TAS Agro Agro has completed sowing winter crops for the 2025 harvest on 38 thou hectares, the company’s press service reported on Facebook.
According to the report, 15 thou hectares were allocated for winter rapeseed and about 23 thou hectares for winter wheat.
The agroholding noted that despite abnormally dry conditions in August and the first half of September, the company’s specialists managed to get high-quality winter rapeseed seedlings in all clusters. Winter wheat was sown in a short time.
“Wheat in the crop rotation in 2024 occupies a quarter of the agricultural holding’s area and required concentrated efforts and coordinated work of all departments to ensure timely sowing and root system formation before the onset of cold weather. As of today, the company has received winter crops that are in good and satisfactory condition,” said Oleg Zapletnyuk, CEO of TAS Agro.
The agroholding continues to thresh corn, prepares the soil for the next season and completes the sugar beet harvest. The average corn yield is 8 tons per hectare, which is significantly higher than the national average.
TAS Group was founded in 1998. Its business interests include the financial sector (banking and insurance) and pharmacy, as well as industry, real estate, and venture capital projects.
Before the war, TAS Agro Group cultivated 83,000 hectares in Vinnytsia, Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Chernihiv, Mykolaiv, Sumy, Kherson and Dnipro regions, where it grows soybeans, sunflower, rapeseed, wheat, barley and corn. In addition, the agricultural holding is engaged in dairy farming (up to 5.5 thousand heads of cattle) and owns six elevators with a one-time storage capacity of 250 thousand tons.
The founder of TAS is Sergey Tigipko.
The Central Mining and Processing Plant (TsGOK, Krivoy Rog, Dnipropetrovsk region), which is part of the Metinvest group, allocated more than UAH 4 million to sow 80 hectares of industrial areas with winter rye as part of the fight against dusting.
According to the company, CGOK continues to use green technologies to reduce the technogenic impact on the environment. The enterprise sowed 80 hectares of winter rye on dry tailing dumps, and Metinvest allocated more than UAH 4 million to the environmental project.
At the same time, it is noted that in order for the plants to sprout better, the environmentalists of the plant used mineral fertilizers of saltpeter and nitroammophos. To date, 80% of the crops have already sprouted. The plants will soon develop a strong root system and ground shoots that will hold back dust and reduce dusting by more than 230 tons per year.
“The Central GOK systematically introduces green technologies, which significantly reduce the impact of the enterprise on the environment. We have been sowing winter rye at the plant for more than five years. This is a good practice that has a good effect – the plants form a protective barrier and do not allow dust to spread on the beaches of the plant’s tailings “, – explains the head of the department of environmental protection of the Central GOK Natalya Belozerova, quoted by the press service.
At the same time, it is recalled that planting winter crops, planting greenery on the territory of the enterprise and nearby urban settlements is one of the priority areas of the environmental program of the Central GOK. In the last three years alone, the plant has planted more than 3,000 green spaces.
CGOK is one of the five largest producers of mining raw materials in Ukraine. It specializes in the extraction and production of iron ore raw materials – concentrate and pellets.
CGOK is part of the Metinvest group, the main shareholders of which are PJSC System Capital Management (SKM, Donetsk) (71.24%) and the Smart Holding group of companies (23.76%).
The managing company of the Metinvest group is Metinvest Holding LLC.
