Astarta : Completes Early Grain Harvesting Campaign
August 21, 2023 at 01:07 pm IST
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Astarta's agricultural enterprises have completed harvesting of early grain crops on 57kha. The total gross harvest of spring crops exceeds 330kt, including 271kt of winter wheat and 56kt of winter rapeseed.
The сompany's average winter wheat yield is 6.3t/ha, up 33% y-o-y. The highest average result is 7.4t/ha on an area of 6kha in the Vinnytsia region, including 1 350ha of wheat, which reached 8.4t/ha.
The сompany harvested 56kt of winter rapeseed, with an average yield of 4.1t/ha, a record for the last five years. The highest result of over 5t/ha on an area of 1 310ha was achieved in the Poltava region.
Preparations are underway for harvesting soybeans, sunflowers, corn, and sugar beet processing.
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Astarta Holding PLC is a Cyprus-based agriculture company, that specializes in sugar production, grain and oilseeds growing, soybean processing and cattle farming. The farmlands, sugar plants and cattle operations are mainly located in Ukraine. The Company's activities are divided into four main segments: Sugar Production, Agriculture, Soybean Processing, and Cattle Farming. Its Sugar Production segment is engaged in the production and wholesale of white and raw sugar and its by-products. The Agriculture segment is responsible for the cultivation and sale of crops, such as corn, wheat, sunseeds, rapeseeds, and others. The Soybean Processing segment is engaged in soybean and soybean meal and oil production and sale. The Cattle Farming Segment is engaged in dairy cattle raising and milk production and sale. Other Group operations mainly comprise the production and sales of fodder and gas.