Central Plains Group (CPG) (Lviv region), which includes a modern starch plant, has started the 2025 season, the company’s press service reported on Facebook.
“On March 27, the potato planting season started at CPG,” the company said in a statement.
Central Plains Group clarified that 1.3 thousand hectares of chips, starch, table and seed potatoes are planned to be planted in 2025.
CPG Group started operating in the Lviv region in 2006, and initially grew potatoes on 100 hectares, as well as cereals, rapeseed and sugar beet. In 2021, a potato storage facility with a capacity of 23 thousand tons was put into operation in Lviv region, and in 2022, a starch plant near Lviv with a capacity of 10 thousand tons per year was launched. The area under potatoes averages 1000 hectares.
The main investors in CPG are a group of European potato growers: Mark Laird, Diarmid Johnston, Kate Dawson, Richard Janaway, Alastair Stewart, Oleg Drin, Vince Gillingham.
