TAS Agro targets 3 mln tons grain exports from Ukraine in three years after launching trading unit

Ukraine’s TAS Agro plans to increase grain exports to 3 million tons within three years by expanding its trading operations, CEO Oleh Zapletniuk said.

“The goal is to increase exports 7.5 times to 3 million tons within three years,” he said.

The company launched its trading arm, TAS Agro Trade, in July 2025. It is headed by Denys Miahkov, who previously worked at global agribusiness Syngenta, Kherson-based Agrofusion and Mykolaiv-based Nibulon.

According to Zapletniuk, the key task for TAS Agro’s trading unit is to fully load the group’s eight grain elevators, which have a combined storage capacity of 400,000 tons. In recent years, they have been underutilised.

EBITDA from the elevator segment fell by 95% compared to 2023, said Yaroslav Stratutsa, head of TAS Agro’s elevator department, at the UCABAgTech 2025 conference. Despite this, the company invested $1 million in their development this year.

Last year, TAS Agro exported nearly 400,000 tons of grain. The trading unit is expected to more than double this volume in its first year to 1 million tons, Zapletniuk said.