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29 January 2019
Agrain: business plans for 2019
News -Agrain, an agroholding operating 110,000 hectares in six regions of Ukraine, shared its business plans for the year 2019. The company will continue renewing its agricultural machinery park and enhance the efficiency of its farmland use. Also, Agrain intends to reduce the number of cars rented and cover the needs for road transport on its own by...
29 January 2019
Ukrlandfarming invests $ 71,500 in its feed mill
News -Ukrlandfarming, one of Ukraine’s largest agroholdings, invested UAH 2 million ($ 71,500) in the new equipment for its feed mill Vesna 21 in the Khmelnytskyi region. Vesna 21 produces about 200,000 tonnes of compound feedstuff per year for all the major poultry farms of the Avangard holding, a structural subdivision of Ukrlandfarming. Previously,...
28 January 2019
JBS and BRF to lose positions on Saudi Arabia’s poultry market
News -JBS and BRF, the world’s largest meat producers, have reportedly been affected by an import ban imposed by the authorities of Saudi Arabia. In particular, Saudi Arabia has revoked the certification of five Brazilian meat plants, including the divisions of the abovementioned companies. In 2018, Saudi Arabia was top importer of Brazilian poultry with...
28 January 2019
STEFAN MANN: EVIDENCE OF RESPONSIBLE LARGE-SCALE LAND ACQUISITIONS IS RATHER RARE. BUT IT EXISTS AND WE SHOULD NOURISH IT!
Opinion -The lines between deontological and utilitarian ethics have recently become increasingly blurred in many instances. However, the differences between the two approaches still seem to be irreconcilable with respect to large-scale land acquisitions (LSLA). Norms-based deontologists label LSLA as ‘land grabbing’ pointing to detrimental effects such as...
25 January 2019
Merci Trade to lose $ 1.7 million due to FMD infection
News -Merci Trade, a Russia-based agroholding engaged in pork production, detected an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) at its farm and slaughterhouse in the Primorsky region. So far the livestock losses amount to 5,000 pigs, while the total damages from the FMD outbreak are estimated at RUB 112 million ($ 1.7 million). The farm’s total livestock...
24 January 2019
SALIC acquired 66% of United Farmers Holding Group
News -Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Company (SALIC) has acquired 66% of United Farmers Holding Company (UFHC) by purchasing the stakes of Saudi-based agri-food companies AlMarai and SGAF. UFHC owns a major stake in the agroholding Continental Farmers Group that operates 45,000 hectares in Western Ukraine. Recently, SALIC has acquired one...
24 January 2019
AgroGeneration to sell five of its agricultural enterprises
News -AgroGeneration, an agroholding operating 110,000 hectares in five regions of Ukraine, plans to sell five of its agricultural enterprises located in the Zhytomyr, Lviv, Ternopil and Kharkiv regions of Ukraine, with a total farmland area of 30,000 hectares. For now, AgroGeneration is negotiating the terms of sale with several companies, not widely...
23 January 2019
John Shmorhun: Decision-making in AgroGeneration is organized bottom up
Opinion -John Shmorhun, President of the France-based agroholding AgroGeneration that operates 110,000 hectares of farmland in Ukraine, tells about decision-making, management autonomy, business performance and collaboration with small farms in his interview to Landlord.ua.
Vertically integrated agroholdings are typical of Ukrainian agriculture. However,...
22 January 2019
Svarog West Group increased its fruit storage capacity
News -Svarog West Group, an agroholding operating 80,000 hectares in the Khmelnytskyi and Chernivtsi regions of Ukraine, has increased the fruit storage capacity at its Bukovinsky Sad subsidiary in the Chernivtsi region to 9,800 tonnes. In November 2018, the company completed the construction of a refrigerator with adjustable gaseous medium and storage...
22 January 2019
EkoNiva to invest $ 135 million in business development
News -Sibirskaya Niva, a subsidiary of the EkoNiva agroholding, the largest Russian milk producer, is launching the construction of two cattle breeding farms in the Novosibirsk region of Russia. The total worth of investment project is RUB 9 billion ($ 135 million). The total capacity of each farm will reach 3,500 forage cows while the total production...