The first line of the renewed oil refining factory of Agroliga has entered full capacity.

Technical testing started on November 11th. New equipment was adjusted and tested during more than one and a half months in various operating modes, and by the end of the year 2011 left on complete designed capacity – 70 tons of sunflower production per day. After the conversion, capacity of the first production line exceeds for 27% the capacity of the whole plant a year ago.

The average output of oil consists 41-42 % that corresponds planned targets.

At the factory have been completely replaced oil extractors, the heating equipment, product and oil pipelines, there were expanded storage reservoirs as well.

Now installation of 2nd line is coming to an end. Its technical start is planned for the end of February. By the end of winter the Group plans to finish the setup and configuration of the equipment and reach the amount of processing of 55 thousand tons of sunflower per year.

For information: The group debuted on the 11th February 2011 on the Warsaw Stock Exchange’s governed NewConnect market. Prior to that the Company conducted private placement from which it received EUR 1 million. These funds were used for modernization of machine park, increase of production forces and breeding complex. Increase the capacity of processing is an essential part of strategic development of the Group.

The new building of cowhouse for 180 cows on a dairy farm was renovated at  Agroliga.

The automatic milking of the company «Westfalia Surge GMBH» is installed in the milk barn.
There are dairy unit, rest room and veterinary office located in the large utility room. As well, there are all the necessary communications in the milk storage unit: hot and cold water, drain. Here is also a vacuum pumping station to pump milk and automatic washing equipment, as well as tank-cooler at 4 tons, board room for electricity.

"We started construction in June of this year - says the chairman of the Board of Directors Agroliga Alexandr Berdnik - I was in Denmark before, looked at the work of similar systems abroad in order to get appropriate experience there. While our herd was grazing in the summer, were carried out major works, and installation of the milk complex, and finishing were carried out in autumn. Totally there were invested more than 200 thousand euros in renovation. "

There are plans to reconstruct another two barns with a combined capacity of 360 dairy hall milk cows.
For information: Currently, a herd belonging to the company counts 780 head of cattle. By the end of the year, this number will increase to 800-850 units. Over the next 3 years, Agroliga plans to increase the number of cows to 1,200 units.
The development of dairy farming is one of the strategic directions of the Group.

Harvesting of sunflower in the fields of Agroliga Group finished. This year's crop was sown oilseed 1856.59 hectares, from which collected 6502 tons. The average yield was 35 quintals per hectare, with an average yield of sunflower in Ukraine this year, according to preliminary data of State Statistics Service, is 17.1 c/ha, 16.7 c/ha last year. In the last year Agroliga sunflower yield was 31.5 centner per hectare.

The higher yield this year is related primarily to the program using new CAS fertilizer launched this year. Granular nitroammofosfat potassium nitrate, and other traditional fertilizers used in the bulk of Ukrainian farms were replaced by liquid fertilizers. In addition to the CAS, program intensification of agricultural production also involves the use of chelate fertilizers introduced at the stage of sunflower vegetation. This year they have been applied to experimental plots, and have showed a good result. The following season chelate fertilizer will be included in the main loop plant, which will further increase the yield of sunflower and crops.

Also this year the practice was used to working with apiaries, we had contracts with four companies, set out on the field during the flowering of sunflower and buckwheat more than 200 beehives. This support helps to pollinate and create more of the ovaries in the flowers.

Harvest went to the elevators of the Group for further processing into sunflower oil.

Early grain gathering on the Agroliga’s fields comes to an end.

Winter wheat and barley, by which it has been sowed 1753,0 and 1829,0 hectares accordingly, are already gathered.

An average productivity of wheat this year has made 45 centner per hectare, which provided the gross gathering of 7 889 tons of a crop.

Herewith, the average yield on the Kharkov region and across Ukraine as a whole doesn’t exceed 34,3 and 33,1 centner per hectare, accordingly.

Last year productivity at the fields of the Group of Companies made 26 centner per hectare, which approximately corresponded to the average productivity on the Kharkov region and Ukraine as well.

An average productivity of barley this year has made 30 centner per hectare, which provided the gross gathering of 5487 tons of a crop. Productivity of this culture on the Kharkov area makes 21,8 ts/hectares in 2011. Last year winter barley on our fields has been harvested at the rate of 24,8 centner per hectare.

Collected wheat corresponds to 2-nd and 3-rd class.

«Our forecasts for this year have completely justified. Introduction of new liquid fertilizers has allowed to increase productivity of the basic cultures up to 25-30 % in comparison with the average productivity on the Region. This innovation is not the last so far in our agricultural improvement plan.» - said Oleksander N. Berdnik, President of the Board of Directors of Agroliga Group PLC.

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