TAS Agro is continuing to study industrial hemp as a niche crop for Ukrainian agriculture. The holding has been growing the crop for the second year in a row, testing not only field performance but also post-harvest handling, elevator operations and export potential.
According to company representative Yaroslav Stratutsa, the first hemp areas covered one hundred fifty hectares in Kyiv, Vinnytsia and Chernihiv regions. At the first stage of harvesting, the company received about one tonne per hectare, with seed purity at seventy nine to eighty five percent and moisture at fourteen to fifteen percent.
Storage is part of the technology
The company had to bring seed moisture down to base indicators. That detail matters because industrial hemp is not handled like a standard mass crop. It loses moisture quickly, but can also regain it quickly, so storage requires daily control of indicators and careful work by elevator teams.
Before the season, TAS Agro held additional training for laboratory staff and elevator workers dealing with the crop. The company says the technological process required deeper involvement from the team, because quality depends not only on the field, but also on drying, cleaning, monitoring and correct storage.
The harvested hemp seed has already been exported to the EU. That makes the experiment commercially relevant, even though it is still too early to judge profitability. The company still has hemp straw in the field and expects two more harvesting stages.
TAS Agro plans to sow the same areas again and continue working with industrial hemp. For Ukrainian agriculture, the case shows both the appeal and the complexity of niche crops. They can open export opportunities and diversify crop rotations, but require specific knowledge, separate handling and careful quality control.
If the technology proves stable, industrial hemp could become one of the crops that help Ukrainian farms move beyond commodity routines into more specialized, higher-value segments.
