As part of a public-private partnership program, trading company Almeida Group LLC has signed a long-term lease agreement for the Bogdanivets Grain Processing Plant (Khmelnytskyi region) and increased its storage capacity by 92,000 tons, according to company director Maksym Volchenko.
“Thanks to the implementation of this project, Almeida Group has already exceeded its simultaneous storage capacity figures that were in place before the full-scale invasion,” he wrote on Facebook.
According to Volchenko, the Bohdanivets Bread Products Plant property complex includes an elevator with a total storage capacity of 92,000 tons, four independent grain receiving points from motor vehicles with a capacity of 3,000 tons per day, two grain drying complexes, a laboratory certified for all crops, railway infrastructure, and a mill with a capacity of 120 tons per day.
During August 2025, Almeida Group LLC carried out pre-season repairs and calibration of all equipment at the elevator complex, assembled a highly qualified team of company specialists, resolved a number of issues related to railway infrastructure, repaired a diesel locomotive, and restored access to the railway.
“As a result of this partnership, the Almeida Group has further increased its presence in the region in the elevator, trading, and logistics sectors, as well as gained another foothold for creating supply chains from producers to European and other export markets,” said the head of the enterprise.
Volchenko added that local producers now have the opportunity to order storage, laboratory control, and logistics services for the export of agricultural products with a full delivery cycle to ports or to European Union countries by land and water at rates that are attractive to agricultural producers.
Almeida Group LLC was registered in 2008. It specializes in the purchase and wholesale of grain crops and international transport and logistics services. It has six regional offices with its head office in Kyiv: in Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Chernivtsi, Uzhhorod, and Lviv.
Before the war, the company used a transshipment hub-elevator in Severodonetsk (Luhansk region). It has now been destroyed. In 2022, Almeida Group built a transshipment complex on the border with the EU at the Vadul-Siret station and resumed trading in grain crops.
In 2023, it built similar transshipment complexes at the Chop station (Zakarpattia region) and the Mostyska station (Lviv region). In 2025, the company took over the management of the Rozdorsky elevator from the G.R.Agro group.
In 2024, the USAID Economic Support to Ukraine Project purchased and transferred 25 new grain cars to Almeida Group LLC to increase agricultural exports.
The beneficiaries of Almeida Group are Mikhail Kudukhashvili and the owner of Levada Agricultural Production Cooperative, Maxim Volchenko.
Almeida Group, Bogdanivets Agricultural Production Cooperative, GRAIN
As of August 22, farmers harvested 27.25 million tons of early grain and leguminous crops from 6.7 million hectares, which is 60% of the area sown with these crops, according to the Ministry of Economy, Environment, and Agriculture.
Last year, as of August 23, 32.02 million tons of grain were harvested from 8.0403 million hectares, meaning that this year’s figures are 14.9% and 16.7% lower, respectively.
According to the Ministry of Economy, 21.01 million tons of wheat were harvested from 4 million 873.1 thousand hectares (last year – 21.74 million tons from 4 million 858.9 thousand hectares), barley – 4.97 million tons from 1 million 304.6 thousand hectares (5.5 million tons from 1 million 399.2 thousand hectares).
The average yield of these crops this year is 4.31 tons/ha and 3.81 tons/ha, respectively, which is 3.5% and 3.3% less than last year’s figures.
At the same time, this year’s pea harvest is already higher than last year’s – 0.58 million tons from 258,600 hectares compared to 0.468 million tons from 207,600 hectares, and the yield is 12.8% higher at 2.5 tons/hectare.
Other grains and legumes were threshed on an area of 260.6 thousand hectares, with a yield of 685.3 million tons (0.83 million tons).
It is noted that among the leaders are, in particular, the Odessa region, which harvested 3.44 million tons from an area of 1 million 083.4 thousand hectares, Kirovohrad region harvested 2.20 million tons from an area of 533.4 thousand hectares, and Vinnytsia region harvested 2.385 million tons from an area of 423.7 thousand hectares.
According to the ministry, as of August 22, the rapeseed harvest amounted to 3.163 million tons from an area of 1 million 283 thousand hectares, while last year on August 23, it amounted to 3.36 million tons from 1 million 227.7 thousand hectares, and the average yield is 7% lower than last year’s on this date and amounts to 2.5 tons/ha.
Sunflower harvesting has begun in the Dnipropetrovsk and Odesa regions, and soybean harvesting has begun in the Kharkiv region.
As reported, in its Inflation Report published at the end of July, the National Bank of Ukraine lowered its forecast for this year’s grain harvest from 61.7 million tons to 57.9 million tons, and for oilseeds from 22 million tons to 21 million tons.
The NBU recalled that last year, the grain harvest in Ukraine fell to 56.2 million tons from 59.8 million tons in 2023, while oilseeds fell from 21.7 million tons to 20 million tons.
According to forecasts by Deputy Minister of Economy Taras Vysotsky, this year’s grain harvest will be around 56 million tons, the same as last year.
The total forecast for wheat production in Ukraine for the 2025-2026 marketing year (July-June) is about 21 million tons, of which 10.3 million tons will be food wheat, while the harvest of grade 1-2 grain, which is needed to produce bread-making flour, is forecast at 1.7 million tons, according to Rodion Rybchinsky, chairman of the Ukrainian Millers’ Union.
“We are already seeing growing competition between processors and exporters for high-quality wheat, while farmers, who have the opportunity to store grain for several years, are in no hurry to sell it. This creates risks for price stability and the availability of flour and bakery products for consumers,“ the association’s press service quoted him as saying at the ”Khleb.ua” conference on its Facebook page.
Rybchynsky drew attention to the situation with rye. Domestic production of this crop in Ukraine does not fully cover domestic demand. In 2025/26 MY, flour millers will have to import about 9,000 tons, while in the previous season this figure was 1,600 tons. The expert emphasized that such an increase in imports indicates the formation of a persistent shortage of raw materials.
“The current production structure and behavior of farmers may lead to further increases in flour prices. While the shortage of first- and second-class raw materials already determines the industry’s prospects, the issue of food grain availability poses risks to the country’s food security,” stressed the head of the Ukrainian Millers Association.
Gadz-Agro LLC (Ternopil region), the agricultural division of the OKKO Group, has completed the first stage of harvesting, the company’s press service reported on Facebook.
According to the report, in the 2025 season, Gadz-Agro achieved a yield of winter rapeseed at 3.87 tons/ha, winter barley – 9.23 tons/ha, winter wheat – 8.63 tons/ha, spring barley – 6.58 tons/ha, spring wheat – 6.95 tons/ha, and peas – 4.61 tons/ha.
“The harvest is complete! It was a difficult but extremely productive period, during which every employee contributed to the common cause. These figures are not only indicators of yield, but also evidence of the dedicated work, professionalism, and unity of our team,” the company said.
Gadz Agro is engaged in crop and livestock farming on 26,000 hectares. It is one of the largest horticultural enterprises in Ukraine. It has its own processing facilities, in particular, it produces and exports apple chips under the Garden Gadz trademark, which will be sold in the international retail chain Lidl starting in 2023.
According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and Individuals, the companies were founded by Petro Gadz (50%) and OKKO Group owner Vitaliy Antonov through GnG Retail Limited (50%).
According to Vasyl Danylyak, CEO of OKKO Group, an important component of OKKO’s agricultural portfolio is its partnership with Gadz-Agro, which the company acquired a stake in in 2023. OKKO decided not to integrate the part of the business related to horticulture.
The TAS Agro agricultural holding has completed the 2025 early grain harvest, gathering over 130,000 tons of grain from an area of 22,000 hectares, the holding’s press service reported on Facebook.
TAS Agro noted that the average yield of winter wheat was 5.9 tons per hectare, exceeding the planned figures. The best results were in the Northern cluster (Chernihiv region), where the yield reached over 7 tons per hectare.
“The 2025 harvest was a test for all farmers, as rainy weather during the peak harvesting period slowed down the pace of work and could have affected the quality of the grain. However, the agricultural holding used all available resources to ensure the timely harvesting of the crop, and its elevators ensured the timely reception and high-quality storage of the harvest,” said Oleg Zapletnyuk, CEO of TAS Agro.
According to him, 75 grain harvesters and other necessary equipment were involved in the harvest.
According to the CEO, the agricultural holding achieved good results thanks to timely changes in cultivation technology, systematic analytics, and the responsible and coordinated work of all divisions. TAS Agro began the 2026 sowing campaign and soil preparation for winter wheat sowing in parallel with the harvest. As of mid-August, 11,000 hectares of winter rapeseed have been sown out of the planned 16,000 hectares.
The company’s clusters are preparing for the harvesting of late crops and a range of autumn field work. Sunflower harvesting will begin soon in the Southern cluster.
The agricultural holding is part of the TAS Group, which was founded in 1998. Its business interests include the financial sector (banking and insurance), pharmaceuticals, industry, real estate, and venture projects.
The founder of TAS and beneficiary of the TAS Agro agricultural holding is Serhiy Tihipko.
Agroholding KSG Agro has completed the harvest of spring barley and wheat from an area of 7,604 thousand hectares, of which 6,428 thousand hectares were allocated for wheat and 1,176 thousand hectares for spring barley, the press service of the agroholding reported.
“This year’s summer harvest in our Dnipro region was difficult. Weather conditions, including the effects of last year’s drought, took their toll. (…) We plan to use the harvested grain as ingredients for mixed feed for our pig farm. Part of it will be sold under export contracts,” said Sergey Kasyanov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of KSG Agro.
The agricultural holding specified that during the summer harvest, 18 John Deere and Claas Lexion combine harvesters and 60 trucks were used on KSG Agro’s fields.
KSG Agro is a vertically integrated holding company engaged in pig farming, as well as the production, storage, processing, and sale of grain and oilseeds. Its land bank in the Dnipropetrovsk and Kherson regions is about 21,000 hectares.
According to KSG Agro, it is one of the top five pork producers in Ukraine.
In 2023, the agricultural holding began implementing a network-centric strategy, under which it will move from developing a large location to a number of smaller pig farms located in different regions of Ukraine.
