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27 August 2018
Ukrlandfarming reintegrates abandoned land
News -The second largest Ukrainian agroholding Ukrlandfarming starts leasing and operating farmland plots that were abandoned for about 20 years. Currently, 4,000 ha in the northern part of the country are being reintegrated by the agroholding. According to the company’s managers, the process of farmland reintegration is time-consuming and may last up to...
26 August 2018
Mriya to use mixers for crop protection products
News -Mriya, an agroholding operating 180,000 ha in 6 regions of Ukraine, intends to equip its enterprises with mixing stations for crop protection products. According to the chief operations officer of Mriya, Andriy Grygorov, the first station was launched in May 2018 in the test mode and is now operating at its full capacity. Its total worth amounted...
26 August 2018
JBS survived internal financial crisis
News -JBS, the world's largest meat producer, has recovered from its biggest internal financial crisis and has positioned itself positively in the corporate debt market. In addition, the company benefits from the strong demand for meat in the US and the devaluation of the Brazilian real. JBS went into crisis last year, when Wesley and Joesley Batista,...
26 August 2018
Agro-Region earned $ 500/ha for winter rye
News -Agro-Region, an agroholding operating 37,000 ha in four regions of Ukraine, has managed to profit from poor sandy soils of Chernihiv region, cultivating winter rye. According to the company agronomist, winter rye is a profitable crop with low cultivation costs and high yields. Thus, last year the yield of winter rye amounted to 7 tonnes/ha, allowing the company to make a profit of $ 500/ha from export.
26 August 2018
Belaya Ptica on the verge of bankruptcy
News -The agroholding Belaya Ptica, a fourth largest broiler meat producer in Russia, is in a financial crisis. The agroholding’s suppliers have already filed about 100 lawsuits amounting to RUB 230 million (about $ 3.5 million) against the agroholding’s subsidiaries that systematically failed to pay for the supplied equipment and veterinary...
25 August 2018
Top-10 Russian agroholdings earned RUB 694 billion in 2017
News -The ranking, produced by Russian analytics company INFOline, shows the top Russian agroholdings in 2017, based on generated net sales. Miratorg, a leading Russian producer of meat and crops, tops the list with RUB 125 billion worth of net sales, an increase of RUB 5 billion over the 2016 result. Cherkizovo Group, one of the largest Russian meat producers, generated RUB 91 billion and was ranked second, leaving the agroholding Rusagro with the result of RUB 79 billion behind. The Russian subdivision of a multinational trading company Cargill managed to increase its net sales by RUB 3 billion to RUB 75 billion within 2017 and remains forth in the ranking. The fifth position is occupied by a pork manufacturer Agro-Belogorie with total worth of net sales of RUB 70 billion. The rest of the top-10 Russian agricultural producers were rounded out by well-known agroholdings Komos Group, Prodimex, Agrocomplex named after Tkachev, Belgrankorm and Prodo Group.
25 August 2018
Investment Trends in Large Scale Farming - Mila Kletsky
Opinion -Talking about investments in agriculture, one must differentiate between large scale land deals by means of land appropriation and investments into modernization of the existing agriculture that bring about new technologies, innovative solutions and approaches. Since agriculture tends to be very risky due to unpredictable weather conditions and volatile agricultural commodity prices, investors are reluctant to invest in agriculture. Mila Kletsky, President and Academic Director of Picking Alpha, an international investment consultancy, told largescaleagriculture.com about the trends and developments in agri-food investments with a particular focus on large scale farms.
24 August 2018
Agroprodservice imported 270 purebred hogs from Denmark
News -Agroprodservice, a Ukrainian agroholding engaged in crop and meat production, has imported 270 hogs of Landrace breed from Denmark. As reported by the company, these hogs are to be crossbred to the Yorkshire breed to create an F1 hybrid that is known for productivity of 30-32 live-born piglets per year. At the moment, the hogs are undergoing quarantine at one of the farms of Agroprodservice.
23 August 2018
Agrogeneration to cultivate amaranth
News -AgroGeneration, an agroholding operating 120,000 hectares in Ukraine, intends to allocate 20 hectares of land for amaranth production in 2019 to test the crop’s two varieties – Kharkiv-1 and Lera. As reported by the head of the Association of Amaranth Producers of Ukraine, Oleksandr Duda, AgroGeneration searched for a cash crop that improves soil...
23 August 2018
MHP to recycle treated wastewater
News -Myronivska Poultry Farm, a subsidiary of the Ukrainian poultry production leader MHP, located in the Cherkasy region, is to reuse treated wastewater from broiler processing for business needs. According to the calculations, it is expected to recycle 1,500 cubic meters of treated wastewater per day. Besides, the farm declares that 5,500 cubic meters...