Our Grain-growing operations segment produces and sells feed grain for our own operations; a portion is also sold to third parties. Currently MHP cultivates 280,000 hectares of fertile black soil. We grow corn, sunflowers, wheat and rape. The corn and sunflower seed are used in our fodder mills, the wheat and rape are sold to third parties.

Ukraine’s black soil is extremely fertile and its temperate climate provides plenty of sunshine and rain. Those crops which we do not use for fodder are grown to enable us to operate a crop-rotation system. We minimize the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and we use the bedding and chicken droppings from the chicken barns as fertilizer.

Our priority for these operations is to be self-sufficient in grain for our fodder. Since 2005, we have grown an increasing proportion of the crops we need, and have acquired or constructed fodder mills and grain storage facilities. Starting with the harvest of 2008, we are self-sufficient in corn – main ingredient in our fodder.