On June 26, the agricultural holding "Volyn-Zerno-Produkt" (TM "Viliya") opened a seed processing plant in the village of Zvinyache in the Lutsk district — the same location where one of the company's key elevator complexes with a capacity of 55 thousand tons of single-time storage is already located. The paradox is that "Viliya" launched its first seed processing plant in Zvinyache back in 2016. The new one is not a replacement, but an expansion.
What and how the new plant produces
A production line with capacity of up to 12 tons per hour covers the complete cycle of seed preparation: receiving, preliminary and fine cleaning, calibration, gravity and optical separation, treatment, drying, and loading. The equipment comes from British company Perry and Danish manufacturer Westrup, whose cleaning and sorting machines have long become the industry standard in Ukrainian seed projects from Khmelnytsky to Sumy regions.
Westrup is a Danish company with almost 70 years of experience in manufacturing equipment for cleaning and sorting seeds and grain. Its solutions are used by agricultural enterprises worldwide.
Why a second plant if there is a first one
"Viliya" is not a monoculture producer. The company grows wheat, rapeseed, soybeans, peas, corn, durum wheat and rye on 52 thousand hectares in Volyn, Rivne, Lviv and Ternopil regions and has 1,300 employees. With such a land bank, dependence on external suppliers of seed material represents an annual financial vulnerability.
"Launching the new plant is of strategic importance for the company".
Yevhen Dudka, founder of "Volyn-Zerno-Produkt", during a visit from the head of Volyn Regional Administration
The vertical logic is straightforward: own seed means control over the quality of planting material, reduced procurement costs and the ability to sell certified seed to partners. "Viliya" already has flour milling complexes, a feed mill workshop and its own commercial brand of processed products — the seed direction fits into the same model.
Context: investments during war
Construction of the plant began before its opening — against the backdrop of an active planting campaign, which is itself significant: the company did not halt capital investments during the full-scale invasion. The group's revenue for 2025 amounted to over 8.4 billion hryvnias — a figure that allows financing such projects with its own funds.
- Land bank: 52 thousand hectares in four regions
- Elevator network: 7 complexes, totaling approximately 370 thousand tons of storage
- First seed processing plant in Zvinyache: 2016
- New plant: capacity up to 12 tons/hour, complete seed preparation cycle
The question of scale remains open: if the new plant is oriented only toward the holding's internal needs — 12 tons/hour for 52 thousand hectares appears sufficient. But if "Viliya" plans to enter the commercial market for certified seeds for external clients, then this capacity will either become a springboard or a bottleneck.
