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Astarta-Kyiv has launched course on winter rapeseed

25 July , 2025  

Winter rapeseed sowing is about to begin! Get ready for the season with a new certified free online course from AgriAcademy and Astarta-Kyiv agricultural holding – “Winter rapeseed. Cultivation Technology.” This professionally structured online course, developed with the participation of leading experts from the Astarta-Kyiv agro-industrial holding, provides systematic knowledge for effective planning and management of this crop.

Who will find it useful:

  • Farm managers planning to expand their crop structure
  • Agronomists responsible for results
  • Agronomy service managers, consultants
  • Farmers seeking to minimize risks and losses
  • Students and graduates of agricultural specialties

What the course includes:

  • Biological characteristics of winter rapeseed: critical phases, light, moisture, and temperature requirements
  • Soil cultivation technologies, optimal sowing dates, crop protection system
  • Key decisions for fall and spring: nutrition, care, desiccation, harvesting
  • Typical mistakes and how to avoid them

Register now: “Winter rapeseed. Growing technology”

The course is designed as an interactive presentation in Ukrainian. Upon completion of the course and successful passing of the test, participants will receive a certificate.

Course authors:

Volodymyr Filimonov – Chief Plant Protection Agronomist at Astarta-Kyiv, scientist, practitioner, graduate of Uman Agricultural University and postgraduate student at the Institute of Agriculture of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine.

Methodological team: Olga Veiler (interactive content), Svitlana Semenyuk (methodologist).

Organizational information:

  • Format: Online, accessible at any time
  • Cost: 100% free
  • Certificate upon completion of the course

Like all AgriAcademy educational products, the new course is free of charge. The materials are available for study online at any time and include a certificate upon successful completion of the course.

Professional development is an investment with a predictable return, and AgriAcademy offers training that works for profit.

Registration is now open: “Winter rapeseed. Growing technology”

Don’t delay — a high yield starts with the decisions you make today!

As a reminder, in 2024, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Astarta-Kyiv agricultural holding signed a partnership agreement on the development of distance learning for Ukrainian farmers. The partnership will see the creation of 25 online courses on the cultivation, storage, and processing of field crops.

AgriAcademy is a free online training platform for agricultural workers and students of agricultural educational institutions, launched by the EBRD in December 2022 as part of its food security support program in Ukraine. Its goal is to strengthen the competitiveness and sustainable development of agriculture, which has suffered significant losses due to the war.

Today, the platform offers 25 online courses – more than 300 hours of practical training in agronomy, management, technology, processing, storage, and more. Each course includes knowledge testing and certification of participants.

The platform is created and managed (including course development, training tours, etc.) with the support and funding of the EBRD, as well as:

  • EBRD Multilateral Donor Account for Ukraine’s Stabilization and Sustainable Growth (donors: Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and the European Union as the largest donor)
  • Republic of Ireland through the EBRD Small Business Facility (other donors to the facility: Italy, Japan, South Korea, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Taipei China, and the United States of America)
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Astarta-Kyiv is a vertically integrated agro-industrial holding company in Ukraine, a publicly traded European company that conducts socially responsible business and produces food products for global markets. The company was founded in 1993 by Viktor Ivanchyk, who remains its majority owner and CEO. Since 2006, Astarta’s shares have been listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.

Main activities:

  • crop production (212,000 hectares of land in seven regions of Ukraine)
  • a network of elevator complexes with a total simultaneous storage capacity of 562,000 tons of grain
  • sugar production (350,000-500,000 tons per year)
  • dairy farming (the largest industrial milk producer in Ukraine – 119,000 tons per year)
  • soybean processing (own processing plant with an annual capacity of 230,000 tons)
  • alternative energy

In the field of digital innovation, Astarta has created its own IT company, AgriChain, which develops comprehensive digital solutions for agribusiness management.

Astarta’s business philosophy is based on the principles of sustainable development, partnership values, and responsibility.

The company’s team is creating an ecosystem of responsible partnership that brings together the resources, capabilities, and efforts of Ukrainian businesses and proactive members of society, as well as international partners, including foreign governments, embassies, and foreign companies. The goal is to promote the psychosocial and economic resilience and self-awareness of Ukrainians.

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