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Zerno Zavolzhya

TD Zerno Zavolzhya was founded on October 11, 2007 and joined Group of Companies already operating in the grain market of the Volgograd region since 2003.

Activities of the Group include wholesale trade in grains, oilseeds, legumes and industrial crops; storage, processing, drying and shipment of agricultural crops by road and rail transport, production of agricultural products.

The total staff of all structural divisions exceeds 800 people.

The main activity of the Group of Companies is production, storage and sale of agricultural products. The enterprises of the Group are actively engaged in trade and procurement activities focused on the supply of agricultural products both for export and for the domestic market of the Russian Federation. TD Zerno Zavolzhya, Rubikon and Veles which specialize in trading activities are the main enterprises of the Group.

Agricultural commodities are purchased in the Volgograd, Krasnodar, Rostov, Saratov, Samara, Voronezh, Tambov, Belgorod, Kursk, Penza Regions, in the Stavropol Territory, in the republics of Kalmykia and Adygea. Subsequent shipment of purchased agricultural products is carried out through 13 own elevators, 8 of which are modern, high-tech elevator complexes, put into operation in 2015-2021.

One-time storage capacity of agricultural products of all elevators is more than 458 000 tons, incl. minimum 280 000 tons located in the Volgograd region, 10 000 tons in Voronezh, 48 000 tons in Saratov, 80 000 tons in the Krasnodar Territory, 40 000 tons in the Tambov region.

Since 2013, Zerno Zavolzhya Trading House has reached the minimum average annual volume of grain and oilseeds transshipment of 1 MMT, at the end of the 2019/20 agricultural year - more than 1.9 MMT, and 2.4 MMT in 2020/21.

In 2021/22 out Trading House "Zerno Zavolzhya" sold agricultural products in the following ways:

  • exported 0.55 MMT directly;

  • supplied 1.4 MMT to the ports of the Russian Federation with subsequent sale to export companies;

  • supplied 0.45 MMT (incl. 0.2 MMT of sunflower seeds) to the domestic market of the Russian Federation (flour mills, feed mills, oil extraction plants).

The network of our elevator complexes has a significant advantage over similar competitors in the Russian Federation in terms of the structure of the logistics chain. Agricultural producers who are members of the Group cultivate more than 110 000 hectares of arable land and occupy leading positions in agricultural production in their regions.

Since 2017, the agricultural holding has been actively developing digitalization of the activities. As a result, almost all of the business processes were changed with the help of our own software package.

In 2019, the Group of Companies Trade House Zerno Zavolzhya purchased 30 mobile laboratories, which make it possible to determine the quality of purchased products directly in the field or warehouse of an agricultural producer.