With a total of over 6,000 square meters, an implementation period of 10 months, and more than EUR3,7m in investments, The Continental Farmers Group’s potato storage facility construction in the village of Chukva (Sambir District, Lviv Oblast) has been completed.
The potato storage facility can store 16,000 tons of harvested potatoes at any given time and is one of the largest spud storage facilities in Ukraine. It has been constructed above ground and it is split into six chambers, each one having the capacity to store 2,650 tons of potatoes. Potatoes are stored in bulk and may be stored at the facility for up to 10 months without any loss in quality.
“Continental is one of the leading potato producers in Ukraine and we consider this field of operations as one of our strategic priorities. Each year, we grow potatoes on a land area of two thousand hectares and we also are improving the technologies and expanding our production facilities all the time. After putting the new facility in the village of Chukva into operation, our Company may store one-time over 100 thousand tons of potatoes and supply them to our buyers during virtually the entire year, ensuring consistently high quality of the potato,” Georg von Nolcken, Continental Farmers Group CEO, commented.
The Continental Farmers Group grows chips, seed, and table potato varieties. The overall area used for growing potatoes in this production season is 1,800 hectares. The Company uses modern storage facilities in the Ternopil and Lviv Oblasts that have the capacity of 103,000 tons to store the harvested potatoes. The Company’s assets also include its starch factory.
