March 11, the Forum of Development Institutes will host at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Moscow. The agenda of the event will include issues of financial and non-financial support for projects of Russian companies with investment attractiveness and export potential, with a view to their further development. The Forum is organized by the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, Business Russia, Opora Rossii, Vnesheconombank, the Industry Development Fund, the Russian Export Center,…
The Ministry of Agriculture held a meeting with representatives of leading enterprises for the production of confectionery products and industry unions. The meeting discussed the development of export of confectionery products in the future until 2024. 
Export prices of Russian wheat fell last week, following the dynamics of US futures, which have fallen to many months lows, as prices on the world export market speak of a downtrend, the portal agrovesti.net reports. 
February 1 - 15, the Omsk Reference Center of the Rosselkhoznadzor (Omsky Biocluster member) received 156 samples, with which 477 tests were carried out. As a result, experts identified 18 cases of non-compliance with the requirements of regulatory documents. 
The Moscow region authorities are ready to provide up to 80% of the cost of dairy farm creating. This was announced by Minister of Agriculture and Food of the region Andrei Razin. 
Imports of palm oil in Russia due to EU bans and low world prices rose by 19%, despite the critical attitude towards it by the WHO and the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, which is soon ready to ban the use of palm oil in the food industry (from confectionery to butter), imposing ever more stringent packaging and merchandising requirements from 2018. 
On February 14, the site of the Russian Investment Forum in Sochi became the venue for the business session 'Industrial Clusters. How to Increase the Investment Attractiveness of the Regions.' The session was moderated by Andrei Shpilenko, director of the Association for the Development of Clusters and Technology Parks of Russia. One of the speakers of the event was the chairman of the Board of Directors of Titan Group Mikhail Sutyaginsky (Omsky Biocluster member, Titan-Agro LLC, is included in Titan… 
The Russian authorities should reduce the number of pigs and poultry of villagers or reorient them to help develop the export of these types of products, says Sergei Mikhailov, the general director of the Cherkizovo Group.