OREANDA-NEWS. July 01, 2013. NIBULON is one of the leaders of domestic agrarian market. The company cultivates 400 thousand tons of high-quality agricultural products on 81 thousand ha of leased land in 12 regions of Ukraine.

Geography of NIBULON’s production activity is branched, and diversification of production activity by climatic zones allows to ensure annual high yields of grain and oil crops. During past years the company regularly reduces sowing areas of spring barley cultivating sorghum, soya, winter rape, and other crops.

While increasing sowing areas, the specialists of the company study the world experience improving production standards, obtaining practical skills.

In June 2013 Monsanto Ukraine Ltd. (producer of seed, plant protection means and fertilizers) performed a specialized tour within Great Britain in order to familiarize partners with the European experience of DEKALB winter rape growing. NIBULON represented by Regional Production Director Oleksandr Gaiday was invited to participate in the tour. Oleksandr Gaiday took part in the tour from June 10 to 15 with the delegation of Ukraine’s agrarians.

The main goal was to familiarize with winter rape cultivation technology used by Great Britain farmers. During visitation of farms (including Childerley farm and a rape processing plant) the guests observed plant-breeding tests and industrial sowing, and also agricultural equipment which is used for tillage of soils, protection of winter crops. The guests saw stands with trailing equipment, seeding machines, sprayers, grain harvesters. The machinery test was performed on a specialized testing area.

During the tour the participants met with A. Word, an owner of RoyWarmFarmsLtd, and became familiar with rape cultivation technology by using direct sowing method and with systems of winter rape protection and feeding.

Particular attention was paid to one of the largest agriculture exhibition “Cereals 2013” in Western Europe. At the exhibition there were introduced modern developments of agricultural machinery produced by the world leading manufacturers, such as Case, John Deere, Fendt, Caterpillar, Massey Ferguson, Claas, Amazone, Kuhn, Vaderstad, and others.

The Ukrainian agrarians familiarized themselves with activities of Monsanto Company having visited its branches. In the company’s office there were held meetings with M. Clark, a head who is responsible for rape breeding in the southwestern Europe, and D.Holm, a commercial director of the company.

They also visited other seed producers, namely KWS, Pioneer, Lembke, Euralis, Monsanto. There were introduced demonstration fields of new types of winter wheat and rape, technologies of their cultivation, protection systems.

According to Oleksandr Gaiday, he gained priceless experience as to foreign conditions and peculiarities of winter rape growing taking into consideration soil and climatic conditions. According to him, rape cultivation technology implemented by NIBULON is not worse than a foreign one. As this crop reacts well only to high agricultural standards.