July 7, 2025

Ukraine-based Aversterra looks to boost poultry population to 10 million birds

Ukraine-based Avesterra Group intends to increase its poultry population to 10 million birds, build a feed mill, and expand its land bank to 25,000 hectares, co-owner Dmitry Dobkin said in an interview with Liga.net.

"We will build poultry farms. We currently have capacity for 4.1 million birds. We need to develop this to 10 million birds per batch," Dobkin said. "In turn, this pace of development requires the modernisation of the existing feed mill or the construction of a new one. This is because the existing one will definitely not be able to cope with the new production capacity."

Dobkin said that the group had accumulated a land bank of 3,000 hectares for the construction of a modern poultry processing plant in the Volyn region. However, in order to be independent from external circumstances and provide the poultry farm with feed, there are plans to expand the land bank to 25,000 hectares of fields.

Dobkin said that another way to minimise production risks is to create the company's own incubation facility, including the formation of a parent flock.

"Then the entire chain, from egg to finished meat, will be ours," he added.

Avesterra Group was established in January 2025. It includes Volodymyr-Volynskyi Poultry Farm and Lutsk Agrarian Company, which produce 53,000 tonnes of broiler meat per year.

In June 2025, the group launched a processing plant, in which it invested €60 million (US$70.7 million). It is located in Volyn, covers 30,000 square meters, and has new treatment facilities.

Volodymyr-Volynskyi Poultry Farm accounts for about 5% of the Ukrainian chicken market.

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