by Nina Ilchenko, 2000
Visti Krasnogradshchini (News of the Krasnograd District)

The cannery assortment at our vegetable-processing factory exceeds 20 brands. Recently it was expanded by two new brands.

What are these novelties? Pumpkin paste and pumpkin drink. Pretty in color, extraordinarily healthy and wholesome, taste like banana. The only difference is that they are made not from some exotic raw ingredient but from our own homegrown. Nobody here thinks it*s a delicacy. You really should! If you don*t believe me, try it! Soon this drink will become available at our stores. Two thousand equivalent cans have come off the conveyor. There will be 14,000 cans [of pumpkin drink] manufactured by year end and twice as much of pumpkin paste. That will replace squash paste, which disappeared from the retail trade a long time ago.

Earlier, pumpkins were used as fodder for cattle. Now a new application has been found. That is a good example of new thinking. Not in vain Mykhailo Ruban, the factory director, traveled to America [on a CEI Study tour program].

By the way, they will start making pumpkin preserves one of these days, like they promised to our newspaper in an earlier interview.

With interest we were watching the manufacturing process, starting at the moment when huge round pink vegetables are delivered to the shop. It is labor-intensive, because most processes require manual work. For the new production they had to upgrade the conveyor, the steamer, and the packaging machine. Everything was done by their own efforts.

The new products are available in one-liter and half-liter glass jars. They are attractive and appetizing.

The above-mentioned products are not all novelties. At the finished goods warehouse they started again handling pickles and apple juice.

Over past years the factory has not received any complaints from its customers. It makes sense because quality control here is pretty tough. Zoya Gordisenko, the lab manager, and foreperson Seriat Kukhmazova are always in the shop. Victor Kuga, the shop superintendent, provides all the necessary supplies to the employees. Yuri Prikhodko, a mechanical engineer, provides equipment maintenance on a regular basis. The employees do not let them down. Galina Shevchenko, Lyudmila Avetisova, Lyudmila Glushakova, Valentina Plakhotnya work well.

The cannery assortment at our vegetable-processing factory exceeds 20 brands. Recently it was expanded by two new brands.

Earlier, pumpkins were used as fodder for cattle. Now a new application has been found. That is a good example of new thinking. Not in vain Mykhailo Ruban, the factory director, traveled to America.

By the way, they will start making pumpkin preserves one of these days, like they promised to our newspaper in an earlier interview.

With interest we were watching the manufacturing process, starting at the moment when huge round pink vegetables are delivered to the shop. It is labor-intensive, because most processes require manual work. For the new production they had to upgrade the conveyor, the steamer, and the packaging machine. Everything was done by their own efforts.

The new products are available in one-liter and half-liter glass jars. They are attractive and appetizing.

The above-mentioned products are not all novelties. At the finished goods warehouse they started again handling pickles and apple juice.

Over past years the factory has not received any complaints from its customers. It makes sense because quality control here is pretty tough. Zoya Gordisenko, the lab manager, and foreperson Seriat Kukhmazova are always in the shop. Victor Kuga, the shop superintendent, provides all the necessary supplies to the employees. Yuri Prikhodko, a mechanical engineer, provides equipment maintenance on a regular basis. The employees do not let them down. Galina Shevchenko, Lyudmila Avetisova, Lyudmila Glushakova, Valentina Plakhotnya work well.