The agricultural holding HarvEast has chosen a strategy of further expanding its irrigated land area. In the Kyiv region, the company currently irrigates 1.1 thousand hectares, and also has the potential to develop irrigation on an additional 2 thousand hectares, reports ProAgro Group.
According to HarvEast CEO Dmytro Skorniakov, the implementation of irrigation projects on the additional 2 thousand hectares involves several separate stages, which are currently at different phases of preparation.
“Our company’s strategy at this stage is to increase irrigated areas by 500 hectares every year. We would like to expand faster, but this is a conservative and realistic plan — adding 500 hectares under irrigation annually,” he said.
Under irrigation, HarvEast grows seed corn, sunflower, commercial corn, and commercial sunflower. Last year, the company also cultivated grain sorghum and soybeans on irrigated fields. For irrigation, HarvEast uses both imported and Ukrainian-made irrigation machines, including eight systems produced by the domestic manufacturer Variant Irrigation. The company plans to continue cooperating with the Ukrainian supplier as it expands irrigation across its fields.
“Working with a domestic manufacturer has a clear advantage — it allows farmers to receive state compensation for the purchase of Ukrainian-made machinery and equipment,” Skorniakov noted.
Earlier it was reported that in 2025 the state allocated UAH 34 million to support 10 agricultural enterprises operating on reclaimed lands in Dnipropetrovsk, Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Odesa, Sumy, and Cherkasy regions.
Source: AgroPortal
