Russian agricultural holding SibAgro rolled out plans to build a pig farm in Mongolia to sell finishers to local customers. With a planned output of 18,000 tonnes per year, the farm is designed to grow piglets imported from SibAgro’s East Siberian pig farm in Russia’s Buryatia republic.

The company has already signed an investment agreement with the Mongolian government and is working on finishing the farm’s design documentation. “Our territorial proximity to the borders of this country makes shipping animals fast and safe,” Yulia Shishkina said. She is a branch director of SibAgro.

In 2022, SibAgro disclosed that the East Siberian pig farm expanded its presence in the Mongolian market during the previous years. The farm started exporting pork to Mongolia in 2017 and delivered 10,000 tonnes of pork in total, Shishkina estimated. Every year, the supplies have been growing, and the company intended to pick up the pace, she added.