Omsky Biocluster Association and the Foundation for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises (Fund for the Promotion of Innovation) signed an agreement on strategic partnership and cooperation. 
November 7, the Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, Denis Manturov, awarded young design engineers, the first laureates of the Ezhevsky National Award. One of the laureates became the student of the Omsk State Agrarian University (member of Omsky Biocluster) Arthur Danniker. 
First deputy head of the Ministry of Agriculture Dzhambulat Khatuov said that the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, if necessary, can implement grain interventions in early 2018, RIA Novosti reported. 
November 9, the first meeting of the Coordination Council of the Omsky Biocluster's Collective Use Center took place. 
Alexander Burkov considers it important not only to ensure the unconditional fulfillment of social assignments within of the "May" decrees of the President of the country, but also to envisage projects for the region development. More than 6 billion rubles ($ 101.24 million) from the grants allocated to the region in the amount of 8.5 billion rubles ($ 143.42 million) will be directed to these purposes. 
The international chemical and pharmaceutical concern Bayer will create a Technology Transfer Center in Russia. The company will transfer a bank of genetic data on the creation of new varieties of crops, as well as provide access to a mass of information in the field of digital agriculture, Izvestia reports. 
On the eve of the state visit of US President Donald Trump to China (November 8-10), supplies of American beef to the Chinese market resumed after a 14-year hiatus. The USA is the largest producer of beef in the world. 
Russian scientists begin work on the agricultural machinery robotization. This statement was made by the director-chief designer of the Central Research and Development Institute of Robotics and Technical Cybernetics Alexander Lopota, TASS reports.