Amur region increases soybean and grain export
This year, the export of soybeans from Amur region will grow by one and a half times, said the representative of the regional ministry of agriculture Yelena Emelyanova. As for soybean oil, Amur farmers will sell it abroad 1.3 times more than last year, grain - twice, according to the Sfera Publishing House. 
Investments in the fixed capital of agriculture in the first half of 2018 increased by 22.9% compared to the same period last year and amounted to 166.3bn RUR ($ 2.47bn), according to Rosstat.
The company Ladesol-Tambov will build in the Industrial Park Uvarovo a plant for processing fodder grains to produce protein concentrate. Investments in the project will amount to 850m RUR ($ 12.54m), the capacity of the enterprise is 150,000 tons of processed feed grain per year.
Omsky Biocluster will take part in the VI International Forum Technological Development Technoprom-2018, which will be held in Novosibirsk August 27 - 30.
Russian agricultural machinery manufacturers within the framework of credit lines opened by Vnesheconombank (VEB) to the Development Bank of Mongolia, delivered to this country a large consignment of agro-machines, including dozens of units of modern agricultural machinery.
Since August 23, the US officially introduced additional import duties of 25% on a number of Chinese goods supplied to the country for a total of $ 16bn, the press service of the US trade representative said. Additional duties, in particular, will be extended to tractors and a number of positions of agricultural equipment.