ARMENIA TO START PRODUCING MOZZARELLA AND MOZZARELLA-PIZZA ITALIAN CHEESE IN SEPTEMBER
Arka News Agency, Armenia
Aug. 30, 2006
YEREVAN, August 30. /ARKA/. Armenia is to start producing Mozzarella
and Mozzarella-pizza Italian cheese in September 2006.
Ashot Tamrazyan, director of Dili farm, told journalists on Wednesday
that the farm also intends to start producing some kinds of Armenian
cheese.
In his words, the farm’s key aim is to produce a pure cheese up to
bio-standards through.
Tamrazyan also said that the farm is going to produce
up-to-European-standards milk. Milk output is planned to reach 3
thousand liters a day.
120 German pedigree cows and German and Italian milk-processing
equipment will make it possible to retain the same output throughout
entire year and will ensure high quality of the milk and dairy.
Tamrazyan also added that 42 million invested in the farm by founders
with assistance of some European banks, laid necessary financial ground
for creating 50 jobs with average salary of AMD 50 thousand ($128).
Dili farm is set up in Dilijan, Armenia, in mid-2005.