Russian Agricultural Bank JSC (RusAg) and the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation signed an agreement on a new mechanism of state support for lending to small and medium-sized businesses. 
Rospotrebnadzor and Rosselkhoznadzor offer to check food producers without prior notice of the visit to the enterprise, Izvestia writes. 
Omsk Chamber of Commerce and Industry (member of Omsky Biocluster), in conjunction with Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Government of Omsk region, invites to take part in the trade and economic mission of official and business of Omsk region to Tashkent (the Republic of Uzbekistan), that will be held within the framework of the II Uzbek-Russian Business Forum 'New Horizons of Cooperation'. 
Investments in grain processing in the Altai by this year will amount to 790 million rubles/$ 13.3 million (2016 - 588 million rubles/$ 9.4 million), the regional department for the food, processing and pharmaceutical industries reports. 
The amount of investment in the dairy industry of Novosibirsk region will approach 4 billion rubles ($ 67.5 million) in the next five years (including 3.5 billion rubles/$ 59 million - the company's own funds), agronews.com reports. 
The Kazakhstan authorities are taking measures to improve the investment climate in the country's agroindustrial complex, milknews.ru reported. 
The minimal economic effect from the introduction of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in the agricultural sector can reach 469 billion rubles by 2025 (about 2.8 trillion rubles in general in the Russian economy). Such prediction was made by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) following the results of the IoT application in Russia. This is reported by the Agroinvestor.ru resource. 
August 11, 2017, members of Omsky Biocluster - Omsk Experimental Plant FSUE and Saturn-Agro Research and Production Enterprise LLC - presented their products at a seminar in Kurgan.The event was devoted to the issues of modern machine building products and to technologies for crops cultivating in Western Siberia and the Urals, including grain-cleaning machines and equipment, modernized tractors of the K-700 series.