The use of genetically modified organisms and antibiotics in the food industry is inevitable. This opinion was expressed in an interview with RNS CEO Rusagro Maxim Basov. 
Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Ivan Lebedev held a meeting with heads of educational and scientific organizations subordinate to the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia. The meeting discussed the issues of improving the system of financing agricultural education. 
The Russian-Chinese joint venture Tai-Yuan Agro-Industrial Cluster LLC will invest more than 6 billion rubles (more than $ 100 million) in the creation of an agro-industrial cluster in the Shkotovsky District of Primorsky Territory, the press service of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation said on Thursday. The total area of the complex will be 7,000 hectares (agricultural lands - 6.8 thousand hectares.) The resident plans to grow potatoes, grains and legumes. 
First half of 2017, the exports of Russian agricultural machinery increased 1.5 times to 4.1 billion rubles (more $ 68 million), the president of the Russian industry association Rosspetsmash Konstantin Babkin told to Izvestia. Information was also confirmed in the Ministry of Industry and Trade - exports grew due to state support mechanisms, as well as favorable ruble exchange rate. 
The first agroindustrial park will be built in Tyumen region in 2018. Now the Agency for Infrastructure Development of the region is developing the necessary design and estimate documentation. 
Russia still has a chance to take the leading position in the world on the use of scientific achievements in the agro industry, said Roman Kulikov, director of accelerated projects in agro-industrial biotechnology at the Skolkovo Foundation. 
4 - 9 August 2017, the delegation of Barleben and the Chamber of Commerce of Magdeburg (Federal State of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany) visited Omsk for a working visit. The German delegation will be headed by the head of the administration of the Börde district Hans Walker and mayor of the municipality Barleben Franz-Ulrich Keindorff. It will include: the head of the business administration department of the municipality Barleben Sven Fricke, the president of the Chamber of Commerce of Magdeburg Klaus Olbericht,… 
Market Research Store reports that the global agricultural market will reach $ 267 billion by 2022. The company notes that in 2014 the market volume was only 152 billion dollars.