Construction of a major greenhouse complex for growing vegetables and flowers has begun in Smolensk region. The head of the region, Mr. Aleksey Ostrovskiy has named the project “an image shaping one to a certain extend” for the region, since nothing of the kind has existed here before.
According to the regional administration press-service, the project is going to be completed by 2022 and will be implemented in several stages. The first phase presupposes construction of two greenhouse of 1000 m2, where flowers and vegetables will be grown intermittently: 5-6 kinds of tulips November to March and cucumbers and greenery, further tomatoes August to December.
The first phase with the capacity of 300 thousand pieces of tulips a year is planned to be launched in the fourth quarter of the year. Next year after the second phase with overall acreage 2 thousand m2 is launched, production capacity will be increased to 1 million pieces.
The project is carried out by an individual entrepreneur who is currently carrying out flower delivery from Europe to Russia. He has acquired a land plot of 6 ha in Gnezdovsky settlement. Project works have been completed and technical documentation for the infrastructure construction has been received; a connection road has been built with the assistance of the administration.
The investor has announced in the meeting with the governor, Mr. Aleksey Ostrovskiy, that flower and vegetable produce will be grown in the greenhouses of local production and their construction will begin this week. With that, he remarked that modern technologies allow reduce heat loss by a third, therefore saving costs on heating.
The investor is planning to plant 250 thousand tulip bulbs by the end of December, they have already been allocated at the Dutch producer. In order to maintain the quality of bulbs, cooling equipment will be installed for storing the produce in accordance with the international standards.
He has expressed an opinion that it is a very perspective direction, first of all from the point of import replacement program implementation (the share of imported flowers in the overall Russian volume comprises about 90) and increase of flower production volume.
Source ria.ru