In the Cherkasy region, Austrian farmer Thomas Brunner raises pigs without the use of antibiotics

This was reported by the press service of the Cherkasy Regional State Administration.

Recently, he purchased another livestock complex in the Kamian district, Cherkasy region, in the reconstruction of which he is going to invest $3 million.

According to the farmer, so far there is only the old building of the former collective farm. It is necessary to make repairs and buy equipment. Now the entrepreneur is already developing a complex in the village. Tomashivka, in the Uman region, where about 5 pigs are kept at the same time, Ukr.Media informs.

"The plans for the next couple of years are to increase the herd by at least 2 times, up to 10 heads. On the basis of the current pig complex, we can increase the herd to 6,5 thousand heads. In the future, we also want to grow 7-8 thousand pigs at the new pig complex," Brunner noted.

At the same time, the farmer intends to build a slaughterhouse at the first pig complex, which will open the prospect of producing his own finished products. Brunner has been working in the Cherkasy region since 2006, when he and his family bought a defunct livestock complex here.