EkoNiva considers dairy farming projects in Russia’s Tula Region

The regional governor wrote about his working meeting with Dürr on his channel on Max. In addition to investment projects, the two sides discussed potential cooperation between EkoNiva and agricultural producers in Tula Region.

According to Milyayev, agriculture, the food industry and processing are among the regional government's priority areas.

EkoNiva is Russia's leading raw milk producer. Entrepreneur Stefan Dürr founded the group in 1994. Its agricultural and processing businesses operate in 13 Russian regions.

Its operations span Voronezh, Kaluga, Kursk, Leningrad and Moscow regions. The group also has businesses in Novosibirsk, Orenburg, Ryazan, Samara and Tyumen regions, Altai Territory, Bashkortostan and Tatarstan.

Dairy farming, the group's core business, comprises 42 livestock complexes, including facilities under construction. In 2025, the group produced 1.45 million tonnes of raw milk by physical weight, compared with 1.35 million tonnes a year earlier.

Other business activities include breeding pedigree and beef cattle, seed production, crop farming and organic agriculture. The holding owns 648,000 hectares of land and ranks among the largest owners of agricultural land.