By KYIV. Nov 10 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Agro-industrial holding Astarta, the largest sugar producer in the country, has allocated 29% of its production area to winter crops, the company reported on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.
According to it, winter wheat was sown on 49,000 hectares, which is 14% more than a year earlier, and winter rapeseed on 12,000 hectares, which is 12% less than last year.
“The production area under winter wheat during the sowing process was adjusted from 54,000 hectares planned for sowing to 49,000 hectares due to dry weather conditions in order to complete the sowing campaign in the optimal time,” explained the agricultural holding.
At the same time, the harvest of oilseeds is nearing completion. The gross sunflower harvest amounted to 83,000 tonnes with a yield of 3 t/ha, which corresponds to last year, soybeans – 169,000 tonnes with a yield of 3.1 t/ha, which is 6% more than in 2022. Corn and sugar beet harvesting is 2/3 complete.
Astarta also estimated its share in Ukraine’s exports of grains and oilseeds based on the results of work for nine months of 2023 at 1%.
Astarta is a vertically integrated agro-industrial holding operating in eight regions of Ukraine. It includes six sugar factories, agricultural farms with a land bank of 220,000 hectares and dairy farms with 22,000 cows, an oil extraction plant in Globino (Poltava region), seven elevators and a biogas complex.
