Holding "Solar products" continues to work in the framework of the harvesting campaign-2017. Already removed more than 30 thousand hectares – 35% of the area of the holding. Completed the harvesting of grain and spring crops with a gross collection of more than 123 thousand tons.

– The yield of grain crops this season is higher than the target. For example, the yield of durum wheat and spring barley in two times more than we expected. Average winter wheat yield is 46.6 tons per hectare, barley and spring wheat - 32 centners from hectare, – said Deputy General Director of the holding "Solar products" on the agrarian direction of Dmitry Laboral.

Agrotransport the company with a fleet of 158 vehicles equipped with navigation system, transports the grain to the elevators. Acceptance of incoming goods is conducted in four of the 13 sites with a total capacity of more than 1 million tons.

In parallel with the end of the grain harvest in the fields of "Solar products" has started an active North. Already seeded 9 thousand hectares of winter wheat of the planned 29 thousand ha. in addition, today in Marksovsky district of the Saratov region have started harvesting soybeans in irrigation. Bean plans to collect with the area of 10 thousand hectares.

In General, in Saratov region, the harvest has exceeded 5 million tons of grain, the average yield on the farms of the region is 27 kg/ha. Russia, according to September 8, gathered to 104.8 million tons of grain.

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"Solar products" — Russian vertically integrated agro-industrial holding specializing in growing, production of vegetable oils and products based on them. Included in the top three oil and fat market.

The holding consists of agricultural enterprise Elevator complexes, oil extraction plants in Saratov region and Krasnodar Krai, fat plants in Saratov, Moscow and Novosibirsk, as well as trading house with a wide network of offices in Russia and CIS countries. The number of employees of the holding at the beginning of 2017 — more than 5.5 thousand people.

"Solar products" takes 2nd place in Russia by volume of production of crude sunflower oil, fats and Margarines for the industrial, 3-th place by volume of packaged margarine and 4-e a place in the market of mayonnaise, keeping the leading position in all segments in home regions. The holding company is in the Top 25 largest owners of agricultural land in Russia, in the management of the holding is 157 hectares of land.

"Solar products" is a key asset of the group of companies "the Bouquet", implementing projects in the agricultural sector, food industry, engineering, banking and property development business in Russia and abroad.