Representatives of the Agroliga group were invited as speakers at the 4th International Forum "Agribusiness in Ukraine", organized by the Adam Smith Institute (England), which was held in Kiev on March 13-15. This annual forum is one of the most representative in the Ukrainian agricultural sector, and this year he has brought together over 150 participants and more than 50 speakers, among whom were Nicholai Bezugly, First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine, and Gregory Smityuh, Member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Agrarian policy.

From our company were Irina Poplavskaya and Dmitri Babaev, who shared their experiences of raising capital on the New Connect in Warsaw Stock Exchange. The speech was greeted participants of the forum with great interest.

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Agroliga Group began to sell their own production of sunflower oil for export. It has been signed a contract with a Swiss company Allseeds for the supply of oil through the port Nikolaev.

Export development is a priority for 2012. Thereby, it has been also signed an Agreement on cooperation with the major Ukrainian company Sinton, which has been specialized in export transactions for many years. As part of this collaboration will unite the experience of trading companies with a production company, that provides great prospects for development.

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.