The Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia has significantly increased the list of machinery and equipment for the food and processing industry, against which state support measures are applied. 
It is very early days yet, but researchers in Australia and the US have made what they claim are the first steps towards developing a vaccine for African Swine Fever (ASF). 
Foreign producers of agricultural machinery with a high level of localization in Russia should receive 2 billion rubles ($ 35 million) of subsidies from an additional 20 billion rubles ($ 350 million), budgeted. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting on the development of the agro-industrial complex. 
China plans to invest $ 200 million into the plant growing sector of the Republic of Kazakhstan. This was stated by the president of the Chinese-Kazakh Association of the Food Industry Kemelkhan Abilekov, reported on October 12 portal Abctv.kz. 
European countries are aggressively using agricultural subsidies, Russian Economic Development Minister Maxim Oreshkin stated at an informal meeting of WTO member countries' trade ministers in Marrakesh. 
The German chemical and pharmaceutical concern Bayer AG will sell its plant units to the BASF concern for 5.9 billion euros, the Bayer press-service informs. The sale will take place within the terms of the antitrust regulator to complete the transaction of Bayer with Monsanto. 
President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin called the expansion of the use of electronic certificates as the most effective way of combating smuggling of food products subject to sanctions, reports DairyNews.ru. 
The Deputy Governor of Tomsk region for Agro-Industrial Policy and Nature Management, Andrei Knorr, presented at the meeting of the subcommission on agriculture of the Russian-Chinese Commission for the preparation of regular meetings of heads of government projects implemented in the region in the agro-industrial complex jointly with Chinese investors.