“Crop Production 2026”: OTP BANK shares how to optimize agricultural production costs
OTP BANK JSC participated as a partner of the agricultural conference “Crop Production 2026. Science and Magic”, held within the framework of Grain Storage Forum 2026 and organized by ProAgro Group, the Ukrainian Elevator Association, Aggeek, and Agro Marketing Agency. The event focused on cost-efficient financing solutions for agribusiness, preferential state programmes and cashback offers.
The conference in Kyiv brought together more than 1,100 participants and guests and was dedicated to modern technologies for growing grain and oilseed crops, yield economics, and investments in deep processing.
During the event, participants had the opportunity to receive in-depth consultations at the OTP BANK stand, calculate potential credit limits and build their own cash-flow models for the current year.
In addition, Head of Alternative Sales Channels Agro Factory at OTP BANK, Pavlo Huzyr, together with the Bank’s client and owner of an agricultural enterprise, Dmytro Oliinyk, presented a practical case of a 2,000-hectare farm during the panel discussion “Agro-Financial Solitaire”, demonstrating how effective management and financial decisions directly impact the economics of agribusiness.
“As a bank, we finance the acquisition of agricultural land by legal entities for up to seven years under the state ‘5-7-9’ programme. This enables agricultural producers to optimize land lease costs and invest in their own land bank. In other words, farmers can purchase land today and reduce their rental expenses, which are expected to continue rising, along with land prices,” said Pavlo Huzyr.
He also emphasized that OTP BANK actively supports farmers in developing their land banks, modernizing production facilities and improving overall operational efficiency.
“We are among the market leaders in financing secured by future harvests and agricultural promissory notes. Today, financing secured by future crops can reach up to UAH 40 million. In addition, OTP BANK supports the modernization of agricultural production and finances the purchase of seeding complexes under the ‘5-7-9’ programme with EBRD compensation, as well as green projects, including the installation of solar power plants,” Pavlo Huzyr added.
Furthermore, the Bank has joined carbon certificate programmes. Farmers transitioning from conventional to minimum tillage practices can receive additional income ranging from EUR 20 to EUR 60 per hectare. OTP Bank also supports women’s entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector and places strong emphasis on business transparency: credit limits are determined based on companies’ officially reported financial results.
More details on the terms and conditions are available via the link.
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Public Joint Stock Company OTP Bank is a subsidiary of OTP Bank, which is the largest independent Central-Eastern-European banking group. JSC OTP Bank is one of the largest domestic banks, a recognized leader in the financial sector of Ukraine. The Bank provides a full range of financial services to corporate and private customers, as well as to small and medium enterprises. The bank entered the Ukrainian market in 1998, and since then it enjoys a staunch reputation of socially responsible, reliable and stable institution providing its consumers with services of European quality standard.
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