Russia and Israel are increasing cooperation in the dairy industry
Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Alexander Tkachev held a working meeting with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Israel to the Russian Federation Gary Koren. The main goal of the meeting was the signing by the Russian side of the Memorandum, designed to expand and strengthen cooperation between Russia and Israel in the field of dairy cattle breeding. The document was also signed earlier by the Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Development of the State of… 
December 15, the Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food of Omsk region Alexander Kurzanov held the first meeting of the Working Group for the Formation of the Core Standards for the Meat and Dairy Livestock Efficiency. 
In December, experts of the Omsk Reference Center of the Rosselkhoznadzor (member of Omsky Biocluster) successfully completed the next annual inspection procedure, which confirmed the technical competence in the declared sphere of accreditation and the functioning of the quality management system of the Test Center laboratories. 
December 12-13 at the SIBAGROCOMPLEX Group training base (member of Omsky Biocluster) were field workshops for students of the Faculty of Zootechnics, Commodity Science and Standardization of Omsk State Agrarian University. This is the first track of the joint educational project of the Omsky Biocluster participants for the preparation and development of practical skills in the field of reproduction and breeding of cattle. 
The volume of subsidies to support agriculture in the Trans-Baikal Territory in 2017 exceeded 1 billion rubles ($ 16.92 million). This is 42% higher than last year, according to the press service of the head of the region. 
The Corporation for the Development of Small and Medium Enterprises (RSMB Corporation JSC) intends to support investment projects of small and medium-sized businesses in the sphere of processing agricultural products. Support will be in preferential leasing of equipment for processing agricultural raw materials. For this purpose, the corporation has already established two companies with a budget of 2 billion rubles ($ 33.81 million) each. 
United Grain Company JSC started paying the grain planned for export from the elevators of the Novosibirsk and Omsk regions, the press service of the company reported December 12. 
In 2017, the specialists of Omsk Reference Center of Rosselkhoznadzor FSBI (member of Omsky Biocluster) were trained at 15 advanced courses.