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Agrotrade has completed sowing winter wheat on 15.8 thou hectares

12 October , 2023  

Agrotrade has completed sowing of winter wheat on 15.8 thou hectares in Sumy, Chernihiv, Kharkiv and Poltava regions, which is 4.5 times more than last year, the company’s press service reports.

According to the report, a quarter of the agroholding’s land bank is planted with winter wheat, which is due to the need to comply with crop rotation.

“This season, we completed winter crops sowing very quickly. We prepared for the work thoroughly – we planned the supply and application of fertilizers in advance and made sure that the required amount of seeds was available in our warehouses. So, apart from the war factor, there were no difficulties. We sowed early, and after the recent rains, we already have the first seedlings, which are in good condition,” said Oleksandr Ovsyanyk, Director of Agrotrade’s Agricultural Department.

As reported, the agroholding fulfilled the overall plan for harvesting winter wheat in the 2023 harvest by 110%.

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.

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