The ranking, prepared by Russian analytics company INFOLine, discloses the top ten Russia-based agroholdings in 2018, based on revenue. The total turnover of the listed companies increased 4.7% to $ 9.65 billion in 2018 excluding VAT as compared to 2017.

Miratorg, the Russia’s leading producer of meat and crops, is at the top of the list with $...

Agroton, a Ukraine-based agroholding, reports a net profit of $ 3.28 million in the first half of 2019, a 72% decrease as compared to the same period in 2018. Gross profit reduced 44% to $ 3.89 million, operational profit decreased by $ 5.77 million to $ 198,000. At the same time, revenue rose 7.3% to $ 17.9 million. Agroton operates 110,000...

HarvEast, one of the biggest agricultural companies in Ukraine, plans to expand irrigated farmland from current 1,600 hectares to 5,000 hectares. HarvEast launched its irrigation program in 2017. The initial investment amounted to $ 2,500-3,000 per hectare. In the last few years, the company expanded the irrigated area by 1,240 hectares. According...

Rusagro, one of the largest Russian agroholdings, has completed the harvesting campaign of winter crops on a total area of 232,000 hectares in the Belgorod, Tambov, Kursk, Oryol and Saratov regions of Russia. The company harvested 900,000 tonnes of grains, a 3% increase as compared to the previous year. This figure includes 712,000 tonnes of wheat...

Russkoe Pole, a Russia-based agroholding, plans to launch duck meat production. For this purpose, the company will redesign its broiler farm Tsentralnaya in the Vladimir region of Russia into a duck farm within the next two years. Currently, the farm maintains 35,000 ducklings and 600,000 broilers. Russkoe Pole plans to invest $13.55 million in the...

Russia’s Damate Group plans to increase its annual milk production 33% to 43,000 tonnes at its dairy farm in the Tyumen region by late 2019. In January-July 2019, the farm produced 25,100 tonnes of milk, a 167% increase as compared to the same period of the last year.

The key factors behind production increase are the growth in livestock...

EkoNiva, the largest Russian producer of raw milk and a subsidiary of German Ekozem-Agrar, wants to build three dairy farms in the Samara region of Russia. The volume of investment is estimated at $ 180 million. The key driver behind such decision is EkoNiva’s plan to increase annual milk production to 1 million tonnes by 2020. Also, the company...

Russian largest poultry meat producer Cherkizovo Group intends to acquire Rovensky Broiler, a subsidiary of Prioskolye Group agroholding. The total production volume of Rovensky Broiler is 70 million poultry eggs per year. The transaction value is estimated at $ 22.8-38.1 million.

With this purchase, Cherkizovo’s annual egg production will reach...

Rusagro, a Russia-based agroholding, reports to have acquired a 22.5% stake in Agro-Belogorye, a Russian third largest pork producer with a 5% share on the Russian pork market in 2019. The transaction value is estimated at $ 411.5 million. With this purchase, Rusagro expects to increase its pork production.

Agro-Belogorye was founded in 2007. The...