| Day first, December 2nd 2008. Financial crisis and its impact on fruit & vegetable business. Prospects of trade and markets
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| 09:00-11:30 |
Registration of the conference participants |
| 12:00-12:20 |
Conference opening
Welcoming words of the organizers and the Ministry of Agricultural Policy of Ukraine
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| 12:20-13:00 |
Main trends of fruit and vegetable market of Ukraine in season 2008/09. WTO and its impact on domestic fruit and vegetable business. Functioning of main segments of fruit and vegetable business in the conditions of financial crisis
Tatyana Getman, Chief Editor, "Fruit-Inform"
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| 13:00-13:25 |
Impact of world financial crisis on the investment attractiveness o fruit and vegetable market of Ukraine
Svetlana Sinkovskaya, head of Information Division of APK-Inform, Ukraine
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| 13:25-13:55 |
Situation and perspectives of the development of fresh horticultural products trade in the context of Ukraine's entrance to WTO
Roman Fedishyn, General Director, LLC "Shuvar" (4.6% of fruit & vegetable market of Ukraine)
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| 13:55-14:45 |
Lunch |
| 14:45-15:10 |
Organic vegetables and fruits of Ukraine have been already a reality. New market niches for greenhouse farms and other producers
Yevgeniy Milovanov, the President of Organic Movement Federation of Ukraine
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| 15:10-16:30 |
Trends of Ukrainian fruit and vegetable business development in the conditions of financial crisis at the example of Kherson region. Exports potential. Logistics. Storing. Processing
Svetlana Gorbenko, head of Agrarian development Department of Kherson regional state administration, Ukraine
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| 16:30-16:45 |
Fruit and vegetable brand in the conditions of WTO
Igor Chertilin, Director of strategic development of the company "Tortilla", Ukraine
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| 16:45-17:00 |
Coffee break |
| 17:00-17:30 |
Prospects of organic production in Ukraine and technical aspects of fruit and berry crop production with minimal use of chemical protection
Oleg Bosiy, representative of Vinnickiy fruit project, Ukraine
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| 17:30-18:00 |
Potato of Ukraine and Russia: situation, perspectives, opportunities (based on the first fundamental survey)
Yuliya Trauckaya, market expert of IA APK-inform
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| 18:00-18:10 |
Conclusions of the first day of the conference
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| Day second, December 3rd 2008. Technologies and marketing in fruit & vegetable business |
| 10:00-10:30 |
European fruit and vegetable market. Market development in the period of world economic crisis
Natalya Bammatova, Eurofresh Distribution, Spain
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| 10:30-11:00 |
Technological novelties for the greenhouse and field production business by Netafim
Sharon Morag, the Chief of the representative office of "Netafim" company in Ukraine, Israel-Ukraine
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| 11:00-11:30 |
Intensive technologies for fruit and berry crop material growing in Ukraine. Specificity of Ukrainian planting material trade in Europe
Sichkar Anatoliy Olegovich, senior agronomist of "Crimean fruit company", Ukraine
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| 11:30-11:45 |
Coffee break |
| 11:45-12:15 |
Main features of fruit and vegetable production in Poland. Technologies, prospective varieties of vegetables and fruits
Tadeusz Kusibab, director of GOSPODARSTWO OGRODNICZE, Poland
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| 12:15-12:40 |
Integration of the protection system for vegetable, fruit and berry plantations
Igor Chechetko, coordinator of certification centre on GLOBALGSP standard, Dukat, Ukraine
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| 12:40-13:00 |
Conception of drip irrigation on the open-soil from Netafim
Andrey Kostuyk, senior agronomist of Netafim, Ukraine
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| 13:00-13:40 |
Lunch |
| 13:40-15:40 |
International forum "Technologies of cooling and long-term storage and post harvest handling of fruits and vegetables"
Forum sponsor - Sholler Arka Systems
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| 13:40-14:10 |
Vegetable storing according to foreign technologies. Successful storing as deposit for successful fruit and vegetable business
Ingolf Mayer, Eastern Europe director, Plattenhardt + Wirth GmbH, Germany
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| 14:10-14:30 |
Novelties of the technologies of the quality maintenance for vegetables and fruits
Gudkovski V.A., member of the Russian Academy of Agrarian Sciences, director of Russian Horticulture named after Michurin I.V., Fito-mag company, Russia
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| 14:30-14:50 |
Analysis of vegetable business companies' provision with warehouses
Eugene Gladkov, "Infrost", Russia
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| 14:50-15:10 |
Overview of the modern technologies of fruit & vegetable storage and the suppliers of the specialized equipment
Pawel Baranski, Chlodnie KA Baranski, Poland
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| 15:10-15:40 |
Modern package for storing and distribution of fruits and vegetables
Kalenuk Roman, the Chief of the representative office of Sholler Arka System, Ukraine
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| 15:40-16:00 |
Coffee break
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| 16:00-18:30 |
International trade forum and wholesale-retail center*. Business negotiations
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| 19:00-21:30 |
Gala dinner for conference participants and exhibitors
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* Participation in the wholesale-retail center is free of charge for the first five wholesale and retail companies which have registered and paid the participation fee. Each next company will have to additionally pay EUR 100 (UAH 750). The suppliers do not have to pay for the participation in the wholesale-retail center if they have paid the conference participation fee. The meeting schedule will be composed during the conference.
