Odesa region is the first in Ukraine in terms of the number of open and closed agricultural enterprises

Odesa region is the first in the South of Ukraine and in the country as a whole both in terms of the number of agricultural enterprises that started operating in 2021-2025 and the number of those that ceased operations.

According to the analysts of the Opendatabot platform, 612 businesses opened during this period, and 606 closed.

For comparison, 451 businesses opened in Mykolaiv region and 191 closed during this time, and 174 businesses opened and 123 closed in Kherson region.

Among the leaders in terms of the number of newly opened businesses are: Kyiv (600), Lviv region (597), Vinnytsia (591), and Dnipro (535). The lowest number was in the frontline Luhansk region (40), Donetsk (101), and Zaporizhzhia (147). However, agrarians in Chernivtsi (120) and Zakarpattia (171) regions are not very active in opening their businesses.

As for closures, there are a lot of them in Dnipropetrovska (225), Khmelnytska (201), and Kyivska (199) oblasts. The fewest closures are in Luhansk (21), Donetsk (49), Ivano-Frankivsk (49), and Kyiv (55).

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In total, more than 8 thousand agricultural companies have been opened in Ukraine since 2021, according to the Unified State Register. The peak occurred in the year before the full-scale invasion, when 2,678 agribusinesses opened in a year. At the same time, another 3.4 thousand companies ceased operations from 2021 to 2025.

1,738 agricultural companies relocated to other regions during this time. Of these, 346 agribusinesses have moved to the western regions of Ukraine over the past 5 years. Almost half of the relocators who decided to move to the west chose Lviv region as a new business location - 166 companies. Rivne region (54 companies), Volyn (39), Khmelnytsky (30), and Zakarpattia (19) are also in demand among businesses that change their residence.

Кирило Бойко