OREANDA-NEWS. Lithuania's Arvi Group is almost through implementing the first stage of a €17m project to create turkey meat production in Belarus, the Lithuanian embassy told.

This is a two-state project. During the first stage Arvi has built an animal waster disposal plant on the basis of the Lida veterinary sanitary disposal plant to produce protein and bone flour. The new facility will be launched October 23.

During the second stage, they plan to build three turkey farms to produce up to 500,000 carcasses a year.

The third component of the project is to build a turkey meat processing factory to roll out 6,000 tonnes of ready-made products a year.

Lithuania's Arvi Group embraces 22 manufacturers of fertilizers, fodder, sugar and meat products.