The Tekom Agro Group agricultural association (Odesa region) has started its 2026 spring sowing campaign with the sowing of red lentils, according to a post on its Facebook page on Tuesday.
It is noted that the first to start work were two farms of the association: Chornomorets LLC and Pivdenna Agricultural Company. In total, more than 1,000 hectares have been allocated for red lentils in four farms of the group.
“The temperature of +15°C allows us to start this year’s spring sowing. There is still enough moisture in the soil. In the Odessa region, in particular, where Chornomorets LLC operates, we are sowing lentils for the first time, and about 300 hectares are planned for this crop,” said Sergey Shtyrbulov, deputy head of production at Tekom Agro Group, whose words are quoted in the report.
According to the company, the Canadian variety Maxim (predecessor — winter wheat) was selected for sowing. The work is being carried out using John Deere sowing complexes with simultaneous fertilizer application.
Tekom Agro Group is a management company of an agricultural association in the Odesa region that operates according to a vertically integrated model. The holding’s land bank is over 26,000 hectares, on which the agricultural companies Yasni Zori, Pivdenna, Chornomorets, and Lyman operate. It specializes in growing winter wheat, barley, and rapeseed, as well as sunflowers and lentils.
The storage infrastructure consists of two elevators in the Podilskyi district — Podilskyi Grain Processing Enterprise and Chubivskyi Bread Products Plant — with a total one-time storage capacity of 100,000 tons. The enterprises are equipped with grain dryers and have their own certified laboratories. Chubivsky KHP has a seed line that provides the group’s farms with planting material.
According to YouControl, the founders of Tekom Agro Group are Yuriy Rodin and Mark Becker.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has included the 21.61-hectare NEXUS Odessa project in the Nerubayskaya territorial community of the Odessa region in the Register of Industrial Parks, according to the Ministry of Economy. The initiators of the project are Ecosstandard Service LLC, owned by businessman Lev Partskhaladze and Georgiy Tsagareishvili.
The park will focus on the production of food and beverages, machinery and equipment, metal structures and products for construction, building materials, and projects in the field of alternative energy. It is planned to create about 1,000 jobs.
The project involves attracting more than UAH 747.7 million from various sources: own investments, funds from the management company, state incentives, private financing, and contributions from future participants. The initiator has allocated about UAH 60 million of its own funds for the initial stage in 2025–2028.
Ekostandart Service LLC was registered in December 2014 with a statutory capital of UAH 12.66 million. Its main activities are the collection, processing, disposal, and recovery of safe waste. The ultimate beneficiaries are Lev Partskhaladze and Georgiy Tsagareishvili.
The term of the park’s creation is 30 years. The decision was made on November 13. Taking into account new projects, there are 109 objects in the Register of Industrial Parks.
The Department of Enforcement of Decisions of the State Enforcement Service of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine has put up for sale on OpenMarket a plant for the production of instant coffee and coffee products located in Chornomorsk, Odesa region.
The facility is being sold within the framework of enforcement proceedings.
The facility includes:
Address of the facility: 14A, Promyslova Street, Chornomorsk (formerly Illichivsk), Odesa region.
Starting price of the lot (№573261): UAH 78,484,341.
The auction is scheduled for May 12, 2025.
“We continue to provide opportunities for businesses to acquire unique industrial facilities. Our auction is not only a tool for debt repayment, but also an opportunity to give a second life to such assets,” said Roman Osadchuk, CEO of SE SETAM.
The OpenMarket auction (SE SETAM of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine) is a simple and effective means of selling and purchasing property via the Internet. The online auction has been operating throughout Ukraine since 2014.
On Thursday, in the presence of Ukraine’s Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Vitaliy Koval, Italian Ambassador to Ukraine Carlo Formosa signed an agreement with the International Center for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Research in Bari (CIHEAM) to launch the €9 million Pro.UKR project.
The Italian embassy toldInterfax-Ukraine that the agreement aims to promote sustainable agricultural development and food security in the agricultural areas of Odesa region.
The project, which will strengthen the production, technical and organizational capacities of local agricultural producers, livestock enterprises and cooperatives, will be fully implemented in Odesa, a city over which Italy has taken patronage for recovery, demonstrating Italy’s commitment to one of the regions most affected by the war. The program, developed jointly with the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine and technical experts from Odesa Oblast, will include the provision of tools for production in the fields of agriculture and livestock, the introduction of new technologies and sustainable irrigation systems.
“The agri-food sector is one of the key components for Ukraine’s economic recovery, particularly in the agricultural areas where small businesses have been particularly hard hit by the conflict. Italy reaffirms its support through a concrete project aimed at strengthening food security and promoting sustainable agricultural development,” said Ambassador Formosa.
The Pro.UKR program is part of a broader effort by Italy to support the recovery of Ukraine and the Odesa region, with the aim of contributing to the country’s economic and social resilience in the current difficult environment.
Agrane Agro Holding has modernized the grain receiving infrastructure at the Service Grain elevator complex (Odesa region) and laid a 200-meter railway line to it, the group’s press service reports.
According to the report, the newly laid railway line allows the company to ship up to 30 cars per day, which reduces the cost and speeds up the delivery of grain to ports.
In addition, Service Grain has equipped three hubs for receiving grain from trucks, including heavy trucks (up to 20 m long). With a total capacity of 2,000 tons, the elevator complex is ready to receive grain up to 1,700 tons per day.
According to the agroholding, the storage capacity of the complex, which is equipped with equipment from the domestic manufacturer KMZ Industries, has already reached 100 thousand tons.
“Thanks to the introduction of modern technologies, the elevator can simultaneously accept and ship both large and small batches of grain in a short time,” Agrane summarized.
“Agrain is engaged in the cultivation and storage of grains and oilseeds, as well as livestock farming. Before the full-scale Russian invasion, the agricultural holding included 11 agricultural enterprises. It cultivated about 110,000 hectares in Zhytomyr, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Odesa, and Cherkasy regions.
The holding is owned by SAS Investcompagnie (France).
Farmers of Odesa region had already harvested almost 2 million tonnes of grain, Serhiy Bratchuk, spokesman for Odesa regional military administration, said.
“We have one more front, we should not forget about it, and it is also one of the main ones – this is the agrarian front. Today, our grain growers have already harvested almost 2 million tonnes [of grain]. The northern parts of Odesa region have joined the harvest. We understand that if there is grain [and there will be!], there is flour. And Odesa region and other regions of our state, and, accordingly, entire Ukraine will have this resource,” he said at a briefing at the Ukraine Media Center on Monday.
At the same time, Bratchuk is convinced that the grain reserves in Odesa region will be sufficient for Ukraine to be able to export it to other countries.
