The world's largest chicken exporter BRF S.A. recalled about 500 tonnes of chicken products due to the risk of Salmonella contamination. As stated by the company, 164 tonnes of fresh chicken were destined for the domestic market of Brazil and another 299.6 tonnes were destined for the export markets of Asia, Africa and Middle East. The recalled...

Promagro, a Russia-based vertically integrated agroholding, has signed a deal with Krasnodarzernoprodukt on the acquisition of the Krasnenskaya agricultural enterprise. Krasnenskaya operates 30,000 hectares of farmland in the Belgorod region of Russia. With this acquisition Promagro expects to increase own production of feedstuffs for its pig farms...

The Globyno processing plant, a subsidiary of the Ukraine-based agroholding Astarta-Kyiv, produced 40,000 tonnes of soybean oil in 2018. In addition, the plant produced 158,000 tonnes of soybean meal and 10,600 tonnes of granulated soybean husk. The company operates an elevator with a storage capacity of up to 42,000 tonnes in the Poltava region of...

Ukrprominvest-Agro, the third largest sugar producer in Ukraine, reports to have completed the sugar refining period with a record high of 2.19 million tonnes of sugar beet processing and 291,000 tonnes of sugar production at its two refinery plants in the Vinnytsia region of Ukraine. One of its two sugar plants, Kryzhopil plant, set an industry...

The Bryansk Meat Company, a subsidiary of a leading Russian meat producer Miratorg, is to supply 5,000 heads of Aberdeen Angus cattle to Agrarian Credit Corporation (ACC), a subsidiary of the state-owned Kazakhstani agroholding KazAgro. The companies signed an agreement providing the option of increasing the supply volumes up to 20,000 heads. The...

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...