українська     русский     english The Second International Conference & Fair "Fruits and Vegetables of Ukraine 2005" December 5th-7th, 2005, Kiev, 1, Akademika Glushkova Str., The National Complex "Expo-center of Ukraine"
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Organizers:

	Ahroohlyad journal
	National Complex: Expo-center of Ukraine

Support:	Agricultural Marketing Project (AMP), Land O'Lakes, Inc./ USAID

General sponsor:

Agrimatco-Ukraine

Sponsors:

	Rusbana Engineering
	Shuvar Ltd.
	Franko-Terminal
	Olvita

Informational support:

We expect that 300-400 fruit & vegetable business professionals from 15-20 Leading fruit and vegetable countries will attend this event.

Target audience includes:

• Highly successful fruit and vegetable producers

• Fresh produce traders - wholesalers and retailers

• Leading processing enterprises (producers of juices, sauces, canned, dried & frozen fruit and vegetable products)

• Suppliers of agricultural inputs - seeds, agricultural chemicals, growth stimulants, etc.

• Manufacturers and suppliers of Post Harvest Handling (PHH) equipment - sorting, storage, cooling and freezing, drying, packing, etc.

• Suppliers of agricultural machinery - drip irrigation systems, precision planters, sprayers, vegetable harvesters, etc.)

• Other industry support groups - Transportation and logistics support companies, leading technical and market research agencies, banks, insurance and leasing companies

Working languages of the conference: Ukrainian, English, Russian

The conference participants will receive an informative package of handout materials including:

• A conference catalog with the contact information for all participants

• The reference book "Fruit and vegetable business of Ukraine 2005" with the most complete and up-to-date list of market players, production, processing & trade statistics, crop budgets, as well as a brief overview of the industry situation written by leading experts. The following types of the companies will be included in the book:
  - Highly successful vegetable, fruit and berry producers from all regions of Ukraine
  - Suppliers of seeds, seedlings, agricultural chemicals, drip irrigation systems, greenhouses, agricultural machinery and other equipment for the fruit and vegetable production
  - Processing companies: canneries, juice producers, drying, freezing and others processing fruits & vegetables
  - Suppliers of packing, cooling and storage equipment and related materials for fruits and vegetables
  - Fresh produce wholesalers & supermarket chains
  - Industry cooperatives and associations
  - Other companies involved in the fruit and vegetable business of Ukraine.

• Handbook "Modern fruit and vegetable packing"

• A manual: "Results of the Field days conducted by the AMP during the past two years"; there participants can find detailed descriptions of the technologies applied on the demo-sites, the list of varieties and hybrids, and also yield, production cost and sales price information of the different fruits and vegetables in six oblasts of Ukraine

• Video about the AMP activities, CD format

• Software for the AMP fruit and vegetable farm business model (FBM), CD format

• Two first issues of the periodical "Ahroohlyad - Vegetables and Fruits"

• Handout materials about production technologies, PHH, storing, processing and marketing of fruit and vegetable commodities

• Detailed reports of three fundamental market research studies of Ukraine's fruit & vegetable markets carried out by Agricultural Marketing Project:
  1. Situation in the retail trade of fruits & vegetables in Ukraine's supermarket chains
  2. Wholesale trade of fruits & vegetables of Ukraine
  3. Specifics of fruit & vegetables trade through farmers' markets

For more information, please, contact APK-Inform Marketing Department: tel/fax: +380 562 320795, e-mail promo@apk-inform.com; market@apk-inform.com or ads@apk-inform.com (ask for Svitlana Sinkovskaya)