After the opening of the land market for legal entities, the company related to the family of Expatable Petro Poroshenko, began to actively buy agricultural land through Prozorro.Sale. Their activity has already changed the price dynamics in the market and has led to the transformation of land policy in Ukraine.
According to Economic Truth, companies associated with Poroshenko's family have already purchased at least 2,000 hectares of land, another hundred are at the design stage. The main concentration of activity is in the Vinnytsia region, where Roshen Corporation has traditionally operated.
The most active buyers are Podillya Land Investment and UPI-Agro Land Investment, created at the end of 2024. They buy communal property or legal encumbrances. Some of these lands are already in charge of PC Podillya PJSC, which also belongs to Poroshenko.
Thanks to rent control, these companies are able to buy land even higher than average market prices. Most agreements are issued within 70-85 thousand UAH per hectare, which is 40-50% higher than the average level in the country.
In parallel, the companies of the agrarian magnate and the People's Deputy Andriy Verevsky, the owner of Kernel. Its structures ("land land", "land house", etc.) concentrated the buying in the Khmelnytsky and Poltava regions and have already approached the legal limit of 10 thousand hectares.
From the beginning of 2025 the average price of a hectare of land has increased to UAH 53 thousand-against 40 thousand UAH in December 2023. The agreements related to Poroshenko and Verevsky are recorded at the level of UAH 60-85 thousand per hectare, which creates a parallel segment with high cost.
According to the law, legal entities can buy up to 10 thousand hectares in one hand. This stimulated the creation of large land banks, mainly in politically and financially influential groups.
Experts pay special attention to the tax component. If in 2023 72% of the agreements were issued by regulatory monetary valuation (NGO), then in 2025 this figure fell to 45%. In legal entities, only 22% of sales are made for NGOs, instead of physical - and still 56%. This indicates higher budget revenues, but at the same time - the concentration of the market.
Summary: Companies related to Poroshenko and Verevsky are currently forming the largest private land banks in Ukraine. Their activity creates new rules of the market - both in terms of price and in terms of access to resources for smaller farms.
However, experts are already starting - the excessive concentration of land in the hands of several players carries the risks of monopolization, displacement of small farmers and loss of transparency in one of the most important sectors of the Ukrainian economy.
