Ukrainian sugar factories are capable of producing 2.2 million tons of sugar, but processors are currently unable to sell all their products, so they are maintaining production at 1.2-1.3 million tons. However, this can only happen if domestic consumption returns to pre-war levels and new export markets open up, said Yana Kavushevska, head of the National Association of Sugar Producers of Ukraine “Ukrtsukor.”
“If we have 30 factories that can produce sugar, probably 2.2 million, if we had markets where we could sell this sugar steadily and with some profit that satisfies producers, that would be quite good. This is what we can optimally grow and process. The optimal capacity of existing sugar factories is 2.2 million tons,” she said on Ukrainian Radio.
She noted that the main problem for sugar producers now is export markets, as the domestic market will not be able to absorb the entire volume of production.
“We really hope that the domestic market will recover to at least its pre-war level by 2022. That would be 1.2-1.3 million tons,” Kaushevska said.
The expert clarified that before the full-scale invasion, even after the loss of part of the territories in Donetsk, Luhansk regions, and Crimea, domestic sugar consumption in Ukraine amounted to 1.2-1.3 million tons. However, after the start of the full-scale invasion, domestic consumption fell to 900,000 tons. Thanks to the opening of the European market during the autonomous trade measures (2022-2024 – IF-U), sugar producers were able to supply 300,000 tons to Europe.
“We now have restrictions (on sugar supplies to the EU – IF-U), and accordingly, we need to decide where to send these 300,000 tons,” she said.
The head of Ukrtsukor stated that in 2025, Ukrainian farmers reduced the area under sugar beet cultivation to 220,000 hectares, which is 15.4% less than last year’s figures.
According to her, Ukrainian processors were very disappointed with the quotas for sugar supplies to the European Union, which were announced in the spring of 2025 and were planned at 67,000 tons. Currently, this volume has been increased to 107,000 tons of sugar, but in previous years, deliveries to the EU reached 473,000 tons.
The head of the industry association recalled that in 2024, the sugar industry showed record export figures – over 740,000 tons, thanks to which Ukraine received over $420 million.
A.V. Export Import LLC (Chortkiv, Ternopil region), whose main specialization is currently the production of oil and animal fats, has begun construction of a vegetable oil refinery in the Chortkiv-West industrial park, according to Chortkiv Mayor Volodymyr Shmatko.
“Finally, construction has begun on the first industrial enterprise in our Chortkiv-West industrial park. Six years of work by the team, COVID, a major war, but investors chose Chortkiv! Thank you to the team for such a wonderful result,” he wrote on Facebook on Tuesday.
According to the materials attached to the post, A.V. Export Import plans to build a sunflower oil refining and deodorization plant with a capacity of 50 tons per day in the first stage in 2025, employing 39 people.
The second stage in 2026 involves the construction of an oil bottling plant with a capacity of 54,000 bottles per day and the employment of 38 workers, and the third stage in 2028 involves the construction of a sunflower seed reception and processing plant with a capacity of 150 tons of seeds per day, employing 56 workers.
IP “Chortkiv-West,” registered in October 2019, was established on a land plot of 87.7 hectares, with a declared term of operation of 30 years.
In the summer of the same year, Shmatko presented the concept of the park and announced the readiness of an investor (whom he did not name) to create an agricultural processing enterprise there, investing about $700 million.
According to the Chortkiv City Council, in November 2024, a memorandum was signed between the city council, the managing company IP “Chortkiv West” – KP “Local Economic Development Agency” and “A.V. Export Import,” which was the first step towards the construction of the enterprise.
A.V. Export Import LLC was established in 2017, and according to opendatabot, in October 2024, it changed its main activity from wholesale trade in food products to the production of oil and animal fats. The authorized capital is UAH 20,000.
Currently, the company is owned by Bulgarian citizen Daria Lupashko-Gurevich (50%), residents Andriy Snizhko (25%), and company director Valery Yureskul (25%).
In 2024, the company increased its net income by 4.7 times compared to 2023, to UAH 256.5 million, with a net profit of UAH 4.55 million (UAH 0.58 million), and in the first half of this year, income exceeded UAH 204 million, with a net profit of UAH 5 million.
A.V. Export Import, Chortkiv-West, CONSTRUCTION, FACTORY, oil refining
In the industrial park (IP) “Western Ukrainian Industrial Hub” (Ternopil region), the Babusya Marusya food factory, which produces canned vegetables, pickles, and semi-finished products from vacuum-packed vegetables, has begun shipping its products, according to Dmytro Kysilevsky, deputy chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Economic Development.
“The plant has already reached its design production capacity and plans to produce 650 tons of canned goods in 2025,” he wrote on Facebook.
According to the MP, the investment made by PJSC “Agroprodservice” (Nastasiv, Ternopil region) in the launch of the plant amounted to UAH 45 million.
The construction of industrial premises with a total area of 1,700 square meters and the installation of production lines lasted from 2024 to 2025. The enterprise has created 30 jobs, and plans to increase its staff by 50% in the near future. The plans include establishing export supplies to the Baltic countries, Israel, Turkey, and Italy.
The Western Ukrainian Industrial Hub, covering an area of over 10 hectares, was established in 2022 on the site of a meat processing plant that had been out of operation for over 10 years but retained its powerful engineering and logistics infrastructure. Currently, the park has more than 58,000 square meters of renovated industrial premises with ceilings 5-10 meters high and its own 10 MW substation.
In addition to the Babusia Marusia plant, the Western Ukrainian Industrial Hub industrial park is home to the companies Nasha Ptytsia (chicken processing), Delta Food (sauce production), Ternopil Meat Processing Plant (agricultural processing), as well as a logistics center, whose warehouses are used by six local and 16 relocated enterprises. The IP enterprises provide 860 jobs. At the same time, the park’s concept envisages the creation of 1,300 jobs.
According to data from Opendatabot, until 2020, the owner of Babusia Marusia Food Products Plant LLC was Ivan Chaykivsky, secretary of the parliamentary committee on agrarian and land policy and founder of Agropromservice. The business is currently run by his wife, Tetiana.
Agroprodservice PJSC was established in 1999. As a diversified enterprise, it operates in the Ternopil and Ivano-Frankivsk regions. It cultivates about 45,000 hectares of land. It owns grain elevators with a total storage capacity of 200,000 tons, a feed mill, and a seed plant. It is also engaged in poultry farming (2 million birds), cattle breeding (about 6,000 head, including 2,000 dairy cows) and pig breeding (60,000 head).
The ultimate beneficiaries of PAP “Agroprodservice” are Tetiana Chaykivska (who owns 70% of the company’s shares) and Andrii Baran (30%).
PJSC “Lviv Regional Production Fish Factory” has opened an innovative fish processing plant in Lviv region, according to the press service of the State Agency for Land Reclamation, Fisheries and Food Programs.
According to the report, the plant’s capacity of 6,800 square meters allows it to process up to 25 tons of raw materials and produce 12.5 tons of finished products daily. Both fish from its own farms and imported raw materials are used for production.
The plant has three levels: two production floors and a technical floor where the engineering systems are located. The space is divided into four main areas: ramps for loading raw materials and shipping finished products, “wet” rooms for processing raw, salted, and smoked fish, “dry” rooms for the production of preserves and semi-finished products, and sanitary and utility rooms for personnel.
The plant has implemented international food quality and safety management systems (ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 22000), which will enable the company to not only supply the domestic market but also export its products.
Once full production capacity is reached, 283 new jobs will be created. The company currently employs 82 people. Last year, it produced 1,382 tons of products and paid UAH 6.4 million in taxes to the budget.
Plans include expanding the export line, introducing biotechnologies for waste disposal, creating a related feed production facility, and entering new international markets.
“We are honored to open the largest fish processing plant in Eastern Europe. This is not just a production facility — it is a strategic step in the development of national aquaculture. We are not only investing in processing, but also changing our approach: from farming to delivering high-quality, safe, and tasty end products to consumers. Thanks to modern technologies, we are improving recipes and striving to change the culture of fish consumption in our country,” said Taras Vysotsky, Deputy Minister of Economy, Environment, and Agriculture.
According to him, the ministry will continue to work on promoting the consumption of domestically produced fish among Ukrainians. In particular, fish continues to be purchased at auctions on the Prozorro.Prozori platform for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, penitentiary institutions, law enforcement agencies, etc.
Agroprodservice PJSC has launched a new factory for canning and manufacturing semi-finished products from vegetables in the Velykoberezovytska community (Ternopil region), according to a press release posted on the community’s Facebook page.
According to the report, the new food factory, Babusi Marusi, will produce canned vegetables, pickles, and semi-finished products from vacuum-packed vegetables.
The company already employs 26 people. The plant plans to hire a permanent staff of about 50 employees, including 10 highly qualified specialists. In the future, it plans to introduce modern production automation technologies and enter new markets, including outside Ukraine.
“The development of the enterprise will create new jobs for the community, increase local budget revenues, and make the area more attractive to investors. This will help improve the standard of living and support infrastructure development,” the company said.
PJSC “Agroprodservice” was established in 1999.
As a diversified enterprise, it operates in the Ternopil and Ivano-Frankivsk regions. It cultivates about 45,000 hectares of land. Agroprodservice owns grain elevators with a total storage capacity of 200,000 tons, a feed mill, and a seed plant.
The company is also engaged in poultry farming (2 million birds), cattle breeding (about 6,000 head, including 2,000 dairy cows) and pig breeding (60,000 head).
The ultimate beneficiaries of PAP “Agroprodservice” (Nastasiv, Ternopil region) are Tetiana Chaykivska (owns 70% of the company’s shares) — wife of People’s Deputy Ivan Chaykivsky, secretary of the Verkhovna Rada’s Agrarian Committee — and Andriy Baran (30%).
AGROPRODSERVICE, canned food, FACTORY, SEMI-FINISHED PRODUCTS, TERNOPIL REGION
Swiss company Nestlé has launched the first production line at its new vermicelli factory in Smolyhiv (Torchynska settlement community, Lutsk district, Volyn region), which is the result of a CHF40 million ($50 million at the current exchange rate) investment announced 30 months ago, according to a press release issued by the company on Monday. according to a company press release on Monday.
“The production capacity of the first line will enable the company to produce 5,000 tons of vermicelli by the end of 2025, with a planned increase in production with the opening of additional lines in the next two years,” the release said.
Nestlé notes that the Smolyhiv factory is the fourth factory opened in the company’s 30 years of operation in Ukraine.
“With the opening of the new factory, the company has created a European hub for food production in Ukraine in Volyn, combining the new factory in Smolyhiv with the one already operating in neighboring Torchyn,” the statement said.
According to the statement, the company is expanding its vermicelli production to meet growing demand in both Europe and Ukraine under the Maggi and Mivina brands. The new factory is an export-oriented enterprise: 75% of its products will be supplied to EU markets under the Maggi brand, which will increase foreign currency inflows to Ukraine. At the same time, 75% of the raw materials for production come from local suppliers in Ukraine, with wheat and sunflower oil being the key ingredients.
“The factory’s advantageous geographical location in western Ukraine creates ideal conditions for Nestlé to produce in Ukraine for both the local market and for export,” said Alessandro Zanelli, CEO of Nestlé in Ukraine and Southeast Europe, in a press release.
He added that the factory is a modern, digital, and fully automated production facility.
Ivan Rudnytskyi, head of the Volyn Regional State Administration, recalled that a factory producing ketchups and sauces under the Torchyn brand and a Nestlé distribution center are already operating in the region, and the launch of the new factory has created more than 300 new jobs, and that this number will increase in the near future to more than 1,500 people in the newly created production hub in Volyn.
Nestlé is one of the world’s largest food and beverage companies, operating in 187 countries. It offers a wide range of products and services for families and pets.
It has over 2,000 brands. Nestlé began operations in Ukraine in 1994 with the opening of a representative office, acquired a controlling stake in ZAT Lvivska Kondyterska Fabryka Svitloch in 1998, and has owned 100% of the company since 2018.
In May 2003, Nestlé Ukraine LLC was established in Kyiv, and at the end of that year, Nestlé became the owner of 100% of the shares of Volynholding.
In 2010, Nestlé SA acquired Technocom LLC in Kharkiv, a manufacturer of instant products under the Mivina brand. In 2012, Nestlé Business Service (NBS Europe) was established in Lviv, which is one of seven Nestlé service centers in the world and provides support services to Nestlé divisions in more than 40 countries.
Nestlé’s business in Ukraine includes the following areas: coffee and beverages, confectionery, culinary products (cold sauces, seasonings, soups, instant products), baby and special nutrition, ready-to-eat breakfasts, and pet food.
At the end of last year, Dzanelli reported that Nestlé in Ukraine had increased production by 7-8% in 2024 and expects 10% growth in 2025.
