In the 2025 season, Agrotrade will increase its peanut production area sixfold to 33.8 hectares, the company’s press service reported on Facebook.
According to the report, peanuts will be grown as in 2024 in Kharkiv region, where a three-year study will be conducted to understand the patterns of crop development, check the systematic nature and determine the prospects for scaling up in Ukraine.
“The first year was an introductory one for us. We didn’t just grow peanuts, we went through the whole process – from soil preparation to harvesting. It was important to understand how the crop reacts to our conditions: what factors affect yields, how quality changes depending on the growing technology, how it responds to protection products, and what the risks are. We saw that this crop has potential in Ukraine, and based on the results, we decided to increase the sowing area using all the seeds we had collected,” said Oleksandr Ovsyanyk, Director of Agrotrade’s Agricultural Department.
According to him, the first season showed a number of challenges in growing peanuts. Agronomists faced the issues of sowing density, plant protection and choice of care products. In addition, the cultivation of this crop requires a special approach to machinery, so the agricultural holding has developed its own trailed units that help in plant care and adapt the technology to the group’s working conditions.
“This year we will continue the research and check whether the identified patterns are stable,” the agricultural holding promised.
Agrotrade Group is a vertically integrated holding company with a full agro-industrial cycle (production, processing, storage and trade of agricultural products). The company cultivates over 70 thousand hectares of land in Chernihiv, Sumy, Poltava and Kharkiv regions. The company’s main crops are sunflower, corn, winter wheat, soybeans and rapeseed. It has its own network of elevators with a one-time 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.
The founder of Agrotrade is Vsevolod Kozhemiako.
