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ROSTOK-HOLDING SEES 25% RISE IN OILSEED HARVEST IN 2016

2 November , 2016  

KYIV. Nov 2 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The oilseed harvest of Rostok-Holding (Kyiv) in 2016 grew by 25%, to 51,900 tonnes.

The company said in a press release that sunflower seeds were harvested on 12,800 ha (12,000 ha in 2015). Some 34,200 tonnes were harvested with average yield of 26.7 centners per ha (29 centners per ha in 2015).

“This year we carried out the works on fields in the extremely narrow period of time. He did our best and reached good indicators for oilseed yield. Average soybeans yield exceeded our target by 1.5 times. In general, this year a historic record was broken for soybeans yield,” Rostok-Holding CEO Dmytro Kypavtsev said.

Rostok-Holding LLC, created in 2010, is a vertically integrated agro-industrial group. It specializes in cultivation and sale of grains, production, processing and sale of dairy products, grain trading.