Agrarna Kompania 2004, PE: The Best Time for Reconstruction is Now

Popivtsi village, Volochyskyi district, Khmelnytskyi region. 4,300 sows of Danish genetics (three-line hybrid)
Doing the pig-breeding business since 2010 Land Bank — almost 60 thousand hectares

Agrarna Kompania 2004 is part of the vertically integrated structure of VITAGRO, founded in 1999. Agro-Chemical Company VITAGRO, LLC is a part of the Group as well.  Its main activity are the sales of plant protection products and seeds of winter, spring and industrial crops.

The work of the farm began from the reconstruction of the pig farm with a capacity of 720 sows in Svirshkivtsi village, Chemerovetskyi region. In 2017 there were  4,300 sows. In 2018 they plan to build two new farrowing units  on 2,000 sows each.

Agrarna Kompania 2004 breeds pigs of Danish genetics (three-line hybrid).

Raw materials for feed are grown on its own fields. The construction of a feed mill (150 tons of mixed feedper day) was completed in 2014. The first stage of the elevator was put into service in 2015.

About 60 thousand hectares of land are cultivated. In 2013 its own seed plant was put  into service  to provide high-quality seed material. Moreover, the company has its own service structures: the park of machinery, engineering service, construction department.

In addition, the company actively develops gardening (one of the biggest garden complexes in Western Ukraine)— the complex includes about 600 hectares of plantations, a fruit storage for 10 thousand tons of fruit, and an automated fruit line.

Characteristic

Value

Farrowing

1

Genetics

DanAVL

2

Sow herd size, heads

4 300

3

Weaned piglets per   sow  per year, heads

31,4

4

Liveborn per farrowing, h.

16

5

Weight  at weaning, kg

6,4

6

Conception rate, %

91,2

7

Farrowing per sow per year

2,24

Nursery

1

Average daily gain, g

473

2

Age at weight 30 kg, days

77

Growing

1

Average daily gain, g

960

2

Average slaughter weight, kg

116,5

3

Age at slaughter weight, days

169