Since the beginning of the year, the Department of Seed Production and Plant Protection of the Omsk Reference Center of the Rosselkhoznadzor (Omsky Biocluster member) received more than 134,000 tons of grain from the Omsk region to check for germination and contamination. Of these, experts had time to check more than 131,000 tons.
From May 14 to 17, Bulgaria held the largest international exhibition of agricultural machinery and equipment "BATA AGRO 2019". 235 companies from around the world presented their products on an area of more than 37,000 square meters. m. The exhibition was visited by more than 18,000 people. Russian agricultural machinery manufacturers presented their products at a collective exposition organized by the Rosspetsmash Association with the support of the Russian Export Center and the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia.… 
On May 12 - 16, guests of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences - associate professors of the Econometrics and Statistics Department Luisa Ochnio and Grzegorz Kosela visited the Faculty of Economics of the Omsk State Agrarian University (Omsky Biocluster member).
The quarantine pest (thrips) was found by experts of the Laboratory of Quarantine Phytosanitary Examinations and Surveys of the Omsk Reference Center of the Rosselkhoznadzor (Omsky Biocluster member) in a batch of lobelia seedlings brought to the Omsk region. 
Gross harvest of sunflower in Russia in 2019 is predicted at 12.3-12.4 million tons, Daniel Khotko said (a leading expert at the Institute for Agricultural Market Studies (IKAR). This is only 2.8-3.5% lower than the record figure of 2018, when production was almost 12.8 million tons. FAS USDA estimates the yield of agriculture in Russia at the level of 12.5 million tons. 
May 24-25 Siberian Cossack Institute of Technology and Management (Branch) of the Razumovsky's Moscow State University of Technologies and Management (First Cossack University), Omsky Biocluster member, conducts the XXth international conference Theoretical Knowledge - In Practical Matters. 
The European Union has canceled the anti-dumping import duty in force for the last five years in the amount of 62.3 euro / t for ethanol supplied from the USA, S & P Global Platts reports. 
On May 14, the Board of Trustees members of Omsky Biocluster StartUpAcademia took part in the reporting session of the Umnik Contest winners (organized by the Innovation Promotion Fund, Omsk Branch - the Omsky Biocluster partner).