The group of companies Svetlyi is the largest agricultural enterprise in the north of the Rostov region. State Farm «Svetlyi»; was formed on March 2, 1982. In 1993, the Svetlyi Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) was created, in 1998 it was reorganized into the Svetlyi Agricultural Production Cooperative (APC), in 2010 the Svetly APC was transformed into Svetly LLC. By joining APC “Luch”, APC “Podtelkova and Krivoshlykova”, LLC Donskoy Bread, APC Kalininsky, APC Rassvet,
APC Stepnoye, LLC 21st Century, Zarya CJSC, Pobeda LLC , Rodina LLC, Kasharskiy District and Rodina LLC, Chertkovsky District, Kalitva OJSC, Malchevsky Elevator LLC, Zelenaya Roshcha LLC, one of the leading agricultural enterprises in the Rostov Region, was established with high productivity and efficiency.
The main activity of the company is crop production. The total area of arable land is 184,000 hectares. The company is engaged in the cultivation of winter wheat, sunflower, barley, chickpea, corn, sorghum, millet, safflower, and flax. The share of early grain crops in the Don Loaf is 3.5%. The group of companies «Svetlyi»; includes 9 legal entities, which include 20 branches formed on a territorial basis. The branches are located in Kasharskiy, Sholokhovsky,
Chertkovsky, Millerovsky and Verkhnedonsky districts of the Rostov region. The head office of the company is located in the Kasharskiy district of the Rostov region, with Kamenka. In the structural units of the group of companies Svetlyi there are 1000 employees. The material and technical base of the company has about 800 units of equipment, 184 of which include harvesters, 450 tractors, 85 heavy trucks. The entire fleet of the enterprise is equipped with aGLONASS satellite system.
The company is actively engaged in the development of animal husbandry. Currently the company has 1,100 cattle of Kalmyk breed. Since the beginning of 2017, an on-farm program has been implemented to modernize the farm and increase the breeding stock to 1000 heads. The group of companies Svetlyi invests significant resources in the development of agriculture in the Rostov region. Prospects for the development of the company are connected with the launch of new production facilities and technological solutions that will increase labor productivity, increase energy efficiency of production, and reduce production costs. The group of companies Svetlyi seeks to reduce the impact of human industrial activity on the environment. In order to realize this goal, in January 2018, a workshop for the production of fuel
pellets from the waste of primary processing of agricultural products — sunflower husks and other bioresources was launched in the group of companies Svetlyi. The planned production volume of clean fuel is 7 thousand tons per year.
The use of biofuels of this type will reduce the negative impact on the environment and preserve natural resources.