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Astarta exported over 870,000 tons of agricultural products in 2025

1 March , 2026  

Astarta, Ukraine’s largest sugar producer, supplied over 870,000 tons of agricultural products to foreign markets in 2025, the company reported on its website.

According to the report, exports of soybean products (oil and meal) increased by 15% compared to 2024. The main markets in this segment were Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Austria. In addition, the company exported sugar to 25 countries, mainly to the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa) and Europe.

In 2025, wheat and corn were supplied to EU countries (Italy, the Netherlands, Spain), the United Kingdom, as well as Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Vietnam.

“Global trade uncertainty requires new approaches. We continue to export and adapt our work through interaction within our partner ecosystem,” said Vyacheslav Chuk, Director of Commercial Operations and Strategic Marketing at Astarta.

Astarta is a vertically integrated agro-industrial holding operating in eight regions of Ukraine. It includes six sugar factories, agricultural enterprises with a land bank of 220,000 hectares and dairy farms with 22,000 head of cattle, an oil extraction plant in Hlobyn (Poltava region), seven elevators, and a biogas complex.

According to the results of 2025, Astarta reduced its total revenue from sales of key product categories by 15.6% compared to 2024, to UAH 21.05 billion, while physical sales volumes of its main products fell by 23.5%, to 1.21 million tons.

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