2025
The 2025 season, like every year in agriculture, turned out quite unpredictable. The most unknowns at the start of the season were related to crop rotation planning, especially on small and medium farms.
This was reported to AgroPortal.ua by the PhD in Agricultural Sciences, deputy director of the crop-protection development division of the DEFENDA brand of LNZ Group, Ihor Maliborskyi, during the "AGRO Champions. 10 years in agro" ceremony, where LNZ Group received the "Most dynamic growth on the crop protection market" award.
At the beginning of 2025 there was, let us say, no clear understanding of where the market would move, what the crop rotation would be, how the areas under one or another crop would change. The question especially arose about soybean. Such uncertainty was a subject of difficulty in planning the import into Ukraine of the appropriate range of crop protection products not only for our company, but also for all market players in general. Despite everything, LNZ Group managed to forecast and plan the supply of all the necessary DEFENDA brand products by 90%. Our clients were provided with the products they expected from us.
Ihor Maliborskyi said that due to difficult and abnormal weather conditions, demand in 2025 was higher than usual for certain groups of fungicides and insecticides. An unexpected increase in farmers' use of soil herbicides was also observed, primarily on sunflower and corn.
At the end of the season, a shortage of certain products was felt on the market. In the group of soil products, LNZ Group practically sold out all its warehouse stocks.
"The need for insecticides to fight lepidopteran pests grew. Especially on rapeseed that survived the frosts, there was a problem with the diamondback moth. There were not many products on the market that could work effectively against such pests. In the period when work on corn was already ongoing, the supply of products was quite limited. All crop protection suppliers, and we are no exception, everything that was in the warehouses went to the fields. This allowed farmers to avoid the consequences of this pest's action in the autumn period," notes Ihor Maliborskyi.
