Since 2021, over 8,600 agricultural companies have been established in Ukraine – for every closed farm, 2.5 new ones are created.

In the past five years, 8,644 farms were registered in Ukraine, while 3,416 ceased operations. Registration peaked in 2021 with 2,678 new farms, but after Russia’s full-scale invasion registrations dropped to 1,558. Since 2023 a gradual recovery has been recorded, with about 1,697 new companies annually.

From January to July 2025, 869 new agricultural enterprises were registered. The highest number of closures occurred in 2021 (1,070) and 2024 (685). In 2023, 536 farms ceased operations. Odessa registered the most new farms, with 612, followed by Kyiv (600), Lviv (597), Vinnytsia (591), and Dnipropetrovsk (535). The most closures occurred in Odesa (606), with also significant closures in Dnipropetrovsk (225), Khmelnytsky (201), Kyiv (199), and Mykolaiv (191).

Additionally, 1,738 farms relocated to other regions, mainly to Western Ukraine; 346 moved to Western Ukraine, including 166 to Lviv. Regions including Rivne, Volyn, Khmelnytsky, and Zakarpattia are also popular destinations for registration changes.