Next year KSG Agro will expand the crop rotation of winter and spring peas on a total area of 1,000-1,200 hectares, some 500-600 hectares will be allocated for each type of crop, the company’s press service said on Thursday.
“In 2022, we will expand the crop rotation with peas, which at one time were abandoned due to low prices and demand. Now this crop is interesting as an excellent predecessor of winter crops, primarily wheat, and as a protein product for our pig breeding,” the group of companies said, citing its production director Dmytro Yemelchenko.
According to the agricultural holding, a seedling of winter pea of the Serbian Moroz grade has already been planted on an area of 53 hectares, and in March 2022 a seedling of spring peas will be sown. After receiving seeds for them, KSG Agro intends to sow marketable pea crops.
The company clarified that the expansion of the pea crop rotation is not so much commercial as technical in nature.
“Let’s say that we get a low profitability of 20-30%, but at the same time we understand that we will have an effective predecessor for winter crops, on which we will receive an increase,” Yemelchenko said in a report.
The vertically integrated holding KSG Agro is engaged in pig breeding, as well as in production, storage, processing and sale of grain and oilseeds. Its land bank is about 21,000 hectares in Dnipropetrovsk and Kherson regions.
According to the agricultural holding itself, it is one of the top five pork producers in Ukraine.
