The agreement was signed by the regional government and the company "Vologda сыры2 at an investment forum in Sochi, reports local news service. The volume of investments into the project will amount to 350 million rubles. Thanks to the advent of the enterprise in Leskovo is to create 50 new jobs.

"The plant will be equipped with modern high-tech equipment, which allows to obtain products that meet high quality standards and, importantly, affordable to the mass consumer. The planned volume of production - more than 3.5 thousand tons of cheese and 146 tons of oil per year. Note that the raw materials for the plant, and it is about 100 tons of milk per day, will supply regional agricultural, with them, the development Corporation has already conducted the relevant negotiations", — said CEO of the development Corporation of the Vologda region Oksana Yakovleva.

Today in the Vologda region produced 2.5 thousand tons of cheese. Over the past two years, this figure had grown several times, but this volume is not enough to close the needs of the cheese of its own production.

"I am confident that in the face of the company "Vologda cheese" we have found a reliable long-term partner. Signed today a Protocol of intentions affect such an important direction for the development of the Vologda region, as the food processing industry. There is no doubt that together implemented within the framework of this Protocol, projects will be aimed at creation of favorable economic, investment and social climate of the region, its stable and dynamic development", — said the Deputy head of the region Alexey Kozhevnikov.