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The animals hear the drones coming
Farming in wartime Every time the drones fly over, the dogs start howling, the ponies start screaming, and the ostriches panic. They run around the aviary and crash into the fence in fear. “The animals hear these things coming before we do,” says farmer Vitaliy. The Russian long-range drones that torpedo Ukrainian cities and power plants always cross the valley where his company is located. “They fly in early in the morning. Then you hear the air defenses banging. Then the power goes out. It happens almost every night.” Farmer and poultry farmer Vitaliy (61) owns about a hundred hectares of land in the Kharkiv region. He grows grain, corn and potatoes on it. He feeds his animals with the harvest. He makes cheese and cottage cheese with the milk from his cows; he keeps his sheep and pigs for meat. He uses the sales to maintain the ‘eco-village’ that his farm has grown into in recent years. However, the harvest was poor this year. “We expected a new attack from the Russians,” Vitaliy...
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Ukrainian farmer in wartime
TGS business supported 60 farmers in 2023. We were involved in an aid project and deliverd seeds. We kept contact with the farmers and talked to them about the situation: Farmer Yevgen (33) runs his hand through the mountain of grains that has been in storage since...
Tiny Houses to Rebuild Ukraine
Tiny Houses to Rebuild UkraineWageningen, October 2022 Due to the war in Ukraine, many people have suffered great losses, as already over 800.000 Ukrainian families have lost their homes. This is a problem not only now, but for the coming years. As the estmimated time...
November trip to Georgia
Business venture in the CaucasusOpening of a subsidiary in GeorgiaRecently our CEO Jouke Spriensma went on a trip to Georgia, together with our newest recruits Christiaan and Ilia. TGS has opened a Georgian subsidiary (TGS Holland). TGS Holland will be used for the...
Development plans for a pig rearing business and vineyard in Ukraine and Georgia
TGS business has developed three sustainable agricultural business plans for pig rearing businesses and a vineyard in Ukraine and Georgia.
Expanding our agricultural activities to North Africa
Meet one of our most adventurous team members! Tijmen will move this July to expand TGS TUNESIA and explore the Tunisian market for us.
Learning new skills regarding irrigation
This week our colleague Bouke worked on his welding skills to make a stand for our own designed floating irrigation pump.