EkoNiva Group, the largest milk producer in Russia and Europe, has presented its unaudited consolidated financial statement* for the nine months of 2021 ended 30 September.

EkoNiva Group has taken part in the 3rd agro-industrial forum Milk of Russia - 2021. On 10 December, the final day of the event, EkoNivaAgro opened the doors of Dobrino dairy for the forum attendees. The farm is designed for 2,800 head of milking herd and 4,000 head of young stock. During the tour of the facility, the specialists gave an overview of the production processes and demonstrated the animals’ comfortable housing conditions and the state-of-the-art technologies applied in cattle and crop farming. The issue of modern farm management software, in particular, the Selex database, Dairy Comp 305 (VAS) as well as EkoNiva’s proprietary feeding software Eko.Feed and Eko.Crop, was also covered in detail.

The Russian Agricultural Bank has resumed financing of EkoNiva Group in order to enable completion of the ongoing construction of three dairy facilities in Moscow oblast, Tatarstan and Bashkortostan with a total housing capacity of 9.9 thousand head and a total expected milk output of 100,000 tonnes per year, and implementation of a number of other projects in a high degree of completion.

In late November, Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, hosted the International Specialised Exhibition for Agriculture UzAgroExpo-2021. EkoNiva Group, the largest raw milk producer in Russia, participated in the event for the first time. The group of companies presented its core businesses as well as got a sense of the specific nature and needs of Uzbekistan’s agricultural sector.

On 25-30 November 2021, EkoNiva held a crash course in team building for the key employees of the company on the premises of Kaluzhskaya Niva.

The largest milk-producing holding in Russia – EkoNiva Group – has congratulated mothers with many children who work on its farms and plants on the Mother’s Day. Over 390 women in the company have three and more kids. In the nearest future, they will receive valuable presents.

EkoNiva Group, the largest raw milk producer in Russia, has reported the results the fodder harvesting campaign 2021. This year, the enterprises has prepared almost 800,000 tonnes of roughages for cattle, which is in line with last year's results. Thus, the cows are going to be fully provided with natural feed. EkoNiva’s total herd is over 215,000 head of cattle including 110,000 dairy cows.

EkoNiva delegates have joined the international multi-industry trade mission of Russian exporting companies, which took place from 10th to 12th November in Bishkek. Boosting Russian exports to Kyrgyzstan was the focus of the event organised by the Russian Export Centre together with the Russian-Kyrgyz Development Fund.

Employees of Stupinskaya Niva, EkoNiva Group, have been granted Letters of Gratitude and Certificates of Appreciation from the Ministry of Agriculture of Moscow oblast, Duma of Moscow oblast and Administration of Stupino district. The award ceremony was held at the meeting dedicated to the performance of regional agriculture in 2021 with participation of Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food of Moscow oblast Igor Zharov and Head of Stupino municipal district Sergey Muzhalskikh.

All EkoNiva Group holdings have taken part in Siberian Agricultural Week 2021, a trade fair in Novosibirsk, to present the dairy lineup made from the milk produced on the company’s own farms, field crop seeds, pedigree cattle and farm machinery of global brands.