Ukraine's Agrotrade completes winter wheat sowing on 14,600 hectares

MOSCOW. Oct 30 (Interfax) - Ukraine's Agrotrade agricultural holding has completed 2025 winter wheat sowing on 14,600 hectares in the Poltava, Chernigov, Kharkov and Sumy regions, Ukrainian media said, citing the Agrotrade press service.

The work was done as planned, and there are sprouts everywhere. The winter crops are well developed wherever they were sown early and at the early stages of development wherever they were sown in optimal periods, it said.

"We changed the approach to choosing a foregoing crop in order to cut the cost of cultivation technology. Previously, we sowed significant amounts of winter wheat where winter rape was grown earlier. That required herbicide and insecticide protection, which costs about $ 42-47 per hectare. This year, we reduced such areas and sowed mostly on former soybean and sunflower cropland, thus cutting the cost of wheat protection in autumn," Agrotrade Director Alexander Ovsyanik said.

The holding also took measures towards technological control of the sowing process. The online control center monitored the quality of agricultural operations by such parameters as sowing depth, seeding rate, fertilizer application, vehicle speed, and compliance with field contours in order to achieve high sowing quality and avoid overspending.

Winter wheat ranks first among all crops grown by the group.

As reported, Agrotrade started sowing winter crops for the 2025 harvest on 27,900 hectares on August 13. The area under winter rapeseed grew by 1,300 hectares, versus 12,500 hectares last year.

Agrotrade Group is a vertically integrated holding of a full agro-industrial cycle (production, processing, storage and trade in agricultural products). It cultivates more than 70,000 hectares of land in the Chernigov, Sumy, Poltava and Kharkov regions. The core crops are sunflower, corn, winter wheat, soybeans and rapeseed. It has its own network of elevators with a one-time storage capacity of 570,000 tonnes.

The group also produces hybrids of corn, sunflower, barley and winter wheat seeds. A seed plant with the annual capacity of 20,000 tonnes was built at the Kolos seed farm in the Kharkov region in 2014. Agrotrade launched its own brand Agroseeds in 2018.

Vsevolod Kozhemyako is the Agrotrade founder and CEO.