EkoNiva Group, Russia's largest dairy holding, has announced the start of sugar beet harvesting in Kursk oblast. Belsakhar, a plant within the Group, will resume operations in the 2023/24 farming season to process the crop.

EkoNiva's enterprise in Voronezh oblast hosted a team-building event called Intern 2023 from 6 to 8 September. It was held as part of the Internship training project, bringing together 36 young specialists from 5 company’s geographies.

In the 2023/24 academic year, EkoNiva will open the first specialised class, so called agriclass, in the region together with Kursk State Agricultural University. High school students will be introduced to modern farming and trained to enter secondary vocational and higher education institutions.

A delegation headed by Aleksandr Gusev, Governor of Voronezh oblast, has paid a visit to Ozyorki dairy designed for 3,550 cows and 3,600 young animals. The head of the region met with the managers of Voronezh enterprise of EkoNiva Group and praised the company's contribution to the development of the local dairy farming.

The twelfth session of MoSt, the all-Russian agricultural student team Milk Standard, has come to an end at EkoNiva's production facilities in Voronezh, Ryazan and Orenburg oblasts. Seventy-nine students from fourteen higher and secondary vocational education institutions of the country worked at the company's enterprises.

EkoNiva Group, the largest raw milk producer in Russia, has expanded its organic herd size. Savinskaya Niva farming enterprise located in Kaluga oblast received Simmental cattle: 108 bred heifers, 115 heifers and 6 bulls. This will increase milk yields on the organic farm by one and a half times in the long term.

EkoNiva Group has confirmed its status as Russia's largest dairy holding. For seven years in a row, the company has taken the lead in the ranking of raw milk producers prepared by the analysts of the National Association of Milk Producers (Soyuzmoloko), Milknews industry-specific agency and Streda Consulting.

EkoNiva-Semena has organised its first field event in Kazakhstan together with its partner Oksanovka-1. The seminar called Formula for Success was held on the premises of the farming enterprise in Astrakhanka district, Akmolinskaya oblast. Over 60 representatives of both large agricultural holdings and small companies from Akmolinskaya, Kostanay, Karaganda and North Kazakhstan oblasts attended the large-scale meeting in the format of a Field Day.

EkoNiva has run its annual crop production workshop in the Volga region. It was the biggest local event in terms of both the number of attendees and variety of services involved in crop farming.

EkoNiva Group's operating results for the first half of the year show a strong growth in all of its areas of activity.