The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has provided a $5 million guarantee to cover risks under a $12.3 million loan granted by Credit Agricole Ukraine to Dniprovska Group. The announcement was made in an EBRD press release on September 24.
Through the EBRD’s Risk-Sharing Framework (RSF), the company will be able to extend repayment terms on its working capital credit lines with Credit Agricole and secure financing for poultry production. This funding is expected to help offset the rise in feed costs in 2025 and support further development of its poultry business.
Dniprovska Group, operating in Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions, is engaged in poultry meat production, sunflower oil processing, and grain cultivation. Since the start of the full-scale war, the company lost its poultry farm in Zaporizhzhia region and more than 40% of its land bank, which negatively affected production, logistics, and revenues due to population displacement.
Despite these challenges, Dniprovska ranks second among poultry producers in Ukraine, controlling 7% of the market. The company has restructured its logistics, focused on facilities in Dnipro, and increased exports, which now account for more than 50% of revenue, while continuing to serve the domestic market.
The EBRD remains the largest institutional investor in Ukraine: since 2022, the Bank has invested over €8 billion in the real economy, supporting energy, food security, infrastructure, trade, and private business.
Credit Agricole Ukraine, headquartered in Kyiv, manages assets worth approximately $2.8 billion, operates a network of 137 branches, and serves 380,000 clients. Around 50% of its corporate loan portfolio is in agribusiness, with 80% of agricultural clients maintaining long-term partnerships with the bank for over five years.
Dniprovska Group produces poultry meat, broilers, hatching eggs, and day-old chicks under the brands Znatna Kurka and Dniprovski Kurchata. On export markets in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Oceania, its products are marketed under the brands Ulas and Katkut.
The company’s hatchery processes 95 million eggs annually, while its yearly broiler production plan amounts to 45.5 million birds. The group includes Pivdenna, Katerynivska, and Dniprovska poultry farms. Additionally, the company manufactures granulated feed (over 225,000 tons annually) and processes soybeans (about 31,000 tons per year, 155 tons per day).
