Eurodon, a Russia’s leading poultry producer, reported on the intention to liquidate its parent flock in the amount of 34,000 birds and carry out a complete sanation of its production sites, due to the ongoing outbreaks of bird flu, which have led to losses of about 1.6 million turkeys since 2016. With this measure Eurodon expects to reduce the...

Privat Agroholding, a Ukraine-based agroholding that specializes in crop, milk and meat production, for years has been rather discreet, revealing no information about its operations. Anatoliy Ishchenko, a former CEO at Privat Agroholding (from 2010 to 2017), and currently field director at Kernel, has shared his experience of managing Privat...

Astarta Group, a Ukrainian leading producer of crops, sugar and milk, signed a preliminary agreement on the acquisition of a grain elevator with a total capacity of 62,000 tonnes in the Khmelnytskyi region of Ukraine. With this purchase, the company will increase its total grain storage capacity by 15% to 434,000 tonnes of one-time storage. So far...

Damate Group, a Russia-based agroholding, is to enter the Chinese market for turkey meat and dairy products. In particular, two subsidiaries of Damate Group, PenzaMolInvest enterprise and Penza Dairy Plant enterprise, were authorized by the China General Administration of Customs to supply turkey meat and dairy products to China. Damate intends to...

AgroGeneration, an agroholding operating 110,000 hectares in five regions of Ukraine, sold the land lease rights for 28,500 hectares of its farmland area in the Zhytomyr and Ternopil regions of Ukraine, which accounts for 27% of the total farmland area of the company. The total value of the transaction reached € 19 million.

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AgroInvestGroup, a Ukrainian agroholding operating 30,000 hectares of farmland and 20 elevators in the Odessa region, might be on the verge of bankruptcy. As reported by the company’s creditors, AgroInvestGroup piled up $ 70 million of debt and stopped repaying it. The company’s management dismissed the personnel while the owner of the company...

Grain Alliance, a Ukraine-based agroholding, plans to double its grain storage capacity in the nearest future. For now the company operates 53,000 hectares and four grain elevators with a total capacity of 162,000 tonnes. Grain Alliance’s business strategy aiming to extend its farmland area is the key driver behind increasing storage capacities.

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