Liudmyla Ginner
July 2015

MAJOR CONSTRAINTS FOR THE INVESTMENT IN
UKRAINIAN FARMLAND
LOCAL SPECIFICS
• access to local authorities and good contacts with villages
• agricultural knowledge: crop rotation and growth
• local staffing, management, and control – multiple cases of fraud
SOLUTION
On-going support of the long-term investment by the independent third party with
• strong local expertise
• network in formal and informal circles
• experience in analysis of “arrangements” on siphoning off/theft of assets; reveal of shady
counteragents, non-standard business or financial transactions

SSC KIEV
INVESTMENT CONSULTANCY
Independent investigation
Technical due diligence of acquisition targets
Multipurpose marketing analysis
Strategy verification and assessment
Structuring and composition of business plans
Analysis and evaluation of competitors business models
Organization and structuring company`s financials according to international IFRS, GAAP
standards
Additional Services
for: private investors, investment funds, equity holders
our company guarantees 100% confidentiality and non-disclosure of information obtained in the course of
cooperation

In the course of a financial investigation our
expertise enables to establish:
Objective picture of the company’s financial performance
 Accuracy of financial and management statements presented to the owner
 Objective information on the condition of land bank, validity of leases and their registration in
Urban Planning and Land Commission
 Deals closed on knowingly disadvantageous terms to the personal benefit of staff
 Usage of budget and financing not as initially intended
 Unauthorized payments
 Purchase of inexistent services
 Overstated inputs prices and understated product prices

THE EXPERTISE:
Liudmyla Ginner
30 years of experience in operational and financial areas on all
levels from single-production units to large multi-national
corporations;
strong network within state, non-governmental and private
institutions;
unique on Ukrainian market;
focused on successful long-term investment strategy;
based on principles of honesty, responsibility and commitment to
the common value;
Among the partners are SGRF, SSC, large private investors (non-
disclosed)*.
*references available upon request

WHY to INVEST in UKRAINIAN FARMLAND
• 25% of the world “black soil” - 32.5 m ha of arable land
• typical farm unit size of 5,000 ha+ (5 times the EU average) leads to economies of scale
• Ukraine is world largest exporter of sunflower oil and one of the biggest exporters of corn, barley and wheat

FARMLAND IS AN ASSET THAN OVEPERFORMS
ANY REAL ESTATE CLASS
Resource: Savills Research and publicly available data

population will reach 10bn till 2050
farmland will be in deficit to feed increasing number of people
Resource: United Nations

GLOBAL FARMLAND PRICES
Resource: Bloomberg

Resource: World Bank

Resource: Fisher and Shan 2010

Ukraine could potentially boost
its grain production to
130-180M tons per annum or
3x current production levels and
become the
world’s largest grain exporter

BEST REGIONS FOR FARMLAND IN UKRAINE
Resource: Ukrstat

• De-facto indefinite ban on sale of agricultural land:
• Moratorium specifies that it can’t be lifted “until the adoption of law on turnover of
agricultural land but no earlier than 2016”.
• Average size of land plot is 4ha;
• All fields, except for those with state property, are divided into small plots, often with
number of deceased owners;
• Average rent is $50 per hectare.
REGULATIONS

WE CAN HELP YOU TO USE
THIS OPPORTUNITY!
THANK YOU
Liudmyla Ginner lginner@gmail.com
Anastasia Gutsol anastasia.gutsol@gmail.com