In 2024, Agrotrade agricultural holding exported more than 450 thsd tonnes of grain, of which the share of its own agricultural products amounted to 230 thsd tonnes, and third-party producers – 227 thsd tonnes, the press service of the agricultural holding reported.
According to the report, most of the grain was exported to Turkey, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, and Belgium. A partnership project with other suppliers allowed the company to expand its geography: for the first time, it shipped 54.5 thsd tonnes of wheat to Bangladesh.
“2024 was one of the most difficult years for the Ukrainian agricultural sector. The main challenges included a reduction in grain production, difficulties in finding margins, as well as constant air alerts, power outages and destroyed transportation routes due to missile attacks. Sometimes we had to change our plans drastically: look for places to store grain or adapt logistics in a short time. However, even in such conditions, we remained flexible and fully fulfilled our obligations to our customers,” said Andriy But, Director of Foreign Economic Activity Department at Agrotrade.
The agricultural holding specified that in 2024, corn and wheat were in the highest demand on the global market.
The active period of the grain trading season will end earlier – in April-May 2025. This is due to a drop in yields and a decrease in grain stocks over the past years, Agrotrade predicts.
The Agrotrade Group is a vertically integrated holding company with a full agro-industrial cycle (production, processing, storage and trade of agricultural products). It cultivates over 70 thousand hectares of land in Chernihiv, Sumy, Poltava and Kharkiv regions. Its main crops are sunflower, corn, winter wheat, soybeans and rapeseed. It has its own network of elevators with a simultaneous storage capacity of 570 thousand tons.
The group also produces hybrid seeds of corn and sunflower, barley, and winter wheat. In 2014, a seed plant with a capacity of 20 thousand tons of seeds per year was built on the basis of Kolos seed farm (Kharkiv region). In 2018, Agrotrade launched its own brand Agroseeds on the market.
Vsevolod Kozhemiako is the founder and CEO of Agrotrade.
