Miratorg is one of the largest tax-paying corporations in the agrobusiness sector. This is a just reflection of the company's leading position in agricultural production – a company whose plant facilities put out the colossal statistic of more than six hundred thousand tonnes of food products each year. The company's primary production assets are located deep in the Russian Regions, and so the tax each of them pays makes a real difference to the local budgets in those areas.

According to 2017 statistics, Miratorg's annual tax payments went up by over 12 million roubles in one year alone. The development of the company's interregional project to produce top-quality beef has already caused an up-tick in the company's tax payments in the Kaluga, Smolensk, Orlovsk, and Tula Regions – where the company is opening new livestock farms and where Miratorg's arable crop facilities are located.

Our company is Russia's No 1 employer in the agrobusiness sector of the nation's economy – succeeding in providing stable employment and decent salaries despite the difficult conditions in the Russian economy as a whole. In 2017 the company's workforce grew by a total of 14%, now totalling thirty thousand staff. The leading segments fuelling these increases are the Poultry and Beef divisions. In Bryansk Region alone, the number of staff rose by 16%, to more than 8,600 staff.

Average salaries for Miratorg staff during 2017 rose by 6.25%, to a total of 34,000 roubles. In Bryansk Region the salary is 35,000 roubles, while in Belgorod Region it is 32,000 roubles, and 35,000 roubles in Kaliningrad Region.

The average salary paid to the company's staff in Bryansk Region is 35% more than typical average salaries paid by other employers in that region, and continues to make steady increases in line with productivity increases and continuing increases in output.

Miratorg has really created high-tech livestock farming in Russia from scratch – which is now on every technical and output level the equal of world leading producers. We remain sure that creating reliable and pleasant conditions of work is a critical factor for leveraging improved productivity statistics in our business.

From the high-quality buses, which bring our staff to their work at our production facilities, to the modern factories and offices which have been designed and built for the company's operations to meet international criteria for design, comfort and safety, Miratorg is doing everything to make working conditions for its staff the best they can be.

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Our program Generation Miratorg is aimed at bringing young well-trained specialist staff into the agrobusiness sector, and providing them with training and professional growth – and has proved its worth. The number of young people enrolled in the program is continuously growing, as well as the number of partner organisations – agrobusiness-focused colleges, institutes and universities, not just in the regions where our facilities operate, but throughout the entire country.

During the project's operation in 2015, more than 400 students from various institutes and colleges took part. Miratorg collaborates successfully with agriculture colleges and institutes in Belgorod, Voronezh, Kursk, Rostov, Moscow, Bryansk, Kaliningrad, and St Petersburg. In Kaliningrad Region alone, Miratorg plans to offer five times the number of apprentice places available in 2016.

At the initial stage we offer students the chance to get free-of-charge work-placements at the company's different facilities. Another highly successful format is that of Student Teams – in which the students taking part have a further stimulus, in the shape of financial compensation. After this we invite the most promising students from these programs to join our Apprenticeship Program, during which they will be able to become fully involved in solving production issues, and gain real professional experience within a specific work-skill area. Apprenticeships averagely last three months, and those who pass them successfully could be invited to join the company's full-time staff.

Our mentoring system helps our young employees adapt quickly to working for Miratorg – experienced staff members work specifically on training the young staffers for their further careers within the company. Young specialist staff gain valuable real-work experience in a modern high-tech production environment, along with the chance to hone specialist skills in the line of work in which they shine best – whether it be crop farming, livestock farming, producing animal feedstuffs, or meat processing. What's very important is that their work at Miratorg will give them experience of the best world practice, which could open the way for a placement working in one of the world's leading food industry brand names such as McDonald's, Danish Crown, John Deer, or JBS.

Recruits with special training such as vets, agronomists, engineers, food technologists, economists, and HR managers are especially welcome to join our growing company – a company which is continually broadening the scope of its operations not only in Russia, but abroad too.

Miratorg has effectively created a new competency centre in Russia in the specialist production of livestock animals, with a system of professional training which prepares the specialist staff the company needs. The team of operators who work with our livestock on the company's farms is now over one thousand staff – who, under the direction of experienced trainers and instructors enjoy continuing opportunities to increase their qualifications in many areas of operations – such as stress-free interaction with longhorn cattle and tasks like rounding them up, work on horseback, and basic veterinary procedures.

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Miratorg's social policies are not only directed at supporting talented young people – but also at providing help for children in difficult situations in life, and for children's educational and social facilities.

Among the projects which receive ongoing support are the Zhukovsky Children's Centre in Bryansk Region, which looks after 60 orphan children – of whom 15 are disabled. Staff from our Bryansk Meat Company division have already been giving broad-ranging help to these kids for over three years. We help to bring regular deliveries of things the kids need – like school stationery, daily household items, crockery, cleaning products... and food, of course.

Helping the Zhukovsky Children's Centre is far from the only social work done by the Bryansk division of our company. Miratorg is actively helping the life of the Region, by helping rural schools and kindergartens, regional medical centres, organisations working with disabled people and war veterans, as well as lending a hand to develop sport for kids and young people.

This summer was the first time any renovations or rebuilding had ever been done at the Red Poppy Children's Home. Miratorg helped provide insulation for the building's exterior walls, fixed the leaking roofs, put down asphalt around the building, and lopped the branches of some dangerous trees. Miratorg also stepped in to provide internet access for the Zhukovsky Children's Centre, as well as providing a new range of sports equipment the kiddies badly needed. Miratorg has also been doing work in preserving ecclesiastical and historical heritage – by helping with the renovations of the Uspensky Cathedral of the Svensky Monastery.

“Charity work has become a really important tradition for the company, and helping people freely is the best way of spreading good. Our industry binds us to the land, and so we feel we have to help villages to develop education, medical services, preserve their cultural heritage, and their traditions. But the company isn't limited to just support – it actively initiates social and charity projects and programs, to play its part in the development of the social and education spheres. We'll be carrying on and continuing to curate social projects – not only in and around Bryansk, of course, but in other Regions too”, said Mr Sergey Kulinovsky, the CEO of LLC Bryansk Meat Company, a division of the Miratorg Holding Company.

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Ensuring standards for biological safety and the protection of the environment are an essential part of our strategy for sustainable development. Our customers insist upon the highest levels of product quality – which can only be provided using an integrated risk-control system at each and every stage of the production cycle. There are no shortcuts or easy-outs in providing biological safety, especially when considering Russia's complex epizootic situation alongside the stringent regulations imposed on the farming industry by Russian governmental bodies – in the light of which Miratorg undertakes its farming operations.

All of the company's production premises – from livestock farms to meat-processing plants – are equipped with the very latest systems for biological safety, to reduce the risks of transmission of infection or communicable disease. We have a team of top-qualified specialist vets consisting of over 400 people, who are tasked with ensuring healthy and normal growth of our animals. Miratorg's expertise in this area can fairly be considered among Russia's highest – a fact which is confirmed when foreign inspectors come to check on our material assets and make their attestations regarding supply to foreign markets.

The company has an ongoing program of confirming its conformance to international quality and hygiene standards for its output. This is especially relevant for processing facilities working with biological waste, whose correct disposal is a matter of great importance. The company's veterinary & sanitary reprocessing plant in Kursk Region opened in 2015, confirming the company's compliance with the ISO 22000 international standard. The technical processes involved in converting organic waste into safe products – bonemeal flour, and technical fat – is a hugely important element in our system of disease prevention and stopping the spread of dangerous animal diseases.

We have invested 120 million roubles in providing for environmental protection at our piggeries division in the Belgorod and Kursk Regions. Use of cutting edge technology when converting pork production waste into solid or liquid fractions, so that they can then be further utilised, is something which enormously reduces our company's impact on the environment.

Miratorg continues to develop collaborations with industry-specific state authorities and non-governmental environmental organisations, in order to develop and implement best practice in both biological safety and environmental protection – especially when launching new facilities in new regions of operation.

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