About conference

The following themes will dominate during he conference: production forecasts, consumption and exports of grains during the second half of the season-2009/10, predictive grain balances, situation on the market of grains and the export potential, prospective scenarios of grain markets taking into account effectiveness of governmental regulation measures, the grain pool of the countries of the Black Sea region: advantages and risks, market of grains: searching for decreasing of infrastructural limitations, market of grain by-products: condition, tendencies and prospects of development, export potential: risks, barriers, candidate markets.

Representatives of the governmental authorities of the Russian Federation, Ukraine, the Republic of Kazakhstan, top-management of leading trading companies, transport companies, surveyors, agricultural holdings, enterprises dealing with grain and oilseeds storing and processing, insurance companies and banks, and also competent experts will take part in the discussion.

The organizers will offer rather saturated session program and optimum conditions for business negotiations, meetings with partners, presentations of own companies to the participants of the conference.

According to the results of previous two conferences, "Grain of Russia" became traditional ground for communication of representatives of the grain business, at the same time, the significance of the event even strengthens due to the participation of representatives of various segments within borders of the concrete conference, which witnesses about the aspiration for mutual active dialogs and working out of common strategies.

Additional opportunities for participants:

• simultaneous translation

• discounts from the regisration fee for early registration and for every additional delegate from one company

• special discounts for members of Russian Grain Union and subscribers of APK-Inform

• assistance in hotel reservation

• on-line chats before the conference for organization of business-meetings

You can become acquainted with more detailed information concerning the preliminary program of the conference, registration and conditions for registration, sponsor and informational support of the conference at the web-sites www.grun.ru and www.apk-inform.com or tel: +7 495 6078285, +7 495 7894419 and tel/fax: +380 (562) 320-795.

Historical reference

Over 235 delegates from 20 countries of the world took part in the work of the conference "Grain of Russia-2008", including Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Egypt, Estonia, the USA, France, Switzerland and etc.

The target audience was presented by exporters/importers, agricultural producers, surveyors, transport and forwarding, investment companies, banks. Also, representatives of the Ministries of Agriculture of three states - Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan - participated in the conference, which provided the official meeting within bounds of the conference.

Russian Grain Union is All-Russian uncommercial association of leaders and participants of the grain market. The Union was founded on November 23, 1994, and to date, the association unites 523 organization of agricultural food complex. Agricultural producers, enterprises, dealing with operations of grain and by-products purchasing, storing and selling, leading agricultural holdings of the country, producers of technical equipment for agriculture and the agro industrial complex, stock exchanges, banks, insurance, leasing and investment companies, operating in the agro industrial sphere, unions, associations and other uncommercial organizations, uniting participants of adjacent markets, branch mass media, scientific institutions and nongovernmental analytical centers are members of Russian Grain Union.

Arkadiy Zlochevskiy is the president of Russian Grain Union.

Informational-analytical agency АPК-Inform is one of the leading mass media of agrarian subject-matter at the informational area of the CIS. During over ten-year period of working on the market, the company accumulated large-scale experience, which allows gradually widening own range of services, provided for clients of the agency. APK-Inform Agency provides subscription of over 10 issues, the agency owns two popular web-sites of agrarian themes.

Viktor Kanunnikov is the director of APK-Inform Agency.