Since 2021, 8,644 agricultural companies have been registered in Ukraine, while 3,416 companies have been closed, according to the Opendatabot service.
According to the resource, agricultural companies were most actively registered in 2021, when 2,678 companies appeared. With the start of the full-scale invasion, the number of registrations dropped to 1,558. However, starting in 2023, the agricultural sector revived: 1,697 new companies appeared in a year. Between January and July 2025, 869 new agricultural enterprises were registered.
Analyzing data on the closure of agricultural enterprises, analysts noted that the largest number of closures occurred in 2021 (1,070 companies) and in 2024 (685). This year, 536 agricultural companies decided to cease operations.
The largest number of new agricultural companies was recorded in the Odesa region — 612. Next are Kyiv (600), Lviv region (597), Vinnytsia (591), and Dnipropetrovsk (535). The fewest were in the frontline regions of Luhansk (40), Donetsk (101), and Zaporizhzhia (147). However, agribusinesses are not very active in Chernivtsi (120) and Zakarpattia (171) regions either.
The largest number of agricultural companies closed in the Odesa region — 606. There were also many closures in the Dnipropetrovsk (225), Khmelnytskyi (201), Kyiv (199), and Mykolaiv (191) regions. The fewest closures were in Luhansk (21), Donetsk (49), Ivano-Frankivsk (49), and Kyiv (55).
Analysts noted that 1,738 agricultural companies relocated to other regions during this period. Of these, 346 agribusinesses moved to western regions of Ukraine over the past five years. Almost half of the relocators who decided to move west chose Lviv region as their new region for doing business — 166 companies. Rivne (54 companies), Volyn (39), Khmelnytskyi (30), and Zakarpattia (19) regions are also popular among businesses changing their registration.
In addition, a number of agricultural companies that have opened during this time are steadily increasing their wealth. The top five newcomers actively expanding their operations include Farmzaat Ukraine, whose revenue grew 3.3 times in 2024 to UAH 770 million; Niva-Plus, which earned 1.5 times more than in 2023, at UAH 530 million; Agroprotekhnika – 2.7 times, to UAH 392 million, Krasnopavlivsky KHP – 1.3 times, to UAH 308 million, and Agrofirma Malynivska – 2.8 times, to UAH 299 million.
