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18 December 2019
LNZ Group wants to export corn seeds to EU
News -LNZ Group, a Ukraine-based agroholding operating two seed plants and 80,000 hectares of farmland, is interested in exporting corn seeds to the EU countries. The company expects there will be favorable opportunities for exports in 2020. LNZ Group was established 170 years ago as Ukraine’s first seed plant. In the nearest future, the company plans to...
18 December 2019
Grain Alliance to receive funding from EBRD
News -Grain Alliance, a Ukraine-based agroholding operating 57,000 hectares of farmland, will receive a $ 11.2 million loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). The funds will be invested in increasing the grain storage capacity and renewing agricultural machinery park. Also, Grain Alliance plans to implement the...
17 December 2019
Impact of intensive farming on biodiversity
Overview -Intensive farming is considered to be among the major drivers of biodiversity loss, second only to the loss of natural habitat due to farmland expansion. At the same time, intensification as the outcome of global economic growth and development of new technologies enabled the farming sector to increase yields and produce more food, thus...
13 December 2019
Miratorg expands lamb production
News -Miratorg, a Russia-based agroholding, is expanding lamb production. In the nearest future, the company plans to launch a sheep farm in the Tula region. The farm is designed to maintain up to 50,000 sheep at one time, and the farm’s annual production volume will amount to 3,300 tonnes of lamb in live weight. In 2020, Miratorg expects to launch...
12 December 2019
KSG Agro improved piglet survival rate
News -KSG Agro, a Ukraine-based agroholding, managed to reduce piglet mortality rate 20% at one of its subsidiaries, Nyva Trudova, in the Dnipropetrovsk region in 2019. In particular, the company strengthened preventive measures at its production sites, e.g. vaccination and immunization of sows, improving animal nutrition as well as enforcement of...
11 December 2019
Agromino to extend its storage capacities
News -Agromino, a Denmark-based agroholding with operations in Estonia, Russia and Ukraine, plans to extend its grain storage capacities. The company wants to construct two silos with one-time storage capacity of 8,000 tonnes on the premises of its existing grain elevator in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine. The construction works are expected to be...
10 December 2019
Kernel ready to assist partners with farmland purchases
News -Kernel, a Ukraine-based agroholding, wants to help its partners with farmland purchases after the lift of the moratorium on land sales in Ukraine. In particular, Kernel plans to buy farmland and lease it to the agricultural enterprises that cannot afford land acquisitions for the period of up to 49 years. The company communicated that it is legally...
09 December 2019
Astarta raised milk quality
News -Astarta, a Ukraine-based agroholding, announced that the share of premium milk in the total amount of milk produced by the company reached 80% in December 2019, a 10% increase as compared to May 2019. Increasing the quality of milk will remain among the key priorities for the company in the future. Alongside dairy production, Astarta operates...
06 December 2019
EkoNiva to produce organic beef
News -EkoNiva, the largest Russian producer of raw milk, plans to completely reorient all its beef farms to the production of organic beef by mid-2021. The company wants to get its organic production certified internationally, in particular by the EU. To formalize all the processes, EkoNiva established three new legal entities which are 100% owned by...
06 December 2019
Food safety scandal: 11 former employees of BRF charged
BRF, a Brazil-based and the world’s leading meat producer, has been lately involved in a food safety scandal. Brazil’s federal prosecutors charged the company’s 11 former employees including two former vice-presidents of falsifying the documents and labels between 2012 and 2018 and use of banned ingredients for production of livestock feedstuff as...