Where the Margin Is

International Conference

for agricultural producers
and suppliers of agricultural

inputs and services

January 31, 2013

Moscow, Radisson Slavianskaya Hotel

ikar.ru/wherethemarginis

Press release #8 as of January09, 2013

We continue the preparations for the 4-th International agricultural conference Where the Margin Is, January 31, 2013, Moscow Radisson Slavyanskaya Hotel.

During the agricultural investments Round table the representatives of Common Fund for Commodities (CFC, Netherlands), and KfW Development Bank (Germany) are to present their mutual investment attraction and promotion strategy for the Russian SME agribusiness.

Among the newly registered companies: Technomir-Agro, Eurotechnika MPS, Krasnodarzernoprodukt (major 60 THA agricultural production and grain export venture from Krasnodar krai), Traktor Plants Concern (Republic of Chuvashia), Promagro, Taranenko Farm (4 THA private farm, including 3 THA on irrigation, Rostov region), Yug Rusi (major domestic agroholding, headquartered in Rostov), BASF, Ernst & Young, Eris Flour Mills (Turkey),and other companies and organizations.

As of the beginning of January,the Conference «land bank» reached 4.8 MHA of arable land.

Among the Conference participants:

The representatives of major domestic agroholdings and farmsteads Agrico (Stavropol), Agroco (Belgorod), Alpcot, AkBars (Tatarstan), CNH Capital, ASB (Stavropol), BaltAgroKorm (Kaliningrad), Valinor Management, GrainRus (Voronezh), Doronichi (Kirov), Dominant, EkoNiva, KazExportAstyk (Kazakhstan), Krasnodarzernoprodukt,KTG Agrar, Molochniy Product (Ryazan), Plodorodie, Russkiy Dom (Kursk), Agrocomplex Mansurovo (Kursk), Razgulay, Razdolie (Volgograd), RusAero-market (Krasnodar), Rusagro-Invest, Trio XXI (Lipetsk) Yug Rusi, and other companies»;

The representatives of domestic and international trading houses and food processing companies Afegra Eastern Europe, Barry Callebaut NL Russia, Vitol Services B.V., Mondelēz International, Bunge CIS, Glencore, Eris Flour Mills,Louis Dreyfus Vostok, Michurinsk Milling Company, United Grains Company, Mana Food Processing, United Grains Company», Oskolskaya Muka Ltd.,Südzucker AG Mannheim/Ochsenfurt, VAIT Kuban and others;

The representatives of agricultural input and services suppliers Advag, Bayer Crop Science, BASF, Dupont Schience and Technology, Eurotechnika MPS, Klever and others;

The representatives of investment, banking and major conglomerates community Alfa Bank, AVG Capital Partners, BASEL, Ed Capital, VTB Capital.

Major Conference topics:

  • The situation and outlook for main domestic and international agricultural commodities markets
  • The government regulation of the Russian agriculture: Round Table of the leaders of major agribusiness associations of Russia. Dmitry Yuriev, deputy minister of agriculture, to tae part in the Round Table.
  • Agricultural investments in Russian and Black Sea Region: problems, risks, opportunities.
  • Russian agricultural land markets: how to make them function.
  • Conventional, minimum and no till: world experience and implications for Russia and Black Sea region countries. Round table discussion of the leading world and domestic experts.
  • New tools and mechanism of ag production and price mitigation risks.

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Materials of the previous conferences 2012, 2011, 2010 see:
• Photo reports 2012, 2011, 2010
• Event activities 2012, 2011, 2010
• Participants 2012, 2011, 2010
• Post-releases 2012, 2011 (*.doc)