Ivan Andriichuk: Alongside financial motivation, there is also ideological motivation

Quick Interview with the Executive Director of the Kyiv Cluster of the Agro-Region Group of Companies, Ivan Andriichuk

What strengths of the Agro-Region team can you highlight?

Ivan Andriichuk: The Agro-Region team is united by a common goal, cohesion, a results-oriented approach, and team engagement at every stage of production activities.

How do you motivate your team?

Ivan Andriichuk: Alongside financial motivation, we emphasize ideological, team, and individual motivations. Key aspects include loyalty, support for internal communication within the team, involving team members in joint projects, and encouraging initiatives.

What do you value most in people?

Ivan Andriichuk: Responsibility, team spirit, self-discipline, professionalism, dedication to work, persistence, and openness.

How do you collaborate with landowners and local communities? What is the easiest and most challenging part?

Ivan Andriichuk: We participate in social projects and community plans, organize large-scale social events, provide charitable assistance, and support children’s activities. Our work with landowners is based on principles of openness, accessibility of information, feedback, and high-level communication.

The challenges lie in the unpredictability of the situation in the country, which affects the planning of production activities and complicates financial forecasting. As a result, the company must first fulfill its obligations to the state and landowners.

In your opinion, what makes Agro-Region an attractive place to work, and how do you maintain a reputation as a good employer in the agricultural sector in Kyiv Oblast?

Ivan Andriichuk: Agriculture is one of the most promising industries in Ukraine. It provides essential food products for every consumer, making this sector socially significant.

Agro-Region’s reputation is built on the effectiveness of its work, achievements, proactivity, support for personnel under wartime conditions, and assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine and various related initiatives that bring us closer to a common victory.

Agro-Region is an active company involved in international projects, joint discussions of the challenges faced by agricultural producers under current conditions, attracting investors to sustain company operations, staying ahead in innovation, improving production capacities, and providing ongoing staff training and skill development. These factors contribute to a positive company climate and inspire people to become part of the Agro-Region Group of Companies.