DUSHANBE, May 11, 2009, Asia-Plus — Tajikistan has been invited to attend the World Grain Forum that will hosted by St. Petersburg on June 6-7 this year.
The event, organized on an initiative of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and supported by heads of state and government of ember nations of G-8, is dedicated to discuss future global production in the light of food security issues.
The forum will offer four conferences and two business forums. Representatives from 80 countries, including agriculture ministers, heads of international financial organizations, national and international agricultural associations, and analysts, will be invited.
Russian news agency RIA Novosti quoted Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Victor Zubkov as saying that participants in the forum will discuss establishing a common grain market, providing the population with food supplies amid the financial crisis, and protectionist measures.
“I think that the outcome of this discussion will set a good basis for drafting proposals for the forthcoming G8 summit,” Zubkov said.
The following issues are to be discussed at the forum: the reasons of food crisis, consequences, mitigation ways; macroeconomic factors of economic development and forecast of prices for grain and the foodstuffs; national programs on support of agrarian manufacture; national programs of internal demand stimulation; humanitarian programs and their role in world agro industrial system; world trade policy: new challenges of globalization, localization and regional trade; innovations and biotechnologies in grain manufacture; establishment and functioning mechanisms of the international grain reserve fund; and Infrastructural risks of world grain trade.
