A US-based consortium of Americans, Canadians and Israelis is starting to build a facility for the cultivation of ten special algae species used as pharmaceutical industry inputs on a 9-ha abandoned fish-breeding pond near the Village of Pomen, Rousse Regional Vice Governor Peter Daskalov said on Sunday.

He made the statement after a representative of the US investor conferred in Rousse with Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Simeon Djankov to inform the Government of their investment project.

Talks have already been held with the Mayor of Dve Mogili Municipality, which exercises jurisdiction over Pomen.