In the first three months of the season, Russian sunflower oil exports dropped to 302K tons, a year earlier, this figure was 522.6 tons. The current figure is the lowest in the last three years. 
Flour prices in Russia at the beginning of the year went up significantly, it was a reaction to the substantial increase in the price of grain, which occurred in early December last year, according to the Institute for Agricultural Market Studies (IKAR). 
January 14-16, Omsk State Agrarian University (member of Omsky Biocluster) became the venue for the 'Winter School' - training camps for the regional stage of the All-Russian Olympiad of Biology Students. 
China has culled 916,000 pigs after around 100 outbreaks of African swine fever in the country, the agriculture ministry said on Tuesday, as the disease continues to spread to new regions and larger farms. The disease has reached 24 provinces and regions since the first outbreak in August, roiling trade in the world’s top pork market and related sectors. China slaughtered almost 700M pigs in 2017. 
Ekoniva Group (Stefan Dürr) plans to build seven more livestock farms in Voronezh region by the end of the year. This was stated by the businessman himself, www.abireg.ru writes. The company, which is the European leader in the production of raw milk, is developing dairy farming in Russia. 
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Gordeyev estimated Russia's need for grain exports in the current agricultural year (July 2018 - June 2019) to 40M tons. The Deputy Prime Minister of Russia noted that such a volume is necessary so that "we maintain calm in the domestic market and have the right balance of production, residues and consumption."
The first in the New Year seminar of the StartUpAcademia Project School of Omsky Biocluster will be held in the Omsk Regional Business Incubator (111, Chapaev St.) on January 19 at 10:00. 
Retail prices for meat in Russia in 2019 will be stable, such an opinion was expressed by the head of the executive committee of the National Meat Association, Sergey Yushin.