Agro-Region plans to reduce classical cultivation in its Chernihiv cluster by 60% and increase minimum cultivation by 21% in the 2025 agricultural season, the company’s press service reported on Facebook.
Cluster director Kateryna Moroz noted that the crop rotation for the season envisages a 70% increase in corn acreage, which is three times more than last year – up to 5.9 thousand hectares.
“Last year, we completed corn harvesting in October due to both a small sown area and favorable logistics conditions. This year, we will try to scale up our experience to larger volumes,” she said.
As for other crops, the cluster expanded the area under winter wheat by 16% to 4.1 thou hectares and winter rapeseed by 11% to 2.6 thou hectares.
The Executive Director of Chernihiv Cluster stated that the increase in winter crops helps the division to distribute the workload of the spring wedge of work, harvesting and storage.
“This year we are significantly reducing oilseeds: sunflower by 35% to 2.9 thou hectares and soybeans by 50% to 1.8 thou hectares,” the expert summarized.
Agro-Region owns a land bank of 39 thou hectares in Kyiv, Chernihiv, Zhytomyr and Khmelnytsky regions. It specializes in crop production. It consists of 11 companies organized into four crop production clusters. It has two elevators – Boryspil elevator with a capacity of 73 thousand tons and Miropil elevator with a capacity of 52 thousand tons.
Agro-Region’s annual harvest of grains and oilseeds is up to 200 thousand tons.
In April 2021, the Swedish company Lobiu Sala AB, owned by the former Minister of Economy of Ukraine Aivaras Abromavičius, received permission from the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine to purchase the Swedish Agro Region Stockholm Holding, which manages the Agro-Region group of companies in Ukraine.
