| Over
the past year, the Kisvárda poultry processing facility
witnessed miraculous events: After Master Good Group acquired
the facility and the storage area was pulled down and rebuilt,
trial operation commenced on 1st of March. By the official
opening in May, all departments of the facility worked to
full capacity. That has remained unchanged ever since because
demand for poultry products is so high that not a single
kilogram of poultry has to be warehoused.
The company has purchased and applies cutting edge technology,
making the plant Central and Eastern Europe’s most modern
and most efficient poultry slaughtering, cutting and cooling
facility.
Constructions cost 285 million HUF and the processing technology,
336 million HUF. Of the total amount, 100 million HUF was
provided by the Regional Development Fund. Subsidies from
other programmes and the county were also received for the
implementation.
Master Good Group has facilities in 21 towns and villages
in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County alone, which are added
to by others in Hajdú-Bihar County. The facility in Kisvárda
is not merely a slaughter-house, but an essential part of
an integrated system. The Group grows feed crops on more
than 5,000 hectares of land, of which 80 thousand tonnes
of feed is produced. Poultry feeding is performed in the
frame of an integration that comprises 600 farmers.
The Kisvárda project created 507 jobs, which is more than
the number of employees of the former owner of the plant.
According to the Management’s plans, the improvements are
not finished yet: next year they plan to double production,
which would be no small deed considering that their current
sales income amounts to 18 billion HUF.
According to László Kordás, Under-secretary, the Kisvárda
project is exemplary because it was implemented by the pooling
of governmental funds and private capital, it serves a good
cause because it creates jobs, and it also provides locals
with prospects and secure livelihood. The main priorities
of the Ministry now are the modernization of the Ministry’s
regional agencies and the support of enterprises. In addition,
the Ministry intends to pay even more attention to the education
and re-education of employees. In regions like Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg,
where unemployment is higher than the national average,
they encourage the implementation of development projects
with the help of EU grants, domestic funds and the enterprises’
own capital. Mr Kordás was pleased to hear that Master Good
Group plans to employ as many as 1,200 people in its Kisvárda
facility in a few years’ time.
Magyar Mezőgazdaság / 11 May 2005 |
