An exhibition and fair dedicated to the Day of Agricultural and Processing Industry Workers will be held in Omsk.

The traditional fair dedicated to the Day of Agricultural and Processing Industry Workers will be held at the site near the regional Congress Hall.

November 29 will be the main holiday for all those who have connected their lives with agriculture. The event is timed to coincide with the Day of the Worker of Agriculture and Processing industry of the Omsk region.

The organizer of the fair is the regional Ministry of Agriculture and Food and the Agency for Development and Investment. The Siberian Agro-Industrial Exhibition is a specialized platform for business communication between farmers, demonstrating the achievements of the Omsk Region's agro-industrial complex and expanding mutually beneficial relations between regional enterprises.

Thanks to the efforts of farmers, the region is among the top three regions of the Siberian Federal District and among the twenty leading subjects of the Russian Federation in terms of agricultural products. They fully meet the needs of Omsk residents in meat, milk, eggs, grain, and potatoes. Grain cultivation, dairy and beef cattle breeding, pig breeding, and poultry farming are well-developed areas and a kind of business card of the industry.

According to the Territorial Body of the Federal State Statistics Service for the Omsk Region, agricultural producers, of whom there are about 337,000 according to the 2016 All-Russian Agricultural Census, create a twelfth of the gross value added and use 4 million hectares of agricultural land. The agricultural complex employs more than one hundred thousand people.

The main part of crop and livestock production (70%) is produced in agricultural enterprises and peasant (farm) farms, the rest is on private farmsteads, garden and suburban areas.

As of November 1, 2019 (according to operational data), the gross harvest of grain, the main agricultural crop (in the initial weight) it amounted to 3.2 million tons. In January-October of this year, 162.7 thousand tons of meat, 531.4 thousand tons of milk, 740.8 million eggs were produced.

As part of the celebration dedicated to the Day of the Agricultural and Processing Industry Worker, the best farmers, livestock breeders, and machine operators will be rewarded with passenger cars for their high achievements in agriculture. This year there will be 12 of them, the keys of which will be handed over by the head of the region Alexander Burkov.

The leaders of the harvesting campaign - successful farms and processors of agricultural products – will be awarded diplomas, certificates of honor and gifts, and milking machines will be presented to the most productive milk distributors. The celebrations will be held in the regional Congress Hall and Concert Hall. Vocal and dance groups will also perform on stage.

A fair of products of rural producers from the regions of the region will be held near the Congress Hall. An exhibition of 21 pieces of agricultural machinery and equipment will also be organized.

Everyone will be able to visit the exhibition of products of the agro-industrial complex, the exposition of scientific achievements, which will be held in the building of the Congress Hall.  The exhibition will showcase technologies for growing, harvesting and storing agricultural products, plant protection products, livestock projects, veterinary and zootechnical equipment, and tools. The stands will feature feed production and harvesting, services of leasing companies and agricultural insurance. A tasting of the food and processing industry is also organized.

Businessmen, in turn, will be able to expand the sales market and sign new profitable contracts.