The government has allocated 500 million rubles ($ 8.73 million) from its reserve fund to provide subsidies for the transportation of agricultural products and foodstuffs, including railways, in the current year. 
The poultry producers' union should take an active part in self-regulation of the domestic market, said Anatoly Kutsenko, director of the Department of Economics, Investments and Regulation of Agricultural Markets of the Ministry of Agriculture, at a conference call on the development of domestic poultry. 
March 28, the International Scientific and Practical Conference 'Contemporary Problems and Scientific Support of Innovative Development of Poultry Farming' was held on the basis of the Scientific Agricultural Library of Omsk State Agrarian University (member of Omsky Biocluster) with the participation of veterinary specialists from Omsk region, Tyumen, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Tomsk, Kemerovo, Yekaterinburg , Novokuznetsk, Chelyabinsk, as well as Astana (Kazakhstan) and Kiev (Ukraine). 
The Ministry of Finance of the People's Republic of China announced the introduction of duties on 128 American goods, stressing that this step should be seen as a response to the decision of the US administration to raise tariffs for imports of steel and aluminum. 
Russian Agricultural Bank launched a new loan product 'Seasonal Light' for seasonal works, aimed at the current customers of RusAg (Omsk branch is member of Omsky Biocluster) - small and micro business enterprises. Now the Bank's clients have an opportunity to receive targeted loans in the amount of up to 50 million rubles ($ 873 thousand) in an accelerated manner. Only two documents (a loan application and a certificate from the tax authority) are needed to obtain a loan of… 
The production of mixed fodder in Russia in July-February season-2017/18 amounted to 18.7 million tons, which is 9% higher than the same period last season. The main part of the production was made for poultry and pigs, whose livestock growth stimulates the increase in the production of mixed fodders. 
The Ministry of Agriculture of Russia proposes to introduce a mechanism for quoting palm oil in the territory of the Eurasian Economic Union countries. Deputy Minister of Agriculture Evgeny Nepoklonov said that this proposal was made after analyzing the volumes of import and ways of using palm oil in the country. 
The agricultural machinery park in Kazakhstan has become obsolete by 90-95%, the director general of Eurasia Group Kazakhstan Sergey Glocke stated, the portal Atameken Business Channel reported on March 26.