16.07.2016

On 14–16 July 2016, the All-Russian Field Day after eight-year break took place in Barnaul.

The Association of European Businesses was represented by Ruslan Kokarev, AEB COO, Vladimir Druzhina, Chairman of the AEB Seed Committee, Head of Corn & Oil Crops East Europe, KWS, and Tatiana Belousovich, AEB Government Relations Manager for Crop Protection and Seeds. On 14 July 2016, the AEB took part in the meeting with the management of the State Commission for Selection Achievements’ Test and Protection, the Russian Agricultural Centre, academic institutions and seed growing and selection centers called "Current status and perspectives of development of seed growing in the Russian Federation" organised by the Plant Growing Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, chaired by the First Deputy Minister of Agriculture Dzhambulat Khatuov. On the same day the round table discussion “Variety Registration System and International Partnership” organised together by the AEB and the State Commission for Selection Achievements’ Test and Protection was held.

On 15 July, the AEB took part in the official opening ceremony of the exhibition. The AEB delegation visited exhibition booths of the State Commission for Selection Achievements’ Test and Protection and Russian Agricultural Centre as well as AEB members, including BASF, Bayer, CLAAS, DuPont Science & Technologies, John Deere, KWS, Syngenta and others.

(Upper photo) L–R: Vitaly Voloshchenko, Chairman of the State Commission for Selection Achievements’ Test and Protection; Tatiana Belousovich, AEB Government Relations Manager for Crop Protection and Seeds; Ruslan Kokarev, AEB COO; Vladimir Druzhina, Chairman of the AEB Seed Committee, Head of Corn & Oil Crops East Europe, KWS.

L–R: Dirk Seelig, Chairman of the AEB Agribusiness Committee, Director Sales/Deputy General Manager, Claas Vostok; Tatiana Belousovich, AEB Government Relations Manager for Crop Protection and Seeds; Ruslan Kokarev, AEB COO.