On September 22, a working meeting was held between Dmitry Romanenko, the Omsky Biocluster CEO, and Stanislav Noskov, Director of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Kurgan region. 
Joint efforts of the officials of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance - Rosselkhoznadzor (Omsk Branch) and experts of the Omsk Reference Center of the Rosselkhoznadzor (Omsky Biocluster member) led to the identification and confirmation of thin-stemmed dodder in three batches of pepper (20 tons, 17 tons and 20 tons). 
The business incubator of the Omsk State Agrarian University (Omsky Biocluster member) became the site of the Basic Schools of the Russian Academy of Sciences Project (in collaboration with the Omsk Lyceum No. 64). 
World's biggest rooftop greenhouse opens in Montreal to meet the growing demand for locally sourced foods. It's not an obvious choice of location to cultivate organic vegetables - in the heart of Canada's second-largest city - but Lufa Farms inaugurated the facility that spans 15,000 square metres or about the size of three football fields. 
The production of confectionery products in Russia from 2015 to 2019 increased by 11% and amounted to 2.05 million tons.The largest increase was recorded last year (3.4% compared to 2018). This was due to an increase in export supplies of products against the backdrop of a low ruble against the dollar. 
In 2020, the Chinese government approved the construction of 6,200 new pig farms, as the authorities would like to restrict pork imports, which in the first half of 2020 exceeded the total imports for the entire 2019. 
The Expert Veterinary Laboratory of the Omsk Reference Center of the Rosselkhoznadzor (Omsky Biocluster member) received 10 samples of dairy products for testing for the presence of Salmonella as part of production control. 
On September 16, as part of the ChemiCos-2020 exhibition, a final expert session was held at the Crocus-Expo Exhibition Center on the topic of introducing the best available technologies (BAT) that reduce the burden on the environment. As a result, the experts completed the formation of key proposals. Omsky Biocluster's CEO Dmitry Romanenko became one of the participants in the expert session.