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Agriculture has traditionally been the backbone of the Ukrainian economy: 70% of territory is covered by the agricultural sector. Ukraine is an important producer and exporter: #1 sunflower oil exporter, #2 grain exporter and #3 corn exporter globally; #1 honey producer in Europe and #3 globally; #3 exporter of poultry in Europe and #7 globally.
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Day 1
Kyiv
Arrival in Kyiv, Ukraine. Meeting & greeting with tour guide. Transfer to the hotel for check-in. Kyiv City Tour · Welcome dinner at the traditional restaurant.
Day 2
Kyiv
Breakfast. Meeting with Grain Association to discuss the grain market in Ukraine: production, processing, export, logistics, margin. Lunch in the city. Visit to crop farm (land bank - 11,000 ha; crops - corn, sunflower, soybeans; grain elevator with storing capacity 30k tons, receiving - 1.5k t/h; machinery fleet; precision farming. Transfer back to Kyiv. Dinner at the restaurant.
Day 3
Cherkasy
Breakfast. Check-out. Departure for Cherkasy region. Visit to crop farm (land bank – 7,500 ha; crops - wheat, corn, sunflower, soybean, sorghum, winter rapeseed; feed mill; grain elevator (30k tons and grain drying complex - 50 t/h). Lunch on the way. Visit to organic cereal farm (land bank - 9,000 ha of organic certificated land; crops - wheat, barley, peas, chickpeas, soybeans, sunflower, rye; own laboratory and organic elevator complex - 5,000 t). Transfer back to hotel. Dinner at the restaurant
Day 4
Cherkasy
Breakfast. Departure for farm visits. Visit to crop farm (land bank - 9,000 ha; crops - wheat, barley, corn, sunflower; farm machinery fleet; growing corn, sunflower for seed; own seed production factory). Lunch on the way. Visit to vertically-integrated agroholding (land bank - 70,000 ha; crop farming - cereal and oilseed crops; seed breeding - seed hybridization and seed quality improvement; seed production factory - 1 line for corn seeds: 330 t/day, 2 line for sunflower seeds: 150-200 t/day; seed distribution. Transfer back to Cherkasy. Dinner at the restaurant
Day 5
Kyiv
Breakfast . Check-out. Departure for Kyiv. Visit to grain transshipment terminal (branch of agroholding), located on the Dnipro river and does grain receiving (8,000 t/day), drying (3,000 t/day), shipping (10,000 t/day). Grain are received by tracks from nearby farms, shipped to barges to deliver to agroholding’s grain sea terminal on south. Lunch on the way. Arrival in Kyiv. Check-in the hotel. Free time. Farewell dinner at the restaurant
Day 6
Departure
Breakfast & Check-out. Free time in the city: shopping, visit to wholesale agri-food market. Transfer to the airport. Check-in the flight. Departure
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