XXI Annual International Conference "Black Sea Grain and Oilseeds", September 10, 2015, Moscow, Russia

The Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation With a support of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation

On September 10, 2015

under the auspices of:

Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation

took place XXI Annual International Conference "Black Sea Grain and Oilseeds 2015/16”

in the hotel “Azimut Moscow Olympic”.

The event was visited by more than 250 representatives from 19 countries including Russia, Bulgaria, USA, UK, France, Switzerland, Turkey, Egypt, UAE, India, Iran, Malaysia, Singapore, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and other countries.

Uralkali traditionally has become the Official Sponsor and Kuban Vino has become the official wine partner of the event.

In the event’s frameworks were discussed: the government regulation of the grain market, problems of legislative provision, results of last season and development’s trends in the new season in the market of grain and oilseeds, Quality of grain in the season 2015/16 and other themes.

Presentations of the Conference speakers are available at the Personal web-office.

Session 1. “The macroeconomic situation, the government regulation of the grain market, the situation and outlook for the development of the world markets of grain and oilseeds” was started with moderator’s questions(The moderator was Voronina Anfisa, Deputy chief editor of the magazine "RBC") to Alexey Sirotkin (Director of the Department of Agrifood Market Regulation, food processing industry in the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation) about the problems of state regulation of grain market and about the plans of the Ministry of Agriculture for the season.

Oleg Zasov (Director of the Department of macroeconomic policies and cluster analysis, Vnesheconombank) made a presentation about macroeconomic situation. Arkadiy Zlochevskiy, the president of Russian Grain Union, express his opinion about coming interventions.

The next moderator of first session was Dmitry Rylko, General Director, IKAR. The second part was started with “ World Grain Markets in Search of Demand – China, US Rail and the importance of Currency” and the main appearance of the president of American analytic company “AgResource” – Dan Basse. It generated considerable public excitement like every year. The next Speaker was Andree Defois, President, Tallage-Strategy Grains and she represented the last trends of grain market in France.

As the moderator of second session traditionally was Alexander Korbut, Vice-President of Russian Grain Union. Session 2 was devoted to the Black Sea grain market in the coming season.

At first forecasts, opinion and recommendation expressed the General Director of IKAR, Dmitriy Rylko.

The speaker represented the current vision of the balance of wheat, barley , corn, grain, state of export, dynamics of prices and other. After Dmitriy, The General Director of ProZerno, the recognized analyst Vladimir Petrichenko represented his point of view to the development of market situation.

The session continued with the appearance of Irina Sarycheva, Managing director for the agricultural projects, SGS Vostok Limited.

The final presentations of analysts were from partner-countries- Kazakhstan and Ukraine. Victor Aslanov, Director of the Research Office of Grains and Oilseeds, elucidated the situation in the grain market of Kazakhstan and his colleague Sergei Feofilov, General Director of UkrAgroConsult, analyzed the main tendencies in the Ukrainian grain market.

As a result of previous sessions was Panel discussion with the participation of experts in the sector of development of grain and oilseed markets and there participated: Dmitriy Rylko, Vladimir Petrichenko, Arkadiy Zlochevskiy and Oleg Rogachev, First Deputy General Director of Rusagrotrans.

The XXI International Conference “Black Sea Grain and Oilseeds 2015/16” finished by the buffet-dinner, where splendid palette of wines and champagnes of official wine partner “Kuban-Vino” was presented.

The General informational partner of the conference was Interfax, the Official informational partner – Zerno On-Line, informational sponsor – portal «Agro – 2b». In the mass media the conference was covered by such news agencies as Bloomberg, RBC-daily, as well as by the MIA Russia Today, World Grain, etc.