The conference "Key issues of development and state support of industrial production of cultivated mushrooms in Russia" held on Thursday in the building of the Ministry of agriculture of Russia. It plan to participate 80 people: representatives of the state Duma, the Federation Council, heads and specialists of the mushroom production enterprises, foreign and domestic manufacturers of substrates and compost, mycelium, equipment, systems, fogging, and humidification for commercial mushroom production, periodicals.

"The Moscow region took the first place in the ranking of the subjects on the production of mushrooms in Russia," said Razin.

Earlier he said that in 2018 planned to implement investment projects – two farms for the cultivation of mushrooms. "Agro-Region" plans the construction of a complex for production of mushrooms with a capacity of 12.4 thousand tons, the volume of investment is 1.2 billion rubles. Also "agro-Region" intends to build a composting plant with a capacity of 37 thousand tons of compost per year, volume of investments - 1 billion rubles. The total number of jobs is about 800.