Russia will be as prominent at the SIMA as never before, says the organizing committee.
A biennial arrangement, the SIMA show orients mainly on professionals. The latest, of 2003, gathered 186,000 visitors from many countries. Close on two thirds of that vast number were making orders right during the show, according to organizers' statistics.
Corporate exhibitors from forty countries make up a half of the whole this year.
Russia is having a pavilion of its own, as never before at SIMA expositions. Industrial mammoths-the Rostselmash, the St. Petersburg Tractor Works, and the Tractor Works concern among them-will show their produce in an area of 1,000 square meters.
The exposition is having a Russia Day, March 1. Top officers of the federal Agriculture Ministry, major banks and industrial and commercial companies will address visitors to offer information about the contemporary Russian agricultural market, transnational projects, and prospects for overseas capital investment.
The SIMA 2005 is working into Thursday, March 3.
