By KYIV. Nov 9 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The agricultural company Cygnet completed the corn harvest with a yield of 7.7 t/ha and received more than 133,000 tonnes of gross grain harvest, the company reported.
“We sowed 16,000 hectares with corn. Some 11 combines worked in Pohrebysche, Koziatyn and Andrushky. The average moisture content of corn was 16–20%. And although the July and August drought and lack of precipitation affected the yield, it was higher than last year,” agronomy technologist of the company Volodymyr Kukhar said.
As reported, in 2023, Cygnet, in addition to corn, allocated 3,000 hectares for sunflower, 1,700 ha for soybeans, 4,000 hectares for sugar beets, 2,500 hectares were sown with winter wheat.
Cygnet cultivates about 29,000 hectares in Zhytomyr and Vinnytsia regions, where it grows corn, soybeans, winter wheat, and sugar beets. The company’s assets include an elevator with a simultaneous storage capacity of 60,000 tonnes and a sugar plant with a processing capacity of up to 2,800 tonnes of beets per day (both in Zhytomyr region).
The company also has a dairy business (dairy herd – 605 cows), the products of which are sold to local processors.
