The exhibition "the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo", also known as the Houston Rodeo is one of the key world events among professionals. Every year at the site of the Rodeo is going over two million people, as ordinary visitors, and representatives from the agricultural community from different regions of the world that use the possibilities exhibitions for new contracts and the expansion of trade and investment opportunities.

This year, the Russian Association of regional agricultural producers (arsp) at the invitation of the Department of agriculture of the state of Texas and with the support of the Consulate General of Russia in Houston had the opportunity to participate in the activities of the international week of the Rodeo from 27 February to 6 March.

"The pavilion of the arsp will be the first in the history of this exhibition, the stand telling about the domestic agricultural producers. The participation programme of arsp in the exhibition is the presentation of informational materials about the Russian agricultural activities, original products of regional artisans and cultural features of the regions of Russia and their extensive trade fair and exhibition potential", — stated in the message of the Russian Association.

Arsp – is an Association aimed at support of agricultural producers of the regions of Russia, primarily small farms, and promotion of their products in domestic markets, in countries near and far abroad.