Dairy products plant with a capacity of 150,000 litres per day opens in Yerevan

YEREVAN, 24 May. /ARKA/. A modern dairy plant of Yeremyan Projects Company was put into operation in Yerevan today. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan attended the opening, the government press service reported.

According to officials, the construction of the plant started within the framework of a large investment project after the government, the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) and Yeremyan Projects signed a cooperation agreement to ensure food security and sustainable economic development of Armenia's agro-industrial sector.

The plant includes 2 hectares of production areas: 2,500 square metres of warehouses, 1,000 square metres of refrigerated warehouses, 6,000 square metres of milk production workshop, laboratories and a research centre.

The milk processing capacity is 150 thousand litres per day. The plant will increase production capacity, create new types of products and export them to international markets.

In October 2023, Armenia's first world-class agro-industrial complex "Yeremyan Projects" opened in Tashir community of Lori region.

EDB allocated $32 million for the project, and the total project budget totalled $43.5 million. The project was the first step in the practical implementation of the trilateral memorandum signed in August 2022. -0-

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