Agroholding Agrotrade has planted peanuts for the second time in the 2025 season as part of a three-year project covering 34 hectares in the Kharkiv region and 5 hectares in the Chernihiv region, the agroholding’s press service reported on Facebook.
“This is a new region for us (Chernihiv region – IF-U) in terms of peanut cultivation. The soil types, moisture supply, and growing season are completely different here. We are deliberately expanding the geography of our crops to see how peanuts respond to different conditions. This allows us to collect a wider range of data and better understand in which areas the crop shows the highest efficiency and stability of results,” said Oleksandr Ovsyanyk, director of the agro-industrial department at Agrotrade.
According to the report, among this year’s innovations, the company has adapted its peanut protection systems based on last season’s results.
“Insecticides have become milder, with more frequent application, which reduces stress on plants, increases environmental friendliness, and allows for more accurate control of the situation in the field. Fungicide and herbicide protection has also been strengthened to avoid last year’s losses,” the report emphasized.
The first shoots have now appeared on the agroholding’s fields. The next stage is crop treatment and monitoring of crop development.
The Agrotrade Group is a vertically integrated holding company covering the entire agricultural cycle (production, processing, storage, and trade in agricultural products). It cultivates over 70,000 hectares of land in the 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 total storage capacity of 570,000 tons.
The group also produces hybrid seeds of corn, sunflower, barley, and winter wheat. In 2014, a seed plant with a capacity of 20,000 tons of seeds per year was built on the basis of the Kolos seed farm (Kharkiv region). In 2018, Agrotrade launched its own brand, Agroseeds.
The founder of Agrotrade is Vsevolod Kozhemyako.
On May 28, the supervisory board of Odessavinprom PJSC (Odessa region) appointed Oleg Chovgan, who previously held the position of head of the commercial department at Vintrest LLC, as the company’s director.According to a publication in the information disclosure system of the National Securities and Stock Market Commission (NSSMC), he replaced Anton Obrezhi, who headed the company for a year and a month before submitting his resignation.Chovgan does not own any shares in the issuer’s charter capital, has no outstanding convictions for crimes of greed or official misconduct, and has been elected for a term until his dismissal. The beneficiaries of PJSC Odessavinprom are the owners of the well-known Odessa region company Champagne of Ukraine LLC, Vasily Bratdinov and his father Ignat. They acquired the company in April 2023. According to data from the Opendatabot service, in 2024, PJSC Odessavinprom increased its revenue by 20% to UAH 330.26 million, received UAH 18.5 million in net profit against UAH 419,000 UAH in net loss a year earlier, debt obligations increased by 5.%% to UAH 351.74 million, and assets by 14.4% to UAH 292.86 million.
As of June 4, Ukraine had exported 38.505 million tons of grains and legumes since the beginning of the 2024-2025 marketing year (July-June), of which 202,000 tons were shipped this month, according to the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food, citing data from the State Customs Service. were shipped this month, according to the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food, citing data from the State Customs Service.
According to the report, as of June 7 last year, total shipments amounted to 47.734 million tons, including 802,000 tons in June.
At the same time, in terms of crops, since the beginning of the current season, 14.906 million tons of wheat (43,000 tons in June), 2.305 million tons of barley (no exports), 10,800 tons of rye (0), corn – 20.728 million tons (158 thousand tons).
Total exports of Ukrainian flour since the beginning of the season as of June 4 are estimated at 65.4 thousand tons (in June – 0.4 thousand tons), including wheat flour – 61 thousand tons (0.4 thousand tons).
The US Embassy in Ukraine has urged American citizens to exercise caution due to the threat of new massive strikes.
“Russia has intensified its missile and drone attacks against Ukraine in recent weeks, and there is now a persistent risk of significant air attacks. The US Embassy in Kyiv urges US citizens to exercise caution. As always, we recommend that you be prepared to take cover immediately in the event of an air raid siren,” the embassy said in a statement posted on its website on June 4.
Since the beginning of 2025, PJSC DTEK Kyiv Electric Grids has replaced almost 19,000 outdated meters with new smart meters in homes in the capital.
“The energy company is doing this at no additional cost as part of an investment program approved by the state regulator NEURC,” the company said on its website.
The company called the replacement of meters an important step in the large-scale digital transformation of Kyiv’s distribution network—customers will receive accurate electricity bills without having to submit their meter readings every month, and energy companies will be able to manage their networks more efficiently by analyzing the data received.
“Smart meters are a basic element of a modern technological network, allowing it to independently adapt to changes in demand and equipment status,” DTEK Kyiv Electric Grids said.
As explained by the company, a smart meter automatically records electricity consumption readings and transmits them to DTEK Kyiv Electric Grids in real time. This provides an accurate picture of consumption every hour, not only for individual apartments or houses, but also for entire neighborhoods and streets. At the same time, all information from the meters is aggregated and analyzed, which allows identifying peak periods and optimizing equipment operation, as well as forecasting consumption for early reinforcement of network sections.
The smart meter also allows remote diagnostics of the device status. In particular, distribution system operators can detect technical failures or damage without visiting the home or business, which significantly reduces response time.
Data from meters can be integrated with the SCADA energy infrastructure monitoring and remote control system. This allows dispatchers to see the actual consumption picture at all points of the network, automatically locate faults, and avoid emergency shutdowns.
DTEK Kyiv Electric Grids emphasized that the transition to the latest electricity metering devices is an important part of the “Network of the Future” infrastructure modernization project. It is planned that by 2034, all residents of Kyiv will have a smart meter in their homes.
“As of May 20, we have installed 18,969 smart meters for Kyiv residents, and in 2025 we plan to replace almost 47,000 old devices with new ones. Currently, 41% of customers in the capital have smart electricity meters,” said Denis Bondar, CEO of DTEK Kyiv Electric Grids.
Kyiv residents can find out whether their meters are scheduled to be replaced this year on the DTEK Kyiv Electric Grids website. The company explained that smart meters are primarily installed in buildings where the existing meters are reaching the end of their service life.
