Omsk Experimental Plant at the Promtech-Expo Forum
March 21-23, Omsk Experimental Plant FSUE (member of Omsky Biocluster), presented an exposition of its equipment at the booth of the Siberian Industrial and Innovative Forum Promtech-Expo, organized by the INTERSIB International Exhibition Center, to demonstrate the opportunities and achievements of the industry not only from Omsk region, but also other cities of Russia in various branches of engineering and life-supporting directions. 
At the end of 2016, Yekaterinburg's Company Conditer Profi bought the main buildings of the Ishim Machine Building Plant (Tyumen region) with an area of more than 45,000 square meters in order to expand the production capacity of Slada LLC (produces products under the Conditer Profi trademark). 
Specialists from the Laboratory of Quarantine Phytosanitary Examinations and Surveys of the Omsk Reference Center of the Rosselkhoznadzor (member of Omsky Biocluster) found a seed of a dangerous weed in a batch of packaged seeds of Russian origin Mixture of Friendly Quartet Salad (batch No. 82). 
According to Eurostat data for 2016, the most expensive farmland was in the Netherlands - the undisputed leader in the cost of buying and selling agricultural land among all EU countries. According to a report by the Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat) on land prices in the EU member states, the purchasing prices for arable land in the Netherlands in 2016 averaged about 63,000 euro / ha, the German resource topagrar.com writes. 
Within the development of interregional cooperation, one of the leaders of the Moscow Regional Information-Breeding Center (RIBC) Alexey Voevodin visited SIBAGROCOMPLEX IC LLC, which performs the functions of the Novosibirsk region RIBC. 
The plant protection laboratory of the Omsk Reference Center of Rosselkhoznadzor (member of Omsky Biocluster) analyzed 195 batches (38083 tons of seeds of the crop in 2017). As a result of the research, the specific composition of pathogens is revealed, the degree of contamination of seeds of agricultural crops is estimated, which helps to select the chemical and biological disinfectants correctly. 
Pork producers are sounding the alarm: the market is close to oversaturation. Volumes of domestic production exceeded 90% of the demand and continue to grow. As a result, pork prices fell by 15% per year, which leads to a decrease in the income of pig producers and the withdrawal of small players. 
Agro-industrial parks will be built in 17 districts of Tatarstan to promote the sale of agricultural products, said Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan - Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan Marat Akhmetov.