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Evonik Industries and Russian company RusBiotech International have established the joint venture Russkie Biotechnologii for manufacturing L-lysine in Russia by means of a biotechnological process. Vassily Golubev, governor of the Rostov-on-Don region, and Vadim Varshavsky, a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, supported the formation of the joint venture. The purpose of this joint venture, in which Evonik holds a minority shareholding with an option to increase its share significantly, is to produce the feed amino acid L-lysine in Russia.

Astana. October 10. Interfax-Kazakhstan - This year Kazakhstan will reap 22-23 million tons of grain in net weight, the Minister of Agriculture Asylzhan Mamytbekov said. "The size of the grain harvest is forecast at 22-23 million tons in net weight. According to the regional akim's offices, the current harvest has already exceeded 24 million tons," Mamytbekov said, speaking in the parliament in Astana on Monday.

As of Oct. 6, 2011, 90 percent of the harvested area of cereals has been harvested in Kazakhstan milled at 24 million tons of grain in bunker weight with yields of 16.5 quintals per hectare, which is 7.7 tons per hectare more than 2010, the press service of Kazakhstan's Ministry of Agriculture reported on Friday

Russia harvested 90 mln tons of grain by the beginning of this month, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said. These figures are one and a half times higher than last year's indices. Russia is strengthening its positions on the world grain market, broadening the geography of supplies. Experts say that from July to September Russia exported about 10 mln tons of grain. Unprecedented figures in all post-Soviet history. Russian grain exporters who returned to the world market after nearly a one-year embargo can be satisfied. In July, when a grain export ban was lifted, Russia sold nearly 10 mln tons of grain abroad. And judging by statistics, export volumes are growing from month to month. These are record indices. Russia has never exported food products in such volumes over the past 20 years. Head of the analytical centre "Sovekon" Andrei Sizov said a few words about the reasons for success in this field. "Factor No.

The Kaliningradbummash enterprise, an asset of the Avtotor holding company, started building a compound including primary grain processing and storage facilities in the town of Gusev. The plant's annual design capacity is 130,000 metric tons of wheat.

Companies. Omsk. OREANDA-NEWS . October 04, 2011. Metal bunkers meant for storage of wheat on grain elevator of the plant for deep processing of grain crops and vegetable biomass started to arrive to the warehouses of Group of Companies Titan, CJSC. American company Global acted as the supplier, reported the press-centre of Titan.

Shymkent. September 21. Interfax-Kazakhstan - Japan's Toyota Tsusho Corporation may team up with Kazakhstan's Food Corporation to build a grain processing plant in the republic. "Food Corporation plans to build a plant for deep processing of grain. We are currently looking for investors for the project. The most likely partner is Japan's Toyota Tsusho Corporation, together with which we are doing research," the deputy chair of JSC National Management Holding "KazAgro", Kairat Aituganov, told Interfax-Kazakhstan.