Miratorg is a leading vertically integrated agricultural holding in Russia. The company is implementing a strategy to increase the production of high quality meat products to fully meet domestic demand and increase export potential. The sheep, as the new direction of the company, effectively complements the production chain and allows to expand the range of products of the holding.

Unique sheep farm planned capacity of 3.3 thousand tons of lamb meat in live weight per year located in the Fatezhsky district of the Kursk region. The pilot project provides year-round stabling of livestock. This technology has several advantages over the traditional grazing on open pastures: the specialists of the farm carry out constant control of the entire production cycle – from breeding to fattening – on the same site. In conjunction with the use of modern technologies for industrial cultivation of sheep allows us to achieve production efficiency at the level of the world's leading manufacturers to ensure consistently high quality meat, as well as the flexibility to adjust the production cycle to the needs of the market.

The first animals - ewes with high genetic status was brought to the farm in March 2018. By obtaining offspring of the livestock on the sheep farm at the end of the year amounted to 21 thousand heads of animals. And in March of this year, the farm received about 12 thousand head of ewes.

"The pilot sheep farm in the Kursk region is the first step in the implementation of a unique large-scale inter-regional project: at the moment the agricultural holding is considering the establishment of new sheep farms of the closed type in several regions of the Central Federal district with a view to increase production to 33.9 thousand tons of products per year", - said the press service of "Miratorg".