Forbes for the first time included an agricultural holding from Tatarstan in the rating of the largest landowners of Russia

The rating of the largest landowners of RUSSIA, according to FORBES, was again headed by the company of the family of the former Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Alexander Tkachev - Agrocomplex named after. Tkachev. The family firm of the ex-head of the Ministry of Agriculture owns vast land plots in the most expensive regions of the country (660 thousand hectares in the Krasnodar and Stavropol Territories, the Rostov Region and Adygea) with a total value of 88.6 billion rubles.

For the first time, the holding company " Ak Bars " of Ivan Egorov entered the rating . Tatarstan agricultural holding took 18th place. The company owns 354 thousand hectares of agricultural land, the magazine estimates the cost of the land at 12.4 billion rubles.

HC "Ak Bars" was founded in 1998 as a subsidiary of Ak Bars Bank, since 2003, a block of the agro-industrial complex began to form within it. Today, the company owns 14 enterprises that produce 14 thousand tons of pork MEAT, 11 thousand tons of cattle meat and 57 thousand tons of chicken meat. Also, HC Ak Bars is engaged in crop production, grain processing and MILK production - in 2019 it took fourth place in the ranking of the largest milk producers with a milk yield of 125 thousand tons, writes Forbes.

The second line of the rating is occupied by Prodimex by Igor Khudokormov with 892 thousand hectares of land worth 65.1 billion rubles. The top three is closed by Miratorg , the brothers Alexander and Viktor Linnikov, with the country's largest land bank of 1 million hectares worth 49.1 billion rubles.

In total, the value of land plots owned by the 20 largest latifundists in Russia increased from 471.6 billion to 617.3 billion rubles over the year. The publication notes that this was facilitated by rising prices for land, especially in the Central Black Earth region. The reason was the high profitability of crop production in recent years, the active lending of transactions in agriculture by Russian banks and the emergence of non-core investors in the sector.