A.G.R. Group, a Ukraine-based agroholding, has allocated $2.3 million for the purchase of imported agricultural machinery. In particular, the company has extended its machinery park with one sprayer, two tractors, three planters, and eight disk harrows. The machinery delivery is expected early next year before the start of the next sowing season....

Kernel, a Ukraine-based agroholding, reports net profit of $204 million in Q1 FY 2021 (July 2020 – June 2021), a 245%-increase as compared to the same period last fiscal year. A key driver behind this result was the growth of sunflower oil sales prices. Revenue rose 11% to $940 million. Gross profit increased $18 to $284 million while...

A ranking developed by Russian consulting agency BEFL discloses the top Russian agroholdings based on farmland area under operation by results of 2019. As for 2020, top 10 Russian agroholdings operate over 6.08 million hectares of farmland in total, a 5.7%-increase as compared to the previous year. The current largest landowner Miratorg has...

Kusto Agro, a Ukraine-based agroholding operating 24,000 hectares of farmland, wants to switch from conventional tillage to no-till technique in its farming operations. The company has used no-till to sow winter wheat this year and wants to sow spring crops using the same technique early next year. This decision was made based on the data from...

AgriVolga, a Russia-based organic agricultural producer and a subsidiary of Agranta Group, plans to construct a dairy farm for 1,200 cows in the Yaroslavl region. The farm will supply raw milk to the company’s local dairy plant. However, milk produced by the new farm will not be certified as organic. The estimated worth of the project is $17...

Agroecology, a large-scale organic agricultural producer based in Ukraine, wants to produce processed organic foods under its own brand. So far, the company has launched production of organic eggs. In the mid-term perspective, Agroecology wants to proceed with dairy, flour and cereals, as well as with meat production. The company operates 8,000...

NOVAAGRO Group of Companies, a Ukraine-based agroholding with operations in the Kharkiv region, has stored 300,000 tonnes of agricultural commodities from local farmers in the harvesting season 2020, which is a record-high result for the company in the reporting period. NOVAAGRO operates eight grain elevators with one-time storage capacity of...

TAS Agro, a Ukraine-based agroholding, reports to have harvested 360,000 tonnes of grains in autumn. Also, the company has completed its sowing campaign of winter wheat (11,400 hectares) and winter rapeseeds (1,300 hectares). At the moment, TAS Agro is preparing for sowing spring crops on farmland area of 48,000 hectares. In total, TAS Agro...

Nibulon, one of the largest Ukrainian agroholdings, reports that its new river terminal of the Zelenodolska branch in Dnipropetrovsk region has received the first 100,000 tonnes of grains since its launch in mid-2020. Of this amount, 82,000 tonnes have been successfully transhipped to 24 freight vessels. The river terminal has one-time storage...

Continental Farmers Group (CFG), a Ukraine-based agroholding operating 195,000 hectares of farmland, wants to improve soil quality with the help of biotechnologies. In particular, the company has started processing its plant-based waste (about 6,000 tonnes annually) into compost and applying it as soil fertilizer. Additionally, CFG uses as...