22 October 2009
Bobruiskagromash assembles farm machinery in Krasnoyarsk krai
MOGILEV, 22 October (BelTA) – The Belarusian-Russian joint company Bobruiskagromash of the Agroselkhoztekhnika Company (Krasnoyarsk krai, Russian Federation) will expand the line of products, BelTA learnt from Vasily Tsarik, deputy head of the marketing department of Bobruiskagromash. Such agreement has been reached during the talks between the leadership of Bobruiskagromash and Head of the Krasnoyarsk Krai Government Edkham Akbulatov, Agriculture Minister of the Krasnoyarsk Krai Leonid Shorokhov and the leadership of Agroselkhoztekhnika. In the near future, the joint company will launch the production of organic fertiliser distributors and hay shredding machines. “The assembly of the Bobruisk farm machinery will allow the region to create new working places and buy the farm machinery cheaper,” Vasily Tsarik noted. In line with the memorandum signed by the two sides, the joint company will produce no less than 50 baling machines by the end of 2009. The joint company Bobruiskagromash was set up on the base of the Agroselkhoztekhnika Company in February 2009. The company produces baling machines PRF-145 and PRF-180. The project is carried out under the auspices of the Krasnoyarsk Krai Ministry of Agriculture and Food. According to Vasily Tsarik, Bobruiskagromash has set up six joint companies in the Russian Federation: in Tatarstan, the Altai krai, the Krasnoyarsk krai and the Zabaikalsky krai, the Vologda and Yaroslavl oblasts. The Belarusian company intends to set up new assembly facilities in the Volga Federal District and in the Southern Federal District. Founded in 1974, Bobruiskagromash was reorganized into a joint-stock company in 2005. Bobruiskagromash is a major producer of trailed and mounted agricultural machines in the CIS and the Baltic states. The company makes over 50 agricultural machines, mainly forage harvesters and distributors and organic fertiliser distributors and also machines for applying mineral fertilisers, roll flax harvesters, trailed vehicles for tractors and some other agricultural machines. In January-September 2009, the industrial output made up Br178.8 billion, up 11.3% as against the same period 2008. In the period under review, the company exported machinery at the amount of $32.6 million. At present it employs around 2,400 people.БЕЛТА