JSC Schelkovo Agrohim leads the crop protection agent market, serves as a systemic company in the Russian Federation.
Schelkovo Agrohim is actively involved in the import substitution program: from development of active substances and creation of innovative crop protection agents to resurgence of domestic seed production.
Its primary focus is production of chemical crop protection agents. Production sites are located in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan. Total production capacity amounts to 90 million liters annually. Each product is individually labelled based on its batch according to the standard of GS1 international association for automatic identification. Today, the company's portfolio includes over 160 products, 90 hybrids and seed varieties of major crops and over 100 patents for its own inventions.
In terms of seed breeding and production, Schelkovo Agrohim focuses on creating an integrated commercial production cycle for seeds of major crops. Seed breeding and production centres (SoyuzSemSvekla, Betagran Seeds research and development company, Aktiv Agro), as well as centres for mass seed reproduction with a total area of more than 60 thousand hectares (Dubovitskoe, Betagran Seeds, Molvino Agro, Kursar, Pyshlitskoe Agro, etc.) were established in 10 Russian regions, and seed plants (Betagran Ramon, Begatran Seeds, Dubovitskoe, Silniye Semena) for industrial preparation of seeds for sowing were built and put into operation as part of the project. As a result, Schelkovo Agrohim offers high-quality seeds of highly productive Russian varieties and hybrids of crops such as winter and spring wheat, soybeans, peas, buckwheat, sugar beet, sunflower, and corn.
Schelkovo Agrohim invests in projects for production of cattle semen and embryos (Betagran Lipetsk), protective nets for intensive orchards against hail and birds (Betanet), intensive horticulture (Betagran Kuban), and pharmaceutical products (Betagran Pharma).