The Ministry of Agriculture of China on Monday announced a forecast for the harvest of cereals, the volume of which will remain at the level of more than 600 million tons by the end of this year. 
January-September of 2017, the production of pigs for slaughter in live weight in farms of all categories amounted to 3.17 million tons, which is 4.5% more than a year earlier. 
Representatives of agricultural, construction, road and food machinery, deputies of the State Duma's profile committees proposed during the parliamentary hearings on October 16 to provide 22.5 billion rubles ($ 391 million) in the federal budget for 2018-2020 annually to subsidize the manufacturers of specialized equipment. 
Japanese food and chemical corporation Ajinomoto has acquired the majority shares of a Spanish agro-business, expanding its profile in Europe. Through its consolidated subsidiary S.A. Ajinomoto OmniChem N.V. in Belgium, the company has signed a share purchase agreement of majority shares of Agro2Agri SL which has agro-business subsidiaries in Spain with Dadelos SL its sole shareholder of A2A. 
Russian regions are ready to provide their areas for pilot projects to create organic farms for the production of grain (Izvestia referring to the president of the National Union of Grain Producers Pavel Skurikhin). 
China is considering the introduction of mandatory use of ethanol in fuel by 2020. Biofuels, known as E10, will contain 10% of corn ethanol. The largest producer of ethanol in China is the COFCO (state-owned company). 
The head of the Altai Territory Alexander Karlin sets the tasks of maximum grain processing precisely at the production facilities of Altai. 
October 31, 2017, The practice of the Omsky Biocluster's 'Genetics and Breeding of Cattle Practice' together with the Omsk regional branch of the All-Russian Public Organization BUSINESS RUSSIA holds the second track of the Winter Session of the Effective Livestock Interregional Program. The events will be held at the research and production site of the SIBAGROCOMPLEX Group (member of Omsky Biocluster).