The sowing of agricultural crops in all farms of the country over the past ten years has increased from 75.3 million hectares to 80 million hectares for the 2016 harvest. At the same time, the number of agricultural organizations working in the industry during this time decreased from 59.2 thousand to 36.4 thousand, he calculated Rosstat... Agricultural land remains an attractive investment target, with companies expanding and consolidating crop assets. However, it is very difficult to figure out how effectively the largest landowners use land and whether the strategy of buying land plots with the expectation of an increase in their value and further resale is relevant for the industry, since the sector is extremely opaque. However " Agroinvestor»Tried to assess the work of agricultural holdings and made their rating by the size of the sown area. It included 22 companies, which, according to calculations, sowed more than 6.5 million hectares together for the 2016 harvest, or 8% of the all-Russian indicator. The total land bank of the players was not taken into account - only the land in cultivation was counted; the final figure for each company does not include fallows and pastures, with the exception of cultural ones (for more details on the methodology, see the sidebar “How the rating was compiled”).

Leaders do not work in their own land

The top leaders are opened by the holding " Prodimex"Igor Khudokormov with 690 thousand hectares. This figure is only an estimate for Prodimex: “ Agroinvestor"Did not combine his arable land and the land of" Agrokultura "- another asset of Khudokormov's structures. They are not part of the same group, are not linked by a common management company, and do not constitute a single operational whole. " Prodimex"Is a non-public company, therefore it does not announce the size of its land bank and crops, said its general director Viktor Aleksakhin. It is estimated that last year the latter approached 700 thousand hectares, in particular, about 130 thousand hectares passed to the company from the Ivolga holding, which lost its cluster in the Kursk region due to financial problems. Also " Prodimex"Works in the Stavropol Territory, Voronezh, Belgorod, Penza regions and Bashkortostan, according to its website. According to Soyuzrossahar, the company is the largest sugar producer in the country with a market share of about 22.5%. In addition to sugar beets, she grows wheat, corn, barley, sunflowers and soybeans. The holding is also engaged in dairy farming. The total herd, according to the company as of July 2016, consisted of 30 thousand animals.

In the second position - " Miratorg", Which, according to another rating by Agroinvestor, is in the top 3 largest Russian meat producers. The company was unable to provide accurate data on the size of its crops, which is also due to accounting peculiarities, since cultural pastures prevail in the structure of the land bank - somewhere one-year crops are sown, somewhere long-term. The representative of the holding clarified that all lands are cultivated and sown. Last year " Miratorg”Reported that his grain company sowed 243 thousand hectares, and the size of pastures in the first quarter of 2016 exceeded 500 thousand hectares. If only crops for commercial crops were taken into account, then the holding took only 13th place, however, according to experts and market participants surveyed by Agroinvestor, the company sowed 500-600 thousand hectares last year.

15th place in the rating of the holding " AgroTerra", Which sows about 200 thousand hectares. The company has 33 farms in the Tula, Ryazan, Penza, Kursk, Tambov, Lipetsk and Oryol regions. The main agricultural crops are wheat, barley, rapeseed, soybeans, sunflowers, buckwheat and corn. The company has 18 bases and elevators with a total capacity of more than 500 thousand tons. The company's strategy does not envisage increasing its own arable land. However, when applications for the supply of agricultural products began to exceed its production capacity, she decided to integrate neighboring enterprises into her work, creating a center for the development of agribusiness " AgroTerra Integrator ". During the first year, 71 farms from Central Russia used its services, together they cultivate 120 thousand hectares of land. By 2022, the land bank of the holding's partners will reach at least 1 million hectares, which will make it possible to form lots of products for sale of almost any volume, the director said “ AgroTerra Integrator "Alexander Dashchenko. Investments in the project over the next five years will amount to RUB 10 billion.

On the 16th line is the Pokrovsky concern, its agricultural holdings Kanevskoy, Yeysky and Labinsky unite 25 enterprises in 13 districts of the Krasnodar Territory. They are engaged in the cultivation, storage and processing of grain and industrial crops, vegetable growing, horticulture, milk production and pig breeding. The total land bank of the holding is 210 thousand hectares, the sown area is 190 thousand hectares. The structure of the company also includes the sugar factories "Kanevsksakhar", "Timashevskiy sugar factory" and "Sugar factory" Kurganinsky "". Over the past five years, the concern has invested 8.5 billion rubles in the economy of the Kuban. In addition to agriculture, Pokrovsky invests in the production of electrical equipment, and is also one of the leaders in the South Russian market of premium residential real estate.

The 17th position of the rating is taken by GAP "Resource", which sowed 175.4 thousand hectares last year. The holding's land bank at the beginning of 2016 was 209.9 thousand hectares, at the end - 210.6 thousand hectares, by mid-September 2017 it increased to 213.4 thousand hectares, the company representative said. Crop assets are located in the Rostov Region, Stavropol Territory and the Republic of Adygea. The gross harvest of wheat, corn, sunflower and soybeans last year amounted to 521 thousand tons. The main activity of the group is the production of broiler meat, in 2016 it produced 343 thousand tons in live weight.

The right assets are hard to find

The next participant in the rating is the Agrokultura company with an estimated value of 160 thousand hectares. The company was established in 2007 by Swedish investors; in November 2014, the offshore Steenord Ltd. became the owners of 94.2% of its shares. and Magna Investments Limited. The beneficiary of the first - the founder of "Sportmaster" Nikolay Fartushnyak, Magna belongs to the owner of "Prodimex" Igor Khudokormov, "Agrokultura" reported then. In 2015, Magna began compulsory redemption of shares from minority shareholders, on May 18, 2017, the arbitration panel decided that the redemption price of the remaining shares would be 4.5 Swedish kronor per share plus interest - 0.22 kroons per share. According to kartoteka.ru, now 99.93% of Agrokultura MC belongs to Yenisey, which is headed by Khudokormov, 0.07% is Agrokultura Kursk, which, in turn, is also owned by Yenisei. The only participant in the latter is the Cypriot "Arlf Agrokultura Limited", among the directors of which Khudokormov is indicated. Now "Agrokultura" is engaged in crop production and animal husbandry in the Voronezh, Lipetsk, Tambov and Kursk regions. The total land bank is 200 thousand hectares, according to the website agrokultura.com.

On the 19th place is " EkoNiva»Stefan Duerr. Last year, he had 184 thousand hectares of arable land, including 156 thousand hectares were sown, the commercial director of the company Sergey Lyashko cites the data. The difference of 28 thousand hectares is fallow, pastures, meadows, land under construction and deposits. The main volume of land " EkoNiva"- 86.5 thousand hectares of arable land, of which the crops for the 2016 harvest occupied 79 thousand hectares, is located in the Voronezh region. In Novosibirskaya last year, 33.5 thousand hectares were sown out of 42 thousand hectares. This is followed by the Kaluga (23.2 thousand hectares of arable land and 19.2 thousand hectares of crops) and Kursk (15.5 thousand hectares of arable land and 14.5 thousand hectares of crops) regions. In the Orenburg region, the sown area was at the level of 8 thousand hectares, in the Tyumen region - 3.7 thousand hectares. Arable land in these regions was 11.7 thousand hectares and 4.5 thousand hectares, Lyashko lists.

According to him, the company has plans to expand its land bank, first of all it is interested in assets in the regions of its presence and neighboring regions. “We are trying to grow organically,” explains Sergey Lyashko. At the same time, further geographic diversification of the business is not excluded, in particular, “ EkoNiva»Concluded agreements with the administration of the Ryazan region on the possible development of dairy farming there and the acquisition of land. “While everything is at the level of an agreement, we are negotiating with the regional authorities and land owners,” Lyashko clarifies.

According to him, from the point of view of legal issues - the allocation of shares, their registration and redemption - there are no problems, since the company has been working on the market for a long time and knows what and how to do. The problems of finding suitable sites in regions of interest to the company are more urgent. “For example, it’s easier to expand in Siberia: the concentration of large players there is small, and interest in agricultural production is limited,” says the top manager. “And in the regions of the center of the country it is more difficult, because there is high competition between different buyers.” Moreover, in favor of “ EkoNiva»Is a social factor, since the company specializes in the development of dairy farming, and this gives jobs. Nevertheless, in the end, the question of buying a particular land asset is determined by its ease of use and price, he adds.

The 20th position is occupied by the group " South of Russia”, Which both last and this year cultivated 190 thousand hectares, crops occupied 145 thousand hectares. Basically, the company's land is concentrated in the Rostov region (134 thousand hectares), it also works in the Volgograd region (34 thousand hectares) and in the Krasnodar Territory (21 thousand hectares). The holding's farms grow grain, legumes and oilseeds, including sunflower, camelina, flax, safflower, milk thistle, a company representative lists. According to the Fat and Oil Union, “ South of Russia»At the end of last year became the largest sunflower processor in the country: from 1.19 million tons, the company accounted for 12% of the total Russian volume. It is also the country's leader in the production of bottled sunflower oil with an indicator of 362 thousand tons (27% of the market).

Daria Snitko, head of the Gazprombank Center for Economic Forecasting, believes that agricultural holdings are investing in the expansion of land banks as actively as they can. “The only pity is that the land in this turnover of sale and purchase is mostly the same, which is transferred from one legal entity to another,” she adds. “But the registration of new plots for sale lags far behind, as well as the transition of land from collective, unit and state (all levels) ownership to company ownership.” Therefore, it is still very early to talk about market consolidation - it is highly fragmented, she notes.

At the same time, we will not reach a clean secondary land market either, at least in the next three or four years, the "wars" in the sector will continue, Romanova believes, especially since not all regions have passed through them yet. “There are a lot of court cases now. Companies with strong legal services are restoring statute of limitations and canceling long-standing sales and purchases, she says. “For example, if it turns out that the land was bought by a person who, in fact, was not a shareholder, but acquired the right to a land share through collateral.” In many regions, the following schemes were used: a loan was formally drawn up with one of the co-investors, and a land share was pledged as security for the fulfillment of an obligation. Then they did the so-called "squabble" (self-bankruptcy), went to court, recognized the debt and transferred the rights to the land share as compensation. Having received a court decision, according to which the right to a land share was registered, they began to buy up land for a “pseudo shareholder”. But the rules for foreclosure on a land share are different, and foreclosure can only be made after it has been allocated in kind, that is, having formed a land plot, Romanova emphasizes. The decision of the court, according to which the "psvedolnik" appeared, can be canceled and all transactions made invalid. "Such wars are now going on everywhere, people are suing for any hectare that can be taken," she knows. The problem is that many small farms do not adequately approach the issues of land registration, they believe that since they have registered their right in Rosreestr, then nothing can be done, however, it is possible to unfold the deal and cancel the record with good legal preparation, and there are many such cases now , notes Romanova.

According to Daria Snitko, large holdings will continue to buy and invest in land. But the market is still very small, since in Russia the bulk of the land used in agriculture is still not properly formalized, she says. “Leaving this business will be companies that are unsuccessful in the operational plan, those who have not been able to establish production,” the expert predicts. “In my opinion, without investments in production and agricultural technology, one should not count on an increase in the value of agricultural land, which will make it possible to recoup the investment.” Crop production is now a very profitable business, but it requires substantial costs, of which only part of it comes from buying land. We also need significant investments in technology and the acquisition of equipment.

According to Sheremet, in conditions of falling profitability, investing in land in terms of capitalization of value is quite risky, because there is no understanding when the land will rise in price and how an investor can wait out this time. Especially if it is a non-core investor who will not be able to effectively manage assets and receive acceptable returns during this time interval. “At the same time, the market has a consolidated position that land in the long term should be more expensive and can be used more efficiently,” the expert continues. - We have already seen such sharp leaps in the example of South America: in Uruguay, in Brazil - a long stagnation in land prices was replaced by a multiple increase. Obviously, this is what many of today's investors are hoping for. "

At the first stage, Agroinvestor analyzed the rating of the largest landowners, compiled by BEFL companies, selecting potential participants with a land bank of 150 thousand hectares or more, working in the European part of the country. Companies operating only beyond the Urals were not the subject of a separate analysis. Inquiries were sent to agricultural holdings from the long list with a request to clarify the volume of the land bank and the cultivated area (land in cultivation excluding fallow and natural pastures). The companies were also interviewed by phone. In parallel, requests were sent to agricultural departments of the regions with a request to provide indicators for companies. In addition, open data were analyzed: websites of companies, their reports, documents posted on the portals of administrations, ministries, departments and departments of the agro-industrial complex of regions and regions of presence of companies, publications in the media, etc. In particular, representatives of companies supplying means of production (machinery, seeds, plant protection products) and other market participants were included; it was proposed to estimate the acreage of those players who did not respond to inquiries and did not provide data. If the experts' assessments differed, then the arithmetic mean was taken into account, when two or more people called the same numbers, and others were close to them, then the one that was voiced by the majority was taken into account.
The rating does not claim to be complete and unconditionally reliable. It is possible that, due to possible confusion in definitions and wording, some companies and experts have voiced or estimated the size of arable land or land bank, and not the sown area, or provided data for this year, which may differ from the indicators of the spring accounting of 2016. Companies operating only beyond the Urals were not the subject of a separate analysis. In the summary table, figures have been rounded to the nearest whole.

The level of technology has become higher

Suppliers of capital goods note that the level of development of agriculture among the market leaders has significantly increased over the past ten years. Although if we compare it with advanced countries, then we still have room to grow and improve, assesses the general director of DuPont Pioneer in Russia, Alexander Kozachkov. “Companies have become much more careful in choosing the means of production - seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, some holdings even develop their own services that test new products before transferring them to production,” he knows. At the same time, economic issues are becoming more and more urgent. Since product prices are unstable, agricultural producers are trying to control production costs and reduce production costs. Nevertheless, the share of using high-quality, and therefore more expensive, seed is increasing, Kozachkov notes.
It is quite obvious that, in general, the culture of agriculture in Russia has grown in recent years and continues to develop steadily, agrees Igor Bruevich, CEO of KWS in Russia. This is confirmed by both quantitative indicators - an increase in grain harvest, sugar beet, meat production, and qualitative indicators: for example, an increase in the yield of sugar per hectare. “But it should be noted that in a number of relative indicators we are lagging behind the United States and the EU countries,” he agrees with Kozachkov. “If we talk about agricultural holdings, they also demonstrate both extensive development, which is expressed in building up the land bank, and focus on intensifying production.” In recent years, when crop production has shown steady growth rates and is becoming a truly profitable and more or less predictable business, an understanding has emerged that land is a full-fledged asset that can bring sustainable income, provided technology is followed, Bruevich is sure.
According to him, customers have become more careful and conscious in their choice of suppliers of means of production. At the same time, a “buyer's market” has now emerged, when there are several suppliers for almost every item - seeds, machinery, plant protection products, fertilizers. “The level of competition is growing, we have to fight for each customer, offering not only high-quality products, but also service support,” says Bruevich. - For example, some clients check the quality of sugar beet seeds in Russian laboratories for the presence of the declared amount of active ingredients in the disinfectants (insecticides and fungicides). Many people demand training programs for employees in sugar beet cultivation technology. You need constant agronomic support, starting from harvesting the predecessor and preparing the soil to the completion of the collection and laying of root crops for storage. This requires our company to constantly develop its agronomic service. "
According to the deputy general director of the company "August" Vladimir Alginin, in recent years, agricultural producers have become more serious about the use of plant protection products: an increase in the level of their use is evidenced by the fact that the plant protection products market is growing on average by 10% per year, while the sown area is significantly do not change. At the same time, most large companies often conduct preliminary trials of drugs, tenders to determine price preferences. “In the first place in the culture of farming, I would put the Agrocomplex named after N. Tkacheva, - comments the general director of Shchelkovo Agrokhim Salis Karakotov. - Close to them is the Rusagro group. In terms of technological level, Miratorg is about the third in the country, then I would mention EkoNiva, then AgroGard and Dominant are at a similar level in terms of agricultural technology.

Is there a limit to growth

In recent years, several large latifundists, such as Ivolga-Holding, Razgulay, SAHO, Emerald Country, have completely or partially lost their business, which many experts explained, among other things, by ineffective management: when a company is too big, it is difficult control. However, according to Alexander Kozachkov, the problem of managing an agricultural enterprise is not always related to the size of his land bank. “In my opinion, there are large agricultural holdings that are efficiently managed and small farms with ineffective management,” he says. "There is probably some limit to the possible expansion of land banks, but it all depends on the structure of the company, on how the communication chains are built between departments and people."
Among large agricultural holdings there are both successful examples and not very successful ones, however, this is also true for farms of other shapes and sizes - from medium-sized enterprises to farms, Igor Bruevich agrees. Effective management requires a clear, understandable strategy, a strong team and well-built processes, he notes. At the same time, in his opinion, in Russian conditions it is easier for agricultural holdings to work in many issues: they can accumulate large financial resources, they have better access to borrowed funds, if the business is diversified, then it is more resistant to price fluctuations in individual markets. With the development of technologies, more tools appear for the effective management of large land banks, Bruevich is sure.
If we talk about the risks that increase with the growth of the land bank, then, according to Vladimir Alginin, the maximum amount of land concentrated in one company without losing management efficiency depends on its model. If the holding has direct management, then the working option is up to 150 thousand hectares. If it is divided into divisions, the general strategy refers to the parent company, and smaller divisions are directly managed, then the scale of the land bank may be greater, Alginin said.
Salis Karakotov also thinks that the maximum land bank under the control of one company for effective management should be within 150 thousand hectares, provided that the holding is divided into separate legal entities, which have no more than 15 thousand hectares. “At the same time, divisions with general legal subordination should have relative economic independence, in particular, in terms of procurement, resources and technology alignment,” he says. - Integration should not be vertical, but horizontal. When a company has no more than 150 thousand hectares and separate structural units - it is well managed, when the land bank becomes larger - there are already risks. "
As for the assessment of the maximum amount of land bank that the company can effectively control, then, according to Olga Romanova, the main thing is the issue of management, not the size of the enterprise. “First of all, you need a perfect control system, but I have never seen such a system in anyone,” she says. - Nobody canceled the human factor, the problem of theft is also urgent, people even find ways to bypass all kinds of GPS sensors, etc. In large companies, in this regard, the risks are always higher.
In the near future, large players will continue to grow, mergers and acquisitions will take place in the industry, but now more and more market participants are beginning to focus on improving production efficiency, increasing returns per hectare, and not just consolidating land banks, Kozachkov draws attention.

New Consolidation Model

According to Vitaly Sheremet from KPMG, the interest of market participants in land transactions and asset consolidation remains. “At the same time, we see new trends in the market: the use of a model that assumes the consolidation of smaller players around one large one, which can provide them with agricultural technologies, cheaper resources by combining purchases, and most importantly, the buyout of products. Thanks to this, it is possible to form large consignments of grain, to have a strong position in negotiations with traders, or to become a trader himself, the expert says. - An example of such cooperation is the Agroterra - Integrator project. We have already seen three or four such projects in Russia, and even more in Ukraine. " According to Sheremet, this model can become a challenge and a serious threat to large holdings, because in terms of the amount of land in management and the volume of finished products, such blocks of enterprises can compete with the largest latifundists. At the same time, given that the land bank is not concentrated in one hands, and small owners are usually more careful about production efficiency, this may lead to the fact that the economy of such enterprises will be better than that of large vertically integrated holdings. “And this, in turn, will help them to win in the competition, to the extent that large tracts of land will be leased to small players or sold in parts,” Sheremet suggests.

The "Big Seven" of the agro-industrial complex showed a revenue growth of 25.1% in 2015. On the first lines of the rating are holdings engaged in crop production and processing of vegetable raw materials, as well as producers of beef and pork meat. In 2016, the leaders of the agricultural sector increased their production and continue to develop investment projects.

The food embargo supports favorable conditions for the development of the Russian agro-industrial sector. The locomotive is large agricultural holdings that have access to government subsidies and are confidently attracting additional investment.

According to the Ministry of Agriculture, in 2015 in all categories of farms, including personal subsidiary plots, the average agricultural production index was 103%. At the same time, the revenue of the first "seven" for the same year increased by a quarter, and the operating results of the companies for 2016 indicate the continued growth of industry leaders.

GC Agro-Belogorye

Registration region: Belgorod.

Owners: the main share of the holding (72.5%) is owned by Vladimir Zotov, deputy chairman of the Belgorod Regional Duma, entered the Forbes rating "200 richest businessmen in Russia 2016".

Specialization: pig breeding, dairy farming, plant growing, compound feed production.

Source: AC "Expert"

In 2016, the holding launched an investment project for 9.7 billion rubles. for the construction of new pig farms and auxiliary production (the direction is considered one of the most promising from the point of view of import substitution in the Russian Federation). Full capacity is planned for 2018. Pork production in live weight will increase to 217 thousand tons (+ 35% to current volumes).

Cargill

Registration region: Efremov, Tula region; Cargill, Inc. - USA, Minnesota.

Owners: Cargill is owned by the Cargill and McMillan families (88% according to Forbes), the dynasty is ranked 4th in the Forbes ranking of "Richest Families in the USA 2016".

Specialization: production of starch and starch products, compound feeds, sugars and sugar syrups, trade in grain and oilseeds.

Source: RBC http://rbc.ru/.

Cargill, Inc. In fiscal 2015, it generated revenues of $ 120.393 billion and net income of $ 1.58 billion, showing sales and profit declines of 11% and 19%. However, in Russia the holding continues to invest in the growing market: in 2016, a new project for feed concentrates was launched (the planned capacity is 50 thousand tons per year by the end of 2017), the volume of investments is 1.74 billion rubles. The company announced plans to invest in 2017-2018. in the development of the direction of oil products 10 million dollars

Rusagro

Registration region: Moscow city.

Owners: head structure Ros Agro Plc (Cyprus), the main beneficiary Vadim Moshkovich, owns 70.7% of the holding's shares.

Specialization: cultivation of sugar beets, cereals and other agricultural crops, pig breeding, sugar production from sugar beets, production and processing of vegetable oil.

Source: RBC http://rbc.ru/.

Cherkizovo Group

Registration region: Moscow.

Owners: MB Capital Partners Ltd - 61.01%, Norges Bank - 4.89%; beneficiaries: the Babaev family - Mikhailovs (controlled by MB Capital Partners Ltd).

Specialization: production of meat products (chicken and pork meat, meat processing products) and compound feed.

Source: RBC http://rbc.ru/.

Efko group of companies

Registration region: Voronezh; Moscow.

Owners: information about the beneficiaries of the group is not disclosed; according to various sources, the largest share belongs to Valery Kustov (at the beginning of 2016 - 34.4%), chairman of the board of directors of the holding.

Specialization: animal husbandry, plant growing, processing.

The main goal of the project is to identify the largest agricultural companies and food processing enterprises that have a serious impact on the development of the country's agro-industrial complex, as well as to analyze the effectiveness of their work.

Data collection was carried out in three stages. At the first - preparatory - based on the study of open sources, a list of 300 applicant companies was formed. At the second stage, they were questioned. On the third, the missing information was filled in by analyzing statistics, corporate reporting, assessments of sectoral ministries and research organizations, as well as data from the SPARK-Interfax system.

The main criterion for ranking is the volume of sales proceeds. Subsidiaries whose indicators are consolidated in the statements of parent holdings were not included in the main list in order to avoid double counting.

Labor productivity and dynamic development were chosen as additional criteria for compiling sub-ratings. The productivity of enterprises in the sphere of animal husbandry and processing of agricultural products should be understood as revenue from sales per employee. Under the productivity of enterprises in the field of crop production - the proceeds from sales per 1 hectare of the land fund. Companies with a positive net profit for 2014 and a land fund area of ​​more than 80 thousand hectares were selected.

The list of ten fastest growing companies is ranked in descending order of revenue growth rate. Companies with positive net profit for 2014 were selected.

Igor Khudokormov remains the largest latifundist

The consulting company BEFL has released the traditional rating of the largest latifundists in Russia (data as of April 2016).

Infographics of the newspaper "Vedomosti"

1. Agroholding "Prodimex" and Agroculture

Agricultural land area: 790,000 ha

Owner: Igor Khudokormov

Interesting fact: last year Khudokormov acquired control of Agrokultura, a Swedish company with Russian assets, and BEFL counted their lands together. The representative of Prodimex does not agree with this: Agrokultura is a personal project of Khudokormov and is not included in the perimeter of Prodimex's business.

Agricultural land area: 594,000 ha

Owners: the Linnikov brothers

Interesting fact: In the first quarter of 2016, ABH Miratorg acquired another 100,000 hectares for pasture for cows (beef production project). Thus, now under the control of the agricultural holding about 500,000 hectares of pastures and 200,000 hectares of farmland for grain production.

Agricultural land area: 594,000 hectares

Owner: Vadim Moshkovich

Interesting fact: Rusagro recently acquired 90,000 hectares from the Razgulay agricultural holding. At the end of 2015, the group also bought 20% of this company together with debts from Vnesheconombank.

Agricultural land area: 511,000 hectares

Owner: Vasily Rozinov

Interesting fact: in the Kursk region, Prodimex claims the assets of the bankrupt Ivolga holding of a Kazakh businessman.

5. Holding company "Ak Bars"

Agricultural land area: 505,000 hectares

Owner: Ivan Egorov

Interesting fact: within the framework of the complex, a closed production cycle has been formed, uniting blocks of enterprises operating on the principle "from field to counter". The products are sold through our own retail chains (more than 200 stores in the territory of the Republic of Tatarstan).

6. Agrocomplex

Agricultural land area: 456,000 hectares

Owners: family of Alexander Tkachev

Interesting fact: Among the newcomers, the top 10 companies included an agricultural holding owned by the family of the former governor of the Krasnodar Territory, and now the Minister of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev. In 2015, the Agrocomplex acquired the land of the large South Russian agricultural holding Valinor.

Agricultural land area: 400,000 ha

Owner: Vadim Moshkovich

Interesting fact: In 2016, the company plans to launch a soybean processing plant (soybean extruder) with a capacity of 10 thousand tons per year. A deodorizing and oil refining line is also being prepared for installation, which will allow the finished product to be delivered to customers.

8. Avangard-Agro

Agricultural land area: 370,000 hectares

Owner: Kirill Minovalov

Interesting fact: Avangard Agro is part of the structure of the bank "Avangard" Kirill Minovalov. Land bank - 352.6 thousand hectares. It specializes in the production of grain and industrial crops in the Voronezh, Oryol, Kursk, Belgorod and Lipetsk regions; there is also a meat and dairy business in the holding structure.

9. Krasny Vostok Agro

Agricultural land area: 350,000 hectares

Owner: Ayrat Khairullin

Interesting fact: Krasny Vostok Agro was founded on the basis of 64 agricultural enterprises of the Republic of Tatarstan. The holding has 8 mega-farms in the Republic of Tatarstan, each with an area of ​​more than 86 thousand square meters. m.

10. "Cherkizovo" and the company "Napko"

Agricultural land area: 340,000 ha

Owners: Igor Babaev's family

Interesting fact:“GC“ Cherkizovo ”and the company“ Napko ”are managed and controlled by the same group of beneficiaries,” reads the explanation to the rating. Both companies are controlled by family members of the founder of "Cherkizovo" Igor Babaev, it follows from the group's reporting.