Twenty landowners control 7,9 million hectares in Russia worth 471,6 billion rubles. The leader of the rating is the family firm "Agrocomplex" them. N.I. Tkacheva
Forbes first compiled a rating of Russian landowners in 2005. Then the most valuable land assets formed around the capital: the shares of collective farms near Moscow bought for a penny over the four years of the new Land Code, adopted in 2001, turned into expensive land banks. The list of the largest latifundists in 2005 included the structures of billionaires Dmitry Kamenshchik F 38, Alexandra Svetakova F 43, Roman Abramovich F 10, David Yakobashvili F 145, Gavrila Yushvaeva F 66, bankers Nikolay Tsvetkov F 66, Dmitry F 165 and Alexey Ananyevs F 148. The richest people of the country did not plan to engage in agriculture: residential areas, shopping centers, cottage villages and logistics parks soon grew up on the lands of former state farms and collective farms.
Entrepreneurs from the Forbes list in the new ranking of the most expensive land holdings use their agricultural land for its intended purpose. Agriculture, in the development of which the state poured hundreds of billions of rubles annually, has become a highly profitable business. In crop production, for example, the profitability of sunflower exceeds 33%, for sugar beets and grain, this indicator approaches 30%, and in the southern regions, the profitability of wheat can reach 50%. It is not surprising that people with serious money came to the agro-industrial complex. According to the Director General of the Institute for Agricultural Market Studies (IKAR) Dmitry Rylko, redistribution of land from small owners to large ones took place in the first half of the 2000s. “The process accelerated in 2008-2009, after a sharp rise in world prices for agricultural products,” says Rylko. “Another wave of mergers and acquisitions took place in 2014–2016, after the devaluation and the beginning of import substitution.”
Andrey Guryev is among the twenty largest latifundists in Russia F 26, Oleg Deripaska F 30, Vadim Moshkovich F 45, Vladimir Evtushenkov F 63, brothers Alexander F 131 and Victor Linniki F 132, Igor Khudokormov F 175. The most expensive land allotment is owned by the family of the former Minister of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev: the family company Agrokompleks im. N. I. Tkacheva disposes of 649 ha worth 000 billion rubles. In second place is the agricultural holding “Step” of Vladimir Yevtushenkov with 68,5 ha (412 billion rubles).
The largest land bank managed to collect the Miratorg of the Linnikov brothers - the company has 1 million hectares, but Miratorg is only third in terms of land value. The lands of the largest meat producer in the country are located mainly in the Central Federal District, where the price of an agricultural hectare is almost three times lower than in the Krasnodar Territory. In total, 20 rating participants control 7,87 million hectares (78 sq. Km) of agricultural land - this is slightly less than the area of modern Czech Republic (700 sq. Km). The cost of all land controlled by the twenty largest landowners in Russia amounted to 78 billion rubles, or $ 866 billion. According to Rylko, intensive transactions for the purchase and sale of land will continue. Where it leads? “Already, in fact, agricultural policy is being formed by lobbyists of large agricultural holdings,” said Igor Abakumov, associate professor of the Russian State Agrarian University named after K.A. Timiryazev. “However, there is a trap in this situation: in most agricultural holdings are credited to state banks and, in fact, can be nationalized at any time.”
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