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V International Scientific & Practical Conference "Berries & Processing: Technologies & Innovations"

      PROGRAM
                          5th International Scientific & Practical Conference
               "Berry Growing & Processing: Technologies & Innovations"

Date: December 9-10, 2021.
Venue: Hotel - restaurant complex "Verkhovyna" located in the village Petropavlivska     Borshchahivka, street Petropavlivska, 24, Kyiv region, Ukraine.

Hall №1
"Berry Growing & Processing: Technologies & Innovations"
"Current technologies in berry growing - a guarantee of a successful berry business."

08:00 – 09:00    

Participants` registration
The start of the exhibition presentation of equipment, technologies, materials, and products for the horticultural and processing industries.
Coffee break.

09:00 – 17:00    

An exhibition-presentation of beverages and other processed products from fruits and berries.

Special table place for subscribing to the magazines of the media group "Technologies and Innovations": "Horticulture and Viticulture & Nut Wood", "Horticulture and Viticulture & Drinks. Technologies and Innovations ", "Berry Field", "Beer. Technologies & Innovations" will be introduced during all conference day. Super proposition for conference participants: 10% off for a full set of magazines.

09:00 – 09:30    

The start of the conference (hall №1).
Welcoming speeches from the organizers and partners:
•    Kateryna Koneva, Nadiya Yashchuk - founders of the media group "Technologies and Innovations."
•    Ihor VISHTAK, Director of the Department of Agrarian Development;
•    Reinaud NAUTEN, Counselor for Agriculture of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ukraine
•    Oleg NAUMENKO, owner of farm "Jagidky", and our conference partner in  business tour
•    Eugen HARLAN, owner of the enterprise "Nikdaria" and our conference partner in business tour
•    Iryna KUKHTINA, President of the Berry Association of Ukraine, Main Industry Partner of the conference.   
 

"The economy of berry growing." – Yuriy PASICHNYK, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Institute of Agrarian Economics of NAAS

"Pests and Diseases of berry crops: world experience from Bayer." - Igor TARUSKIN, a marketing specialist in preparations for specific crop protection of the company Bayer-Ukraine, General Partner of the Conference on Plant Protection.

10:05 – 10:35   

A roundtable on the theme "Berry Brands of Ukraine and Intellectual Property" "
Moderator - Veronika BEREZANSKA, Head of Advertising and Public Relations IP and Law firm "Pakharenko and Partners" General Legal Partner of the conference.
Participants: owners and managers of horticultural farms, government officials, and scientists.
 

10:35 – 13:30
SECTION 2. "Current technologies in berry growing - a guarantee of a successful berry business."
Moderator - Kateryna Koneva - founder of the media group "Technologies and Innovations."

"Berry world: from the point of view of berry growers." - Frederica VOGEL, founder of the company Rosetta Agro - the Main Technological Partner of the conference; Husseifa Amarovych, a specialist in quality issues of the company Rosetta Agro (Netherlands).

"Useful biological organisms in the system of growing berry crops (protection, pollination, plant stimulation)" - Olena BOLTOVSKA, project manager of the company Rosana Biological Solutions.       

"Professionalism and experience in the introduction of automatic irrigation systems." - Vadym BOYKO, director of the company ProfPoliv.

"Berry novelties. New varieties of highbush blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries." - Igor PASCHUK, representative of the company In-Vitro Kusibab, the largest in-vitro laboratory in Europe (Poland)

"Innovative solutions in the technology of growing berries from the company BTU-CENTER." - Volodymyr SILENKO, agronomist of the company BTU-CENTER (Ukraine)

"Belarusian experience: remontant varieties of garden strawberries on tables in tunnels as an example from the farm " Sonyushko." - Iryna PAVLOVA, agronomist, Oleksiy MINENKO, the owner of the farm "Sonyushko" (Belarus)

"New trends in berry sorting." - Adriana DUNDA, sales manager of the company UNITEC (Italy), and Main Technology Partner of the Conference.

"Basic principles of planting and care for the highbush blueberry plantation. Critical moments during planting highbush blueberry field." - Oleg BAZYUK, director of the in-vitro nursery "Dolyna Agro" (Ukraine)

"The use of biological products and biostimulants for making easy abiotic stress in berry production." - Oleksandr Bykivskyi, consultant on horticulture and berry growing at Agritema

13:10 – 14:30   

LUNCH
14:30 – 18:15   

SECTION 2. "Current technologies in berry growing - a guarantee of a successful berry business."
Moderator - Nadiya Yashchuk - director of the media group "Technologies and Innovations."

"The evolution of the range - the experience in growing promising varieties of berry crops of domestic and foreign selection in Ukraine." - Oleksandr YARESHCHENKO, Deputy Director in research and crop breeder of the Institute of Horticulture NAAS.

"Preparations of the company Rodonit in the management system for the regulation harvest in orchard and berry - field." - Oleg DUBYNA, director in the development sector of the company RODONIT.

"How to increase capabilities due to optical sorting from Elifab." - Natalia ZELENSKA, Business Development Manager, the company Tolsma Technik

"Growing garden strawberries in the open ground: from the experience of the company SAV AGRO PARTNER." - Andriy SHVYNDYUK, Director of the company SAV AGRO PARTNER

"Modern varieties of raspberries for industrial cultivation in Ukraine". - Taras MASLOVATY, representative of FruTech.

"Nutrition of highbush blueberry - the basics and the most controversial moments." - Artur SIZHUK, agronomist of the company Biochim Agro.

"Another experience in the garden strawberries production for the season 2021 including the main problems and their solutions." - Iryna Barzo, participant of the project BestAgro project, co-founder of the initiative "Berry Side of Life."

"Italian technologies for storing fresh berries up to 3-4 months without loss of quality." - Eugen SHOLTUYAN, representative of the sales department of the company Fruit Control Equipments (Italy)

"Successful experience of growing raspberries." - Vitaly VASYLIEV, director of Dyvo Yagoda LLC

"New types of tunnels for growing berry crops." - Roman VOROZHBIT, representative of the company Haygrove (Poland)

"How innovative IQF technology can reduce your expenses and make your business in berry processing more cost-effective." - Anna DIK, Territorial Sales Manager for Eastern Europe from the company OctoFrost Group.

"Quality nutrition of berry crops from Timac Agro". - Maria PANAS, product manager of Timac Agro Ukraine.

"Experience of growing highbush blueberries in organic production." Bohdan BODNAR, Director of the company "Organic Sad"

"Freezing of raspberries in the Unidex fluidization tunnel" - Natalia PAZDZIOR-MENDALKA, representative of the company UNIDEX

"Global G.A.P. for Ukrainian farmers: all pros and cons. Practical cases for implementation" Igor CHECHITKO, specialist of the company Global G.A.P

18:15 – 19:00    
The final speeches from the organizers - the founders of the media group "Technologies and Innovations", Kateryna KONEVA, and Nadiya YASHCHUK.
A lottery draws from the companies - partners.
Photoshoot near the brand wall.

19:00 – 22:00    
Festive buffet. Tasting of beverages based on fruits and berries - juices, ciders, liqueurs, distillates.
Entertainment program with a performance of a musical group Miksband - the winner of the national music competitions as well as the performance of the Transcarpathian ensemble "BIROK" with fire show.
Dress code for conference participants: embroidered shirts.  
                                            

2-nd DAY December 10, 2021
Business Tour to the leading berry and processing enterprises of the region

08:00 – Departure participants from the hotel "Verkhovyna" located in the village Petropavlivska Borshchahivka.
09:30 – 11:25 – Visit to the "Nikdaria" company.
Coffee break.
•    Speech by a representative of the UNITEC company: presentation of sorting equipment.
12:30 - 15:00 – Visit to the SVC "Jagidky" (TM Big BLUE) company
Presentation of current technological solutions for berry- field from the head of the company Oleg NAUMENKO;
•    Master class on pruning highbush blueberry from agronomist-expert Igor LUTSKO;
•    Agronomic recommendations from expert Anna LUTSKO;
•    Presentation of the fertigation system with the accumulative pool from the company "ProfPolyv"
15:00 – 16:30 – Lunch
17:00 – come back to the hotel "Verkhovyna.

Hall №2
              Congress on the theme: "Freezing Technology & Cold Logistics for Berries."

"Processing and freezing. Creating value-added product through processing berries: different businesses - different opportunities."

Moderator - Bohdana TROFYMYUK, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the media group "Technologies and Innovations."

Congress participants - directors and owners of the cooling and freezing complexes, experts, exporters, representatives of logistics companies, companies that represent technologies, equipment for freezing, processing of other companies, and berry growers who have their freezing equipment or are going to buy.

SECTION 1. Berry Freezing & Cold Logistics. Berry Processing.

"Export opportunities for producers of frozen berries to European Union." - Iryna KUKHTINA, President of the Association "Berry of Ukraine", the Main Sectoral Partner of the conference.

"Storage and cooling of berries. From the experience of Fructon. - Konstantin KUZMENKO, head of the company Fructon-VN

"Lyophilization and freezing as technologies of the future." - Olga ROMAN, representative of the PIGO company in Ukraine.

"Analysis of the haskap berry on the world market." The leading trends. And, haskap berry processing and the ways of cooperation with the Asian market." Andrzej KRUPYNSKIY, President of the Association of Haskap Berry of Poland, and founder of farm "KRUPYNSKIY."

"Details to look out for when choosing refrigeration equipment and mistakes which you must avoid." - Alexander SHEYKO, representative of the company "4 Stykhii".

 "The market of frozen berries in Ukraine. Change of vectors in 2021/22 and the results of the season 2021." - Taras BASHTANNYK, President of the Ukrainian Fruit and Vegetable Association

"Sublimation of berries and appropriated export strategy on the example of the company "Dykanski Berries" (TM Pan Fruit Ukraine.) Serhiy STETSENKO, co-founder of the company "Dykanski Berries"

"The main problems that arise during the freezing process." - Yulia TYMOSHENKO, project manager of Tiferet company

"Cooperation in the berry segment on creating a value-added product covers freezing, and export." - Vasyl MARTYUK, Director of the company Continental Farms Group

"Organization of a refrigerator fleet and investment vision in the building freezing storages ." - Ivan KOTYASH, founder of the company "Malyn Factory"

"Not the only freezing or other ways of processing berry products, the experience of Berry Trade." - Andriy HALYAS, Director of Berry Trade LLC

"Experience in berry wine production." - Igor BONDARCHUK, founder of Bondarchuk Winery