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NIBULON BOOSTS YIELD OF EARLY GRAIN AND OILSEEDS BY 19% IN 2015

10 November , 2015  

KYIV. Nov 10 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Mykolaiv-based Nibulon agri-business, one of Ukraine’s largest producers and exporters of grain and oilseed crops, boosted the yield of early crops by 19% in 2015 from 2014, to 130,000 tonnes.

“Our increase in the yield of early crops is 19%, to 130,000 tonnes,”

Nibulon Deputy Director General Kostiantyn Khmelnytsky told Interfax-Ukraine.

In his words, the average crop capacity of wheat was 43.7 centners per hectare, that of barley 445.1 centners per hectare, and rapeseeds 34.7 centners per hectare.

Nibulon completed the sowing of winter crops, having insignificantly reduced areas under crops from the previous year, to 30,000 hectares, including 23,000 hectares under wheat and 3,500 hectares under rapeseeds.

As was reported, Nibulon JV was founded in 1991. It is one of the largest operators on the Ukrainian grain market.