Ukrspyrt produces 930,000 dal of spirit at 12 plants in Jan-Feb 2015
State enterprise Ukrspyrt in the first two months in 2015 produced 926,000 decaliters (dal) of spirit.
"We will have better results in the end of March as we are gradually increasing the plants' capacities and the number of working enterprises," reads a press release by the Ministry of Agricultural Policy and Food, with reference to Ukrspyrt Acting Director Roman Ivaniuk.
According to the statement, since the beginning of the year Ukrspyrt has launched 12 distilleries out of 41. The largest volumes were produced at Marylivsky distillery in Ternopil region (317,700 decaliters) and Storonibabsky distillery in Lviv region (107,500 decaliters).
As reported, with the reference to Ivaniuk, in 2015 Ukrspyrt plans to keep spirit production at 15 million decaliters at the largest and the most efficient plants. The number of such plants, as expected, is to be 20.
State enterprise Ukrspyrt is managed by the Ukrainian Ministry of Agricultural Policy and Food. Last year the Ukrspyrt distilleries produced around 15 million decaliters of spirit, all of it sold at the domestic market.