Priority in the distribution of fertilizers Department of Smolensk region on agriculture and food gives to the farms cultivating rapeseed, flax, potatoes and vegetables, and forage crops.

This year, the area of spring crops in the Smolensk region amounted to 170 thousand hectares, which is 3% higher than in 2017. In 2017 Smolensk APK produced 242 thousand tons of grain and leguminous crops.

According to the Governor of Smolensk region Alexey Ostrovsky, "thanks to effective team work built between the regional administration and the management of JSC "Dorogobuzh", the agricultural producers of the region on a grant basis to receive support in the form of mineral fertilizers. PJSC "Dorogobuzh" annually unloads fertilizer, allowing our farmers to save tens of millions of rubles".

Smolensk farmers to increase the purchase of mineral fertilizers Dorogobuzh production. Seven and a half months 2018 households have acquired more than 14,400 tonnes of NPK and ammonium nitrate, 21.6% higher than the same period last year.

Additional information:

The Acron group is one of the leading vertically integrated mineral fertiliser producers in Russia and the world. Chemical enterprises of the Group located in Velikiy Novgorod (JSC Acron) and Smolensk region (JSC "Dorogobuzh"). The group maintains its own phosphate raw materials in the Murmansk region (JSC "NWPC") and implements the project to develop potash deposits in Perm Krai (VPC), has its own transportation and logistics infrastructure that includes three port terminals on the Baltic sea, and sales networks in Russia and China. A subsidiary of JSC Acron, North Atlantic Potash Inc. (NAP) owns the mining licenses 13 areas of deposits of potassium salts Evaporite Prairie in Saskatchewan (Canada). Acron also owns a minority stake (19,8%) in the Polish company Grupa Azoty S. A., one of the largest chemical manufacturers in Europe.

In 2017 the sales volume of the Group amounted to 7.3 million tons of various products. Deliveries were carried out in 65 countries. The main markets of the Group are Russia, Brazil, Europe and the United States.

In 2017, the consolidated revenue of the Group under IFRS amounted to 94 342 million rubles ($1 617 million U.S. dollars), net profit – 14 260 million (244 million USD). Shares of PJSC "Akron" is included in the quotation list of the first level of the Moscow exchange, the global Depository receipts are traded on the London stock exchange (Ticker AKRN). The staff of Acron Group has about 11 thousand people.

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