On November 28, the III conference "Starch and Starch Products", organized by the Association of Russian Manufacturers of Starch and Molasses 'Roskrakhmalpatoka', was held. This year the event was attended by leading industry experts and representatives of Russian and international companies. The event was attended by specialists from Switzerland, Belgium, China and Russia. During the conference, a dialogue was held between producers and consumers of starch, forecasts for the development of the industry were given, issues of possible mechanisms for…
Russian Agricultural Bank JSC (the Omsk branch is Omsky Biocluster member) presented an expert vision of the development points of the pig sector at the international conference 'Pig Production 2019', dedicated to finding answers to the global challenges of the industry. According to the RusAg's forecast, a decrease in prices and an increase in prime cost by 5% in 2019 will lead to a decrease in the pork production margin from RUR 35 per kg to RUR 25 per kg… 
On December 5, a meeting was held between the Omsky Biocluster CEO Dmitry Romanenko and head of Vasilevsky's Farm Alexander Vinogradov (Ivanovo region). 
During the visit of the Russian delegation to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the Russian Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance agreed with the Veterinary Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Agrarian Development of Vietnam (DAH) the conditions for the supply of Russian pork and pork offal to the Vietnamese market, and also signed the corresponding veterinary certificate. 
According to the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia, agricultural trade between the Russian Federation and China continues to grow steadily. So, in January - October of this year, agricultural trade turnover increased by 9.5% compared to the same period in 2018, amounting to $ 3.93 billion. 
In November, the Expert Veterinary Laboratory of the Omsk Reference Center of the Rosselkhoznadzor (Omsky Biocluster member) received 68 samples of flushing from technological equipment as part of the production control of enterprises. 
On December 3, the Department of International Relations of Omsk State Agrarian University (Omsky Biocluster member) held a presentation of foreign practice in Germany within the framework of the LOGO Union 'Agriculture and the Environmental Balance with Eastern Europe'. 
The Leningrad region is implementing a large-scale mushroom production project with environmental concerns. 10,000 tons of mushrooms per year will be produced by the largest mushroom cultivation complex in the North-West of the region. The greenhouses of the agricultural company Vyborzhets occupied an area of 4 hectares, investment in the project amounted to RUR 5.6 billion ($ 87.88 million).