Ukraine's Agrotrade begins sowing winter crops, allocating 28,000 hectares

MOSCOW. Aug 13 (Interfax) - Ukraine's Agrotrade holding has begun sowing winter crops for the 2025 harvest, allocating 27,900 hectares for them, Ukrainian media reported, quoting the holding's press service.

Sowing began with winter rapeseed, for which almost 12,500 hectares have been allocated in the Kharkov, Chernigov, Sumy and Poltava regions, up 1,300 hectares from last season. More than 24% of the planned area has already been sown.

The company put the change in the area under winter rapeseed down to crop rotation requirements. Sowing will last two weeks.

Sowing of winter wheat, for which 15,400 hectares have been allocated, will soon begin.

Agrotrade is a vertically integrated full-cycle agro-industrial holding (production, processing, storage and trade of agricultural products). It cultivates more than 70,000 hectares of land, and specializes in sunflower, corn, winter wheat, soybeans and rapeseed. It has its own network of elevators, capable o storing 570,000 to at once.

The holding also produces hybrids of corn and sunflower seeds and barley and wheat. A seed plant with a capacity of 20,000 tonnes per year was built on the basis of the Kolos seed farm in 2014. Agrotrade launched its own Agroseeds brand on the market in 2018.

The founder and CEO of the group is Vsevolod Kozhemyako.