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.
