Eight steps in Ukraine

摘要

This year has brought the first big landmark for a project in Ukraine that has set itself the target of making a journey of 8 steps. Step 1 has been completed in 2006, meaning the start and operation of a herd of 650 sows and the initial deliveries ofpork to supermarket chains in and around Kiev. The journey in fact started in 1998 when Mr Oleksandr Olekseevich Mostipan, whose previous business had imported Belgian ice-cream to Russia, decided to move to Kiev from the Russian city of Kazan because he saw big possibilities in the reconstruction and development of the Ukrainian agricultural sector. At Pereyaslav-Khmelnicsky, approximately 100 kilometres from Ukraine's capital, he bought a grain storage elevator and feedmill while also renting 2000 hectares of land for the production of maize. From this is established a company called Niva Pereyaslavshchiny which is conceived originally to market quality maize and feed products.