Farming for the future

Heritage in agriculture

With a long history in farming, the BONTRUP family business is keen to innovate with nature to feed society sustainably. BONTRUP Agriculture owns and operates about 22.000 hectares of fertile soil in the north east of Ukraine, managed by BONTRUP Ukraine. BONTRUP Ukraine was established with the aim of operating a large-scale agriculture operation for the long-term. For more than 14 years, BONTRUP is committed to invest in innovation, digitization and further growth of the sustainable agriculture methods with local partners in Ukraine

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22.000 hectares of fertile soil

The 22.000 hectares are particularly suitable for agriculture and dairy farming because of the type of soil and the favourable climate. The agriculture business focusses on cereals, oilseeds, industrial and fodder crops. The total gross collection of marketable products is on average 80 thousand tons per year. Crops are sold both in the domestic (sunflower, rye) and foreign markets (wheat, corn, rapeseed).

Innovative and sustainable agriculture

Feeding the world’s growing population, while facing challenges such as unpredictable weather, efficient control of diseases and pests, scarcity of natural resources and available farmland, makes the need for innovation in agriculture even more essential. These global trends are influencing the overall sustainability of food and agricultural systems. BONTRUP is committed to innovate and invest in sustainable agriculture methods to preserve soil fertility and reduce land depletion. In order to do this sustainably BONTRUP focusses on a number of measures ranging from scientifically proven crop rotation methods, preservation measures focused on soil structure to responsible and sustainable plant protection.

BONTRUP works in partnership with local residents and governments, such as village and city councils, to initiate and provide funding for the development of these programmes.

Support is provided to educational and medical institutions. Since the start in 2007 the ‘BONTRUP’ volleyball and football tournament have become an annual tradition. Over the past three years, about 2.3 million UAH have been allocated for charitable assistance to the population of the villages in the Shostka and Glukhiv regions.

300 employees working on the farms

Driven by the shared passion to innovate with nature, BONTRUP Ukraine’s 300 employees actively work to improve and protect the local environment and ecology. Collectively they make it is possible to achieve high yields, optimally using all production potential for the further sustainable development of the agriculture business, and at that the same time to preserve the land and the environment.