THE AUTHORITIES OF DAGESTAN WILL START RECOVERY OF KIKUNI CANNING PLANT

Juice-producing Kikuni Cannery in Dagestan was declared insolvent back in December 2020. The bankruptcy was previously initiated by the republican department of the Federal Tax Service, trying to recover from the enterprise 3.5 million rubles of debt obligations to the state budget. However, almost no information on the case initiated in 2018 (No.A15-4403 / 2018) was published.

The public learned that the leading enterprise of Dagestan had officially gone bankrupt during the life phone-in, which was first conducted by the head of the republic, Sergei Melikov. In response to a question from Omar Omarov, a gardener from the Gergebil district of Dagestan, about rumors about the closure of the plant, the acting head said that it was not planned to liquidate the plant, although he was declared bankrupt.

It turned out that the cannery had gone into debt for 500 million rubles before 2018, having taken a bank loan and could not pay it off.

All property of the enterprise turned out to be pledged in the Rosselkhozbank. As a result, the activity was actually suspended and an inventory began at the plant. On October 7, an arbitration manager appeared at the plant, and in December the plant was declared insolvent.

It is unlikely that Melikov's words reassured the gardener from the village of Kikuni, who had previously provided the plant with apricots grown on fields of 40 hectares. Perishable fruit will most likely have to be disposed of or sold to another buyer. It is not clear whether the authorities of the republic will help citizen Omarov and other similar gardeners in Dagestan.

Melikov said that the authorities have already organized work on the leasing of the plant equipment and attracting investors, and they have been worried about the fate of the plant since last year. However, it seemed not enough to the acting head of Dagestan. On the air, he decided to additionally contact the persons in charge of agricultural issues so that a recovery plan could be developed.

One could agree with the head of the republic, who positively characterized the quality of factory products (juices and purees).

Until 2018, the plant successfully won exhibitions and worked with leading grocery chains.

However, the modernization of the equipment cost the company too much, having become the reason for its bankruptcy.