The company "Land Krai" LLC, owned by Tatiana Verevskaya - the wife of the famous businessman and Kernel agroholding owner Andriy Verevsky, became the largest buyer of agricultural land in Ukraine. The Minister of Agro -Policy Vitaly Koval has informed about it, emphasizing that the company has already bought 9 thousand hectares from the maximum allowed 10 thousand.
According to the minister, the opening of the land market for legal entities, which took place in 2024, gave active processes of concentration of land in the hands of large players. As of March 2025, 148,000 plots with a total area of more than 442 thousand hectares were sold. The average price of hectares increased from UAH 38.8 thousand to UAH 53.1 thousand, which is an increase of 37%.
The Land Krai Company appeared at the epicenter of attention not only because of the scale of the redeemed land, but also through the connection with Andriy Verevsky - the former MP and the owner of one of the largest agricultural holdings of Ukraine Kernel.
Verevsky's name has long been featured in numerous public investigations related to financial violations in the field of agribusiness. According to open sources, since 2016, through Kernel structures, such as PJSC “Poltava Oil Extraction Plant-Kernel Group” and Kernel-Trade LLC, large-scale schemes for withdrawal of funds, taxes, manipulation in stock markets and monopolization of exports of sunshine.
Agroholding critics claim that such actions have led to the loss of the state budget and violation of the principles of fair competition in the domestic market. In addition, part of Kernel has an international measurement - it is about stock exchange operations and structures registered in preferential tax jurisdictions.
We will remind, since 2024 in Ukraine the sale of agricultural land to legal entities is officially allowed. The law limits the total volume of land tenure to 10 thousand hectares in one hand. As the example shows the LLC "Land Krai", these limits have already been achieved by at least one of the key players in the agricultural market.
