This season the agricultural holding “Ukrlandfarming” is planning to sow 300-330 thousand hectares, which is more than a year ago, due to deoccupation, the owner of the holding Oleg Bakhmatyuk said to the agency “Interfax-Ukraine” on Monday.
According to him, about 30 thousand hectares in Chernihiv, Sumy and part of the Nikolaev regions are in question because of mines.
“Kherson, for sure, we will not have time for sure,” he said, adding that Ukrlandfarming lands in Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions are still under occupation.
At the same time, Bakhmatyuk recalled that last year, the occupiers disrupted the sowing season in Kyiv, Chernihiv and Sumy regions.
The owner also said that significant changes will be in the structure of cultivated land, in particular the area under corn will be smaller, because it requires more investment, in contrast to, for example, sunflower.
In addition, Bakhmatyuk said that inspection of the Chornobaevskaya poultry farm from the “Ukrlandfarming” holding “Avangard” in the Kherson region showed the unrealistic resumption of its work in current conditions “neither for technical reasons, nor for people.
According to him, in fact, only poultry houses “with iron” remained at the factory, while all the climate control cabinets, all the engines and machinery were stolen. “Everything that could be unscrewed and broken off was unscrewed and broken off,” the owner of Ukrlandfarming stated.
He pointed out that in such conditions “Avangard” plans to increase production at the factory in Kamyanets-Podilsky.
