Top 10 Ukrainian land users 2019
14 June 2019 - Latifundist.com issued an update of its ranking of top Ukrainian agroholdings based on farmland area. The top 10 agroholdings operate 2.5 million hectares of farmland in 2019, a slight decrease compared to 2.9 million hectares in the previous year. The largest landowner, Kernel, operates the same farmland area as a year ago. The size of the last year’s top-ranked agroholding, UkrLandFarming, decreased 70,000 hectares.
# | Name | Ultimate beneficial owner | Registered office | Farmland in 2018, '000 ha | Farmland in 2017, '000 ha |
1 | Kernel | Andriy Verevskyi | Luxembourg City (Luxembourg) | 550 | 550 |
Main activity: crop production, sunflower oil production | |||||
2 | UkrLandFarming | Oleg Bakhmatyuk | Nicosia (Cyprus) | 500 | 570 |
Main activity: crop production; meat, milk and egg production | |||||
3 | Agroprosperis (New Century Holding) | George Rohr, Maurice Tabasinik | New York City (New York, USA) | 396 | 400 |
Main activity: grains and oilseeds production | |||||
4 | MHP | Yuriy Kosiuk | Nicosia (Cyprus) | 370 | 370 |
Main activity: crop production; livestock production; poultry production; meat processing, biogas production | |||||
5 | Astarta-Kyiv | Viktor Ivanchyk | Amsterdam (the Netherlands) | 250 | 250 |
Main activity: crop, sugar and dairy production; livestock production; biogas production | |||||
6 | CFG/Mriya | SALIC | Ternopil (Ukraine) | 195 | 165 |
Main activity: crop and potato production; grain storage; seed production | |||||
7 | Harveast | Rinat Akhmetov, Vadym Novynskyi | Donetsk (Ukraine) | 127 | 102 |
Main activity: crop and livestock production; grain storage; mixed fodder production; seed production | |||||
8 | IMC | Aleksandr Petrov | Luxembourg City (Luxembourg) | 123.9 | 129.6 |
Main activity: grains and oilseeds production; dairy production | |||||
9 | Epicentr K | Aleksandr Gerega, Galyna Gerega | Kyiv (Ukraine) | 121.4 | 111 |
Main activity: crop, livestock and dairy production; grain storage | |||||
10 | Ukrprominvest Agro | Petro Poroshenko | Kyiv (Ukraine) | 116.5 | 116.5 |
Main activity: crop and sugar production; grain processing; livestock production |