Winter rapeseed sowing is about to begin! Get ready for the season with a new certified free online course from AgriAcademy and Astarta-Kyiv agricultural holding – “Winter rapeseed. Cultivation Technology.” This professionally structured online course, developed with the participation of leading experts from the Astarta-Kyiv agro-industrial holding, provides systematic knowledge for effective planning and management of this crop.
Who will find it useful:
What the course includes:
Register now: “Winter rapeseed. Growing technology”
The course is designed as an interactive presentation in Ukrainian. Upon completion of the course and successful passing of the test, participants will receive a certificate.
Course authors:
Volodymyr Filimonov – Chief Plant Protection Agronomist at Astarta-Kyiv, scientist, practitioner, graduate of Uman Agricultural University and postgraduate student at the Institute of Agriculture of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine.
Methodological team: Olga Veiler (interactive content), Svitlana Semenyuk (methodologist).
Organizational information:
Like all AgriAcademy educational products, the new course is free of charge. The materials are available for study online at any time and include a certificate upon successful completion of the course.
Professional development is an investment with a predictable return, and AgriAcademy offers training that works for profit.
Registration is now open: “Winter rapeseed. Growing technology”
Don’t delay — a high yield starts with the decisions you make today!
As a reminder, in 2024, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Astarta-Kyiv agricultural holding signed a partnership agreement on the development of distance learning for Ukrainian farmers. The partnership will see the creation of 25 online courses on the cultivation, storage, and processing of field crops.
AgriAcademy is a free online training platform for agricultural workers and students of agricultural educational institutions, launched by the EBRD in December 2022 as part of its food security support program in Ukraine. Its goal is to strengthen the competitiveness and sustainable development of agriculture, which has suffered significant losses due to the war.
Today, the platform offers 25 online courses – more than 300 hours of practical training in agronomy, management, technology, processing, storage, and more. Each course includes knowledge testing and certification of participants.
The platform is created and managed (including course development, training tours, etc.) with the support and funding of the EBRD, as well as:
Astarta-Kyiv is a vertically integrated agro-industrial holding company in Ukraine, a publicly traded European company that conducts socially responsible business and produces food products for global markets. The company was founded in 1993 by Viktor Ivanchyk, who remains its majority owner and CEO. Since 2006, Astarta’s shares have been listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.
Main activities:
In the field of digital innovation, Astarta has created its own IT company, AgriChain, which develops comprehensive digital solutions for agribusiness management.
Astarta’s business philosophy is based on the principles of sustainable development, partnership values, and responsibility.
The company’s team is creating an ecosystem of responsible partnership that brings together the resources, capabilities, and efforts of Ukrainian businesses and proactive members of society, as well as international partners, including foreign governments, embassies, and foreign companies. The goal is to promote the psychosocial and economic resilience and self-awareness of Ukrainians.
AgriAcademy, a professional online education platform for Ukrainian agribusiness, has added two new free courses for farmers, created by experts from the Astarta-Kyiv agro-industrial holding. In June 2025, new training modules dedicated to the biological characteristics of corn and corn cultivation technologies became available on the AgriAcademy platform.
Course 1: “Corn. Biological characteristics of the crop”
The aim of the course is to provide farmers with a systematic understanding of:
Course 2: “Corn. Cultivation technology”
The aim of the course is to develop practical knowledge of agricultural technologies:
Both courses were developed by Pavlo Perkhalo, an experienced agronomist with over 10 years of practice at Astarta. Methodologist Svitlana Semenyuk and interactive materials designer Olga Veiler also contributed to the development of the courses.
Like all educational products on AgriAcademy, the new courses are free, available online at any time, and include a certificate upon successful completion.
As a reminder, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and Astarta-Kyiv agricultural holding signed a partnership agreement in 2024 to develop distance learning for Ukrainian farmers.
The partnership provides for the creation of 25 online courses on the cultivation, storage, and processing of field crops.
In addition to the new training modules, previously created courses are also available on the platform: “Sunflower. Biological characteristics” and “Sunflower. Cultivation technology”.
AgriAcademy – training for Ukrainian farmers that is changing the industry
AgriAcademy is a free online training platform for agricultural workers and students of agricultural educational institutions, launched by the EBRD in December 2022 as part of its food security support program in Ukraine.
Its goal is to strengthen the competitiveness and sustainable development of agriculture, which has suffered significant losses due to the war.
Today, the platform offers 25 online courses — 300 hours of practical training in agronomy, management, technology, processing, storage, and more. Each course includes a knowledge test and certification for participants.
The platform is created and managed (including course development, study tours, etc.) with the support and funding of the EBRD, as well as:
We invite farmers to register on the platform and take practical courses at the link: https://agriacademy.org/courses-catalog
Astarta-Kyiv is a vertically integrated agro-industrial holding in Ukraine, a public European company that conducts socially responsible business and produces food products for global markets.
The company was founded in 1993 by Viktor Ivanchyk, who remains its majority owner and CEO. Since 2006, Astarta’s shares have been listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.
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