Agrotrade agricultural holding companies in Sumy and Chernihiv regions have completed the corn harvesting campaign on an area of about 6.5 thousand hectares, the company’s press service reported on its Facebook page.
According to the report, corn in the 2024 season had high quality indicators, in particular, lower than usual moisture content. It is at the baseline level or slightly (by 1-2%) higher than that. As for the yield of this grain, it was higher than planned.
“The price of corn on the market is much higher than last year and continues to grow. Given this, the crop is economically attractive this year,” said Oleksandr Ovsyanyk, Director of Agrotrade’s Agricultural Department.
He predicts that the market will react to such price trends and next year Ukrainian farmers will again allocate a significant part of their fields to corn.
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.
