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Conference “Where the Margin Is 2015” took place on 06 February 2014 in Moscow

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The 6-th International agricultural conference “Where" target=_blank>http://ikar.ru/wherethemarginis">Where the Margin Is” took place on 06 February 2014 in Moscow in the hotel Radisson Slavyanskaya. The conference “Where the Margin is” became a traditional event for agricultural producers and representatives of different spheres of agribusiness.

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The organizers would like to express heartfelt gratitude to all sponsors, partners and participants of the conference. Among them the gold sponsor of the conference: AGCO" target=_blank>http://www.agcocorp.com/">AGCO, the silver sponsor: Farmers" target=_blank>http://www.farmersedge.ca/">Farmers Edge, and the other sponsors: NUFARM" target=_blank>http://www.nufarm.com/">NUFARM GmbH&Ko.KG, SwissRe" target=_blank>http://www.swissre.com/cropcover">SwissRe and Yilmaz" target=_blank>http://en.yilmazdamper.com/">Yilmaz. The conference was held in the partnership with the Union" target=_blank>http://www.assagros.ru/">Union of Russian Agribusiness Associations, the" target=_blank>http://www.rossahar.ru/">the Russian Sugar Union and the " target=_blank>http://mcx.ru/">Ministry of agriculture of the Russian Federation.

The conference was attended by representatives of state ministries and departments (Ministry of agriculture of Russia, Ministry of economic development of the Russian Federation, Federal tariff service), Government Executive Office and the State Duma of the Russian Federation, executives of industry associations in agribusiness, agricultural attaché of the world leading countries: USA, Germany and Netherlands, Russian State Agrarian University – Tymiryazev’s Moscow Agricultural Academy.

The conference was attended by more than 300 participants: top executives of agroholdings and independent farms, ag input dealers and distributors, traders, processors, financiers, insurers, commercial banks, representatives of investment funds, scientific organizations, mass media and government organizations.

“The land bank” of the Conference-2015 exceeded 5.2 million hectares of arable land.

The conference was supported by the leading business and agribusiness media: Thomson-Reuters" target=_blank>http://www.thomsonreuters.com">Thomson-Reuters, Interfax" target=_blank>http://www.interfax.com">Interfax, Prime" target=_blank>http://www.1prime.biz">Prime, Grain-on-Line" target=_blank>http://www.zol.ru">Grain-on-Line, Magazine" target=_blank>http://www.nsh.ru">Magazine «New Agriculture», DairyNews" target=_blank>http://www.dairynews.ru">DairyNews and others" target=_blank>http://ikar.ru/wherethemarginis/partners/">others.

The Conference “Where the margin is” was spotlighted by:

• Agencies: Thomson" target=_blank>http://reuters.com/">Thomson Reuters, Interfax" target=_blank>http://www.interfax.ru/">Interfax (Finmarket), Prime" target=_blank>http://www.1prime.biz/">Prime (RIA), Bloomberg" target=_blank>http://www.bloomberg.com/">Bloomberg, RBC" target=_blank>http://www.rbc.ru/">RBC, TASS" target=_blank>http://en.itar-tass.com/">TASS;
• Magazines: Magazine" target=_blank>http://www.nsh.ru/">Magazine «New Agriculture», Sugar beet, Bakeries, Sugar, The Russia Corporate World, Agrarian Plus, Insurance and lending, agricultural theme, the Agricultural sector, Tractors and agricultural machinery, Agricultural News, Perfect technology, Fodder, Zenovich, agricultural expert, the Russian Chernozem, Agroprofi Relevant agrosystems, Farm Animals, international agricultural journal, Agroinvest;
• Web resources: ZOL" target=_blank>http://www.zol.ru/">ZOL, DairyNews" target=_blank>http://www.dairynews.ru/">DairyNews, ISCO-I.RU" target=_blank>http://www.isco-i.ru/">ISCO-I.RU, Zerno.avs.ru" target=_blank>http://zerno.avs.ru/">Zerno.avs.ru, Agroyug.ru, Piginfo.ru, Helpinver.ru, Finefinance.ru, Agro2b.ru, Soyanews.info, Pole-news.ru, Sambros.ru, Piginfo.ru, Korovainfo.ru, Chickeninfo.ru, Rosfarming.ru, Agrosbornik.ru, Agroinfo.com, All.biz, Itm.spb.ru, Ukragroconsult.com, Icenter.ru, Agriacta.com, breadportal.ru, coteco.ru, drinkportal.ru, fatportal.ru, fruitportal.ru, furazh.ru, meatportal.ru, milkportal.ru, rybinform.ru, sugarportal.ru, sweetsportal.ru, tobaccoportal.ru, volgau.com, russelhoz.ru, rosfood.info, agritimes.ru;
• Newspapers: Vedomosti, Kommersant, Mergermarket Financial Times;
• Vesti-24, RBC-24, Agro TV;
• Industry associations and exhibitions: the Altai fair, VIV Russia, AgriTek Uzbekistan'2015, AgriTekAstana, Rational production, Tsaritsyn fair, Biomass: fuel and energy,IFFF Moscow; Potato Union, ASHOD, National biofuel association, RSSM, Association of producers and suppliers of foodstuff "Rusprodsoyuz";
• And other agricultural and business media

Moderators of the Conference:

• Maxim Protasov, Chairman, Rusprodsoyuz
• Patrick Ghidirim, Managing Director, «NCH Capital Russia»
• Sergey Korolev, President, National Vegetable growers Union
• Andrey Bodin, Chairman, Russian Sugar Union
• Dmitry Rylko, general director, IKAR

The Conference consisted of four working sessions and round tables.

The Russian Federation Deputy Minister of Agriculture - Andrey V. Volkov has opened the Conference, noting that over the five years it has become an effective platform for constructive exchange of views.

The Russian Federation Deputy Minister of Agriculture took part in the Round table on the issues of state regulation and support of national agriculture and gave detailed answers to acute questions of the audience.

Session 1. Situation and prospects of development of the world commodity markets of crop production.

Moderator - Andrey Bodin, Chairman, Russian Sugar Union

• Dmitry Yuriev, deputy Minister of Agriculture, Russian Federation, told in details about changes in Agriculture Development Program 2013-2020 and concerned a number of sensitive issues of its realization.
• Prof. William Wilson, professor, NDSU State University (Fargo, USA).
• Dmitry Rylko, general director, IKAR.

Session 2. Big Data: new technological revolution in a global agriculture and opportunities for Russia. Moderator: Patrick Ghidirim, Managing Director, NCH Capital Russia

• Howard Dahl, President, Amity Technology LLC.
• Wade Barnes, President, Farmers Edge.
• Pavel Demidov, head of the group of companies Dominant.

Session 3. Moderator: Sergey Korolev, President, National Vegetable growers Union.

• Pavel Grudinin, General Director, Sovhoz imeni Lenina.
• Alexander Nezhenets, General Director, Agroholding Progress (Kuban).
• Oleg Kananykhin, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Russkij Dom (Kursk).
• Oleg Opanasuk, General Director, TH Razdolie (Volgograd).
• Anatoly Nikitasenko, Executive, association «Zauralie» (Kurgan).
• Oleg Zasov, Head of Department, Vnesheconombank.
• Alexey Zhdanov, Deputy Chairman, Russian Agricultural Bank.

Session 4. Mini-sessions. Actual issues on agricultural sector regulation: land transactions, taxation, insurance. Moderator: Andrey Bodin, Chairman, Russian Sugar Union

Among participants of discussion:

• Olga Romanova, Advocate, managing partner, «Law Group «Ratum».
• Alexander Schragin, Vice-President of the "United Association of insurers of the agro - industrial complex of the National Union of agricultural insurers".
• Natalia Datskovskaya, Deputy Director of the Department of Finance and budget policy of the Ministry of agriculture of the Russian Federation

Session 5. Round table of industry leaders. Moderator: Maxim Protasov, Chairman, Rusprodsoyuz

• Andrey Bodin, Chairman, Russian Sugar Union.
• Evgenia Uvarkina, Chairman, TRIO Group of Companies, Chairman, Commission on the Agricultural Sector and Development of Rural Areas of the Civic Chamber.
• Arkadiy Zlochevskiy, President, Russian Grain Union.
• Yuri Kovalev, General Director, National Pig Growers Union.
• Denis Cherkesov, general director, National Beef Cattle Union.
• Sergey Korolev, President, National Vegetable growers Union.

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