LLC “AIC Astrakhansky” is “a particularly important investment project”. The Company’s scale of agricultural activities is rightly considered one of the reasons for that.
The total area of the Company’s fields is more than 5,000 hectares.
Before transplanting seedlings from greenhouses, the Company’s workers carry out large-scale works which include plowing, chiseling, disking, cultivating and rototilling.
In all its areas, LLC “AIC Astrakhansky” uses drip irrigation, which contributes to the most careful tomato cultivation.
The complex has its own pumping stations, which continuously supply fields with water through pipes whose total length is more than 130 km. And the intake chambers, the total volume of which is more than 50,000 m3, ensure an uninterrupted water supply.
As soon as tomato seedlings in the greenhouses are ready for transplanting, they are transported to the fields and planted with the help of a transplanting machine produced by Ferrari, the famous Italian company.
Throughout the entire life cycle of the plant, fertilizers and water indispensable for healthy fruit development are introduced by means of a drip tape.
The harvesting involves 12 of the most advanced combine harvesters. There are two optical sorters in everry vehicle to "beat off" the unripened fruits. It allows you to select the best tomatoes only.
Loaded vehicles move to the factory where a process of tomato paste production begins.