OREANDA-NEWS. September 03, 2013. PJSC "CREDIT AGRICOLE BANK" together with  the national agricultural portal Latifundist.com and "ODA Ukraine" went to the AgroExpedition.

Mikhail Heraschenko, Deputy Director for corporate clients and SME in Poltava Interregional Directorate of PJSC "CREDIT AGRICOLE BANK". He knows all competent farmers in the area, so he was helping participants to navigate the terrain.

The main goal of the event was to assess the state of the corn fields in the regions of Ukraine that grow more than 6% of the national corn output.

It was the second AgroExpedition in the six regions of Ukraine: Chernihiv, Sumy, Kiev, Vinnitsa,Cherkasy, Poltava, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Kirovograd.

During the expedition participants visited farms and assessed productivity of corn fields by measuring the moisture content of corn, checking the level of technology of sowings and using other evaluation methods.

Vasyl Bielozerskykh, consultant on the agriculture business PJSC "CREDIT AGRICOLE BANK", who was the member of the expedition, told about the positive aspects of the event:
"A major advantage of the second AgroExpedition was specialization in one culture that allowed to connect production technology and the influence of climatic conditions for growing corn. Visiting fields of PJSC "MIRONIVSKY HLIBOPRODUCT", in which the company manages to get a record corn production with minimal use of fertilizers was the most bright moment".