In the framework of the working trip to Saratov oblast the head of the Federal agricultural agencies Nikolai Fedorov took part in the opening ceremony of Balakovo oil extraction plant - one of the three largest in the country and the largest in the Volga region.

After reviewing the production, the head of Russia's agriculture Ministry said a number of obvious advantages of the new project: geographical location and developed transport infrastructure, modern multifunctional equipment, technologies that use waste as a "green fuel" for the production of process steam.

Then the Minister of agriculture of the Russian Federation Nikolai Fedorov, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on agrarian issues Nikolai Pankov and the Saratov region Governor Valery Radaev clicked on the run button continuous design processing capacity of sunflower 1,800 tons per day.

Having started a new production, Nikolai Fedorov took part in the ceremony, symbolizing the beginning of construction of the second stage crushing plant for deep processing of oil crops with a capacity of 3 tons per day. Annual power production facility soybean processing will be up to 520 thousand tons, production of soybean meal up to 390 thousand tons. The project will be implemented until 2018.