In 2016 Nibulon increased its agricultural production volumes by 10% YoY, to 340 thousand tons, the press-service of the company declared.
According to the Deputy General Director of agricultural production Kostiantyn Khmelnytskyi, early spring crops vegetation, prolonged spring with low air temperatures, rains at the end of spring and in the first half of summer, had a good impact on the harvest results of early grain crops. In particular, the point is the increase of early grain crops yield, which in the current year totaled 4.34 ton/ha – the second highest result since 2009 (4.36 ton/ha). So, the company harvested more than 123.8 thousand tons of early grain crops.
According to the announcement, in 2016 the harvest volumes of corn totaled nearly 142 thousand tons. In addition, the production of sunflower seed reached 36.9 thousand tons, with the average yield at 2.29 ton/ha.
Also, 2016 was successful for Nibulon branches involved in livestock farming.
“We have achieved positive result in 11 months. The profitability of production has increased by 14%. Khmilnyk branch (Vinnytsia region) and Chudnivska branch (Zhytomyr region) have demonstrated the best results”, the head of the department of animal husbandry and products of its processing Oleksandr Klochkov noted. (APK-Inform/Business World Magazine)