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Dear journalists!

We are glad to invite you to visit the Russian agro-industrial exhibition “Golden Autumn-2003” and take part in the grand ceremony of opening of the exhibition, which will take place on October, 10 at 11:00 in the open area near pavilion №57 of the All-Russian exhibition center, and in covering the numerous events of the exhibition program.

Press-release

From October, 10 till October, 14 2003 in All-Russian exhibition center in Moscow the Russian agro-industrial exhibition “Golden Autumn” with international participants will take place. It is the biggest Russian exhibition on agricultural and food subject, the main forum of national AIC, the central annual event on the program of Russian agro-industrial week. The exhibition is held in accordance with the Order of the Government of the RF and is confined with the celebration of the Day of the worker of agricultural and processing industries.

The organizers of the exhibition are Ministry of agriculture of the Russian Federation, Moscow Government, Russian Academy of agricultural sciences, PC SC All-Russian exhibition center, CC PIC “Maxima” .
In 2002 the exhibition was opened by the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation M.M.Kasyanov, Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation – Minister of agriculture of the Russian Federation A.V.Gordeev and Vice-Mayor of Moscow V.P.Shantsev. High officials of administration of the Ministry of agriculture of Russia, heads of regional administration and presidents of republics of the Russian Federation, delegates of the State Duma and members of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, representatives of political and business circles attended the official opening ceremony.

Judging by the scale and importance of the problems raised at the exhibition “Golden Autumn” is the largest exhibition in Russia, at which the whole system of agricultural industry and goods circulation is presented – from the field to the counter. Last year the number of exhibits of the Russian exhibitors was 1 875, 1000 enterprises and organizations out of that number were represented in 48 collective expositions of Russian .

The leading enterprises and firms of various property forms from 67 regions of Russia and 22 foreign countries took part in “Golden Autumn 2002”: from Austria, Byelorussia, Hungary, Vietnam, Germany, Denmark, Israel, India, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, the USA, Ukraine, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Yugoslavia.

Positive dynamics of the development of contemporary Russian AIC in the recent years, growth of many important figures, including the index of investments into the agro-industrial and food sector, have led to a noticeable increase of exhibition area. In 2002 the total of exposition area was 43270 sq.m., which was 30% bigger more than in 2001. The increase in the territory of the foreign section has made up 100% as compared to 2001 and 200% in the number of foreign participants.

More than 120 000 businessmen were registered at the last exhibition. The info-consultative center under the patronage of Russian Ministry of Agriculture (MA) and Moscow Government served the main commercial department. Its chief task was to choose on the competitive basis a certain number of providers from different regions, whose major responsibility would be purchasing provisions, agricultural raw materials, machines and equipment for Moscow processing enterprises and trade organizations. The center informs that more than 400 contracts were singed directly at the exhibition, the total sum of which exceeded 300 million roubles.

The center will continue its work at the coming exhibition, that is going to be even greater and presented in a different way- the following specialized exhibitions will be opened at the 5th Russian Agro Industrial exhibition “Golden Autumn’2003”: Agro Industrial Complex of Russia, Agrotech (agricultural technology and equipment for the AIC), Progressive technologies in cattle-breeding, Agrochimexpo, Veterinary medicine and fodder

All the other sections, among which are “Plant cultivation”, “Finance and credit system of AIC”, “Investments in AIC”, “Scientific provision for AIC”, “Information provision for AIC” will be introduced in the general exposition. Such principle would allow to introduce the essence of the corresponding fields in a more complete and system-like way, as well as to reflect their latest achievements and to present the Russian Agro Industrial Complex as an integrated whole.

The exposition will be situated in pavilions №№ 57, 55, 33, 32, 26, 20, 58 of the All-Russian exhibition center and in the open area. The total exposition territory is over 45000 sq.m.

1800 enterprises from almost all regions of Russia will participate in the exhibition. Those include agricultural producers of all forms of property, food and processing enterprises, wholesale firms, science and research institutes, conversion enterprises. The range of foreign participants will be considerably widened. A peculiar feature of the exhibition in 2003 will be further development of business relations among enterprises and firms of the food complex of the capital and countryside producers. Moscow enterprises have had a considerable positive and exemplary experience of integration with the agricultural producers from the regions. That is why “Food market of Moscow” will become one of the main sections of the exhibition “Food complex of Russia”. The food provision of the capital is directly connected with the supplies from the regions of Russia, the contribution of which also determines the share of imported produce. Created agro-holdings with participation of enterprises of Moscow food complex brought to the capital 27% of meat, 50 % of vegetables and 31% of potatoes of the general volume of contributions from the regions of Russia.

In this section integration chains will be presented, which include production of agricultural raw materials, their delivery to Moscow, processing and selling the ready produce. Presented as a separate block there will be functioning wholesale food markets and distribution centers of the city, which form the optimal system of goods circulation in the major and minor wholesale.

As part of the exhibition there will be numerous contests and events of the business program held. The central event of the business program will be the scientific session “Scientific and technical progress in AIC of Russia – strategy of machinery and technological provision for production of agricultural produce for the period up to 2010”. There will also be conferences and seminars held, among which are: “Investments into AIC. Federal system of agricultural leasing”, “Cattle breeding of French breeds. An answer to Russian needs”, “Dairy industry of New Zealand”.

A special event of the [program will be the Days of regions, which will present their latest achievements in the sphere of production and administration technologies. There will be press-conferences of international delegations and other participants of the exhibition held as well as presentations, numerous business meetings, tastings, festivals of national cuisines, concerts, show-programs. There will be a fair functioning at the exhibition and in all administrative circuits of Moscow, where Moscovites and visitors of the capital will be able to buy fruit, vegetables, honey, seeds and shrubs at a moderate price.

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