Top 10 Russian agricultural landowners 2019
21 May 2019
The ranking, produced by Russian consulting agency BEFL, discloses the top Russian agroholdings in 2019, based on farmland area under operation. In 2019, top 10 Russian agroholdings operate over 5.75 million hectares of farmland in total, a 12% increase compared to 2018. The current largest landowner, Miratorg, managed to expand its farmland 47% to 1 million hectares within a year, leaving the former ranking leader Prodimex + Agrokultura with a figure of 865,000 hectares behind.
| # | Name | Ultimate beneficial owner | Registered office | Farmland in 2018, '000 ha | Farmland in 2017, '000 ha |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Miratorg | Viktor Linnik, Aleksandr Linnik | Moscow, Russia | 1000 | 676 |
| Main activity: crop production; beef, poultry and pork production; production of ready meals; meat processing | |||||
| 2 | Prodimex + Agrokultura | Igor Khudokormov | Moscow region, Russia | 865 | 790 |
| Main activity: sugar production; grain legumes and oilseeds production | |||||
| 3 | Rusagro | Vadim Moshkovich | Nicosia, Cyprus | 650 | 675 |
| Main activity: crop, sugar, meat, dairy, oil and fats production | |||||
| 4 | Agrocomplex | Aleksandr Tkachev | Krasnodar region, Russia | 649 | 644 |
| Main activity: crop production; poultry beef and pork production; production of ready meals; meat processing | |||||
| 5 | EkoNiva-APK | Stefan Duerr | Voronezh region, Russia | 504 | 334 |
| Main activity: crop, dairy and meat production; cattle breeding | |||||
| 6 | Volgo-Don Agroinvest | Sergei Kukura, Aleksei Kukura | Moscow, Russia | 452 | 452 |
| Main activity: crop production; livestock production | |||||
| 7 | Avangard-Agro | Kirill Minovalov | Moscow, Russia | 450 | 400 |
| Main activity: crop, dairy and livestock production | |||||
| 8 | BIO-TON | Vladimir Kirillov | Samara region, Russia | 403 | 350 |
| Main activity: grain legumes and oilseeds production | |||||
| 9 | Steppe + RZ Agro | Vladimir Evtushenkov, Louis-Dreyfus Family | Rostov region, Russia | 401 | 380 |
| Main activity: crop and dairy production; horticulture | |||||
| 10 | Vasilina | Viktor Dimitriev | Samara region, Russia | 380 | 380 |
| Main activity: crop production; flour production | |||||