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Construction of a chicken processing plant on U.S. 70 about three miles west of Kinston is under way. Work is expected to be completed by the end of the year, with production to start in January of 2011. Company officials say they also are considering building a plant near Goldsboro. If both plants go into production, it would increase the Mississippi-based company's processing capacity by 30 percent, officials say.