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History

2024
In November 2024, the "Agro-Belogorye" holding became part of the "Rusagro" Group. Dmitry Laburtsev was appointed as the new General Director of OOO "GK Agro-Belogorye". Irina Khodosova, previously the head of the meat processing operations of the Belgorod branch of OOO "Tambov Bacon", took over the leadership of the "Agro-Belogorye" Meat Processing Plant.

In January, the "Agro-Belogorye" Meat Processing Plant launched the production of premium canned meat. The equipment and components for the new workshop are 95% Russian-manufactured. The recipe for the canned meat uses only natural ingredients – pork and spices – excluding the addition of dyes or preservatives. The rated capacity of the workshop is projected to produce 16.2 thousand cans per day, or over 4 million cans per year. The launch of this line created 40 new jobs.

The "Agro-Belogorye" Meat Processing Plant and Trading house reported an overshoot of their sales plan to Southeast Asia by 38%.

For the "Agro-Belogorye" Group of companies, 2024 proved to be the most challenging year in its history. The company had to not only work hard but literally fight for food security, being on the front lines in every sense. Due to the operational situation in the region, unprecedented measures of support for employees and their families were implemented. An operational headquarters and a temporary accommodation point were established. Unfortunately, there were not only financial and production losses but also human casualties. In 2024, 12 employees of the holding lost their lives due to combat actions. Financial and psychological aid was provided to the families of the deceased, and monthly allowances were agreed upon by the company’s management for the children of victims until they reach adulthood.

For employees who distinguished themselves in protecting food security in border territories, "Agro-Belogorye" established the Silver Medal "For Labor Valor". In 2024, 79 workers were awarded this honorary badge.
2023
The "Agro-Belogorye" Meat Processing Plant celebrated its fifteenth anniversary. For its high workforce productivity and significant contribution to the development of the region, the company was awarded the "Labor Valor of Belgorod Region" colours by the Belgorod region Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov. The "Agro-Belogorye" Meat Processing Plant became the first collective in the region to receive such a prestigious award. The colours has taken its honored place in the plant's museum.

The pig farming division shipped over 263,000 tons of products, exceeding the 2022 figure by 2.5%. Nearly 2.2 million heads were processed for slaughter.

The "Agro-Belogorye" Trading house reported a 3.2% increase in total sales volume compared to the previous year (216,000 tons of products). Revenue grew by 12.8%, achieving these results for the first time. The most in-demand products were live pork and semi-carcasses, which accounted for 37% of all sales.

The holding's export division showed a 172% increase compared to the 2022 figures, achieving the best results in the company's history. Vietnam remains the primary export market, with shipments also going to Hong Kong.

The brand "Dalnie Dali" secured second place in two categories of the NTech research company's ranking of the most popular meat brands of 2023. In the “Minced Meat” category, "Dalnie Dali" maintained its second position from the previous year, while in the "Natural Convenience Meat Product" category, it moved up two places.

In April 2023, an automated feed accounting system was launched at six pig farms and the Yakovlevsky Feed Mill. This intelligent system became the foundation for the production program, allowing precise planning of feed manufacturing and delivery, analyzing and forecasting consumption, and ultimately achieving a 1.5% reduction in feed losses.
2022
The Group of companies "Agro-Belogorye" celebrated its fifteenth anniversary and was honored to be featured on the regional Roll of Honour.

The pig farming division of the holding increased the volume of slaughter pig shipments by 2.8% compared to the previous year, delivering nearly 257,000 tons.

The "Agro-Belogorye" Meat Processing Plant significantly enhanced its freezing capacity: a modular cold storage warehouse with quick-freezing units has been expanded by 550 m², allowing for the simultaneous loading of over 2,500 tons of products. Additional shock freezing chambers for large pieces of meat have also been put into operation. The investments amounted to over 300 million rubles.

In May 2022, an additional feed production line was launched at the Yakovlevsky Feed Mill, increasing the facility's capacity from 210,000 to 315,000 tons of product per year.

The capacity of the salvage factory has been increased by 33%. A new cooker has been installed at the facility. To implement an additional processing line, a new building with an area of 1,120 m² was added to the existing factory structure, and a boiler house with an area of 252 m² was constructed.

The first industry conference PROMEAT INDUSTRY 2022 took place in Belgorod, organized by the "Agro-Belogorye" Trading house. The event brought together leaders of industry unions, top managers from the livestock business, major retail companies’ representatives, the banking sector, scientific and educational organizations, marketers, and manufacturers of packaging and equipment for the agro-industrial complex.
2021
The company's key sector – the pig farming division – has once again demonstrated growth: the total sales volume (including breeding stock) reached 253.6 thousand tons in live weight, which is an increase of 3.5 thousand tons compared to the previous year.

The Meat Processing Plant of the holding also showed growth: the meat Processing Plant shipped 151 thousand tons of meat products.

The Trading house "Agro-Belogorye" has expanded its geographical scope of export deliveries by entering the Kazakhstani market for the first time.

Despite challenging weather conditions and a poor harvest year, crop growers also managed to achieve respectable results that exceeded the average for the Belgorod region, with a total gross harvest exceeding 291 thousand tons.

As of the end of 2021, the feed mills of the Group of companies "Agro-Belogorye" increased their production volume by 27 thousand tons, raising the annual output to 720.8 thousand tons.

The newspaper "Nashe Delo" ("Our Industry") is among the best in the international competition. The GK "Agro-Belogorye"’s in-house newspaper "Nashe Delo" became a winner of the international media contest "MEDIALEADER-2021" in the nomination for "Best Corporate Newsletter," the publication was awarded the diploma for "Excellence in the Competition".
2020
“Agro-Belogorye” goes on in collaboration with REC “Innovative solutions in AIC” and became key industrial partner of the research and educational center. With comprehensive support of REC a pilot project for development and implementation of video supervision system based on machine vision started on the base of OOO “Belgorodsky pig farm”. The project is unique worldwide as well: it combines the technology of machine vision, neural networks and augmented reality and should solve the problem of animals’ personal identification.

The holding continues to develop the lean production technologies. The pilot project for energy-efficient water consumption on pig farms enabled to reduce the water flow, and respectively waste water, on 13% on the nursery area of AO “Nikitovsky pig farm”. As a result the decision to scale the project on all 53 nursery and fattening holding areas has been taken.

The Trading house “Agro-Belogorye” stepped up its efforts to engage foreign partners: a specialized section “Export” started to work on the web portal tender.tdab.ru, here all the export volumes are sold. 24 companies from 14 countries have been already registered on the platform tender.tdab.ru at the yearend.

For the first time the meat products “Agro-Belogorye” were sent to Africa – 54 tons pork legs have been delivered to the Gabonese Republic.
2019
The Trading house “Agro-Belogorye” continued to implement e-commerce projects: its own electronic trading platform for wholesale purchasers of meat products, tender.tdab.ru, was developed and put into operation. Main users of the platform are meat processing plants, retail chains and traders. There are about 300 tons products set out on the platform weekly.

A cooperation agreement with the company “Gasprom natural gas motor fuel” is concluded. The partnership should enable the holding transport infrastructure cross over to the natural gas motor fuel.

The Group of companies “Agro-Belogorye” became a member of the research and educational center of international standard “Innovative solutions in AIC”, which was organized in Belgorod region by presidential edict for the realization of national project “Science”. The mission of the research and educational center is to strengthen the country's food security and expand its scientific and technological presence in world markets.
2018
The Trading house “Agro-Belogorye” kick started the online meat product store tdab.shop and own wholesale and retail center.

The group of companies started to build a processing area for raw casings and endocrine fermental stuff. The project is implemented on the meat processing plant together with a Holland company “Van Hessen”.
2017
The main production unit of Yakovlevsky feed mill began to work. Project capacity is 210 thousand tons of pelletized feed annual. After putting it into operation the total volume of own feed reached 700 thousand tons per year.
2016
Production was started at the first of 5 new pig farms under construction as part of the holding's largest investment project. The aim of the project is to increase the pork meat production from 163 thousand tons to 217 thousand tons by the year 2018.

“Agro-Belogorye” holding officially became an exporter. The first shipment of the meat products was sent to Hong Kong. LLC “LTD Agro-Belogorie”, responsible for export, was certificated for supply to the countries of Eurasian Economic Union, meat products from a Belgorod manufacturer were first tasted in Belarus.

A project of purchases digitalization was started. From 2016 the organization of procurement procedures for all companies of the holding is taking place on its own electronic trading platform. In the first year of the platform's operation, it was possible to achieve 15% savings on purchases without losing quality and without reducing volumes.
2015
A new deep processing plant was put into operation. This step made it possible to double the processing capacity of the holding. The plant is equipped with high-technology cooling rooms, automatic buffer store and deep processing area for convenience meat products fabrication.
2014
The crop producers of the Group of Companies gathered 384 thousand tons grain legumes – this is the best harvest for the 7 past years and it is almost 50 thousand tons more than the work program.

A sunflower processing plant with a capacity of up to 15 thousand tons of seeds per year was launched in the Borisovsky area of the Belgorod region. The company produces sunflower oil and high-protein oilcake necessary for the manufacture of company’s own feed.

The hybrid selection center “Agro-Belogorye” was granted the status of breeding and genetic center, became so the first enterprise of that kind in the region and the fifth in Russia. This fact entitled the center to deliver the genetic material all over the Russia for both commercial and purebred production.
2013
The salvage factory “Agro-Belogorye” was opened, it produces meat and bone meal and technical fat for the holding’s feed mills. The salvage factory became a finishing element in the production chain, entitled to bring the pork carcass processing up to 96 per cent
2012
The country's largest facility for the production of alternative energy was launched: the first electricity was generated at the “Luchki” biogas station. The station works on the waste from farm animal production and meat processing. The annual production volume is 19.6 million kWh of electricity, 18.2 thousand Gcal of thermal energy and 66.8 thousand tons of bioactive fertilizers. The electricity produced by the station is enough to supply all the residents of the Prokhorovsky area.

The technical school №23 in Dmitrievka of Yakovlevsky area started the employer-sponsored education at the request of GK “Agro-Belogorye”. The holding levels up the facilities and resources of the school, renovates the dormitory, implements the dual educational system, bringing more practice into the training program. Later on the school will acquire the status of a technical college and open new specialties of secondary vocational education.
2011
One of the largest meat processing plants in the country was launched in Yakovlevsky area with a slaughter line for 250 animals per hour, with possibility to increase the capacity up to 360 animals per hour. There is the full range of technological operations on the plant “MPZ Agro-Belogorye” – from livestock intake to production shipping.

The hybrid selection center “Agro-Belogorye” built in Prokhorovsky area accepted first animals. The hybrid selection center is responsible for the reproduction of purebred animals with genetically guaranteed productivity and disease resistant.

Building of five new pig farms with a capacity of 6.2 thousand tons per year started. The farms are located in Graivoronsky, Krasnogvardejsky and Belgorodsky areas of the region.
2010
At the yearend the “Agro-Belogorye” pig enterprices passed the significant mark by realization of 100 thousand tons of product during the year.

The company “AltEnergo” running under “Agro-Belogorye” assistance set into operation the solar electric plant and wind power generators. The first industrial alternative sources of energy in Belgorod region started near the village Krapivenskie Dvory in Yakovlevsky area. The capacity of facilities is 200 kWt.
2009
The meat processing plant “Agro-Belogorye” launched in Belgorod. The company specialization is the production of cooled convenience meat product in retail package “Dalnie Dali”. The project capacity is 22.5 tons meat a day.

Feed mill with a capacity of 150 thousand tons per year started its operation in Krasnogvardejsky area.
This provided the eastern cluster of “Agro-Belogorye” pig farms with their own feed. As a result, the biosafety of the holding's production chain has reached a new qualitative level, the costs for transportation and storage of crops have been optimized.
2008
The construction of the largest pig farm in Europe, OAO “Nikitovsky SK”, was finished in Krasnogvardejsky area. The project capacity is 9 600 sows and production of 22 thousand tons meat a year.

ZAO "Nucleus", which is a part of the group of companies, was given the status of a breeding plant. This fact allowed the company to enter the market of breeding pigs.

The Trading house “Agro-Belogorye” put on the market cooled meat under the brand “Dalnie Dali”. Semi-finished goods are produced according to the Clean Label principle: they do not contain dyestuffs, preservatives or other additives; the product contains only chilled high-quality meat. At the same time, long shelf life of products- up to 15 days - is achieved due to innovative packaging in a gas-modified environment.

The largest commercial dairy farm in Belgorod region was built up. The investment project was implemented on the basis of “Grayvoronskaya dairy farm”– a construction of a farm for 4 680 animals. The project capacity is 21.5 thousand tons milk.
2007
The Group of companies “Agro-Belogorye” history began on July, 17th , 2007.
Under the leadership of Vladimir Zotov, the holding merged the EBS and EBK companies, which worked separately in pig and crop production. By the end of the year the group of companies consists of 21 enterprises, employing 3 thousand people. A professional team of top managers was created. The holding's infrastructure continues developing.