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"Horticulture and Viticulture. Technology and Innovation"

Conditions

Terms of participation in the conference:

For agricultural producers - the participation fee – 125 euro
(the price includes payment for participation in all events for 2 days, including a business tour)
Participation fee (1 day without a business tour) – 100 euro
For non-agricultural producers - the participation fee – 150 euro (the price includes payment
for participation for 2 days, including a business tour)
Participation fee (1 day without business tour) – 120 euro
With online speech partner Package price – 600 euro
Registration for participants and partners – please feel free to contact us:
Anna Pankratenkova (project coordinator), tel .: +38 097 75 92 583
Iryna Kalyuzhna, tel .: +38 096 458 7682
Larysa Tovkach, tel .: +38 097 96 89 516
Iryna Petronyuk, tel .: +38 096 49 16 692

Project manager: Nadiya Yashchuk, tel. +38 (068) 568-58-22, rnadia@ukr.net
Creative Director - Kateryna Koneva, Editor-in-Chief / Publisher of the project "Technologies
and Innovations", tel .: +38 067 238 18 51 kateryna.koneva@gmail.com

Please feel free to contact us if you need any further information!

Attention: for subscribers of our magazines ”Berry Field ”, ”Horticulture and Viticulture. T.I ”, ”Drinks. Technologies and Innovations ”, and ”Nut Wood” - special offer for participation in the conference -10% OFF.

Please note: Only with an available certificate of full vaccination, or a certificate of full recovery, from covid for the last six months, a negative test, or an express test made within 72 hours, let you attend the conference. Please take care of the certificates to download in advance in the state application Diya.
It should be noted, that the conference will be held in compliance with all sanitary norms and rules. Moreover, all participants will be provided with enough amounts of face masks and sanitizers. Exhibition-presentation of equipment, technologies, and materials will be held with keeping a certain setting distance between the stands. Conference halls will be systematically ventilated using the modern, powerful system conditioning. We highly advise participants to keep social distance, keep away from hugs and handshakes. We offer participating companies that will present products on the stands to install protective screens.
Please take seriously into account the current situation with spreading COVID-19 in Ukraine. The above-mentioned security measures, are aimed at keeping you safe. We recommend measuring your body temperature before leaving home and staying home in case of illness. You can contact the organizers at any time to replace the delegate.

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PROGRAM

All-Ukrainian, charitable, scientific, and practical conference

"Berry Growing and Processing in the Condition of Martial Law: We Learn How Not to Give Up!"

February 16-17, 2023, in the city of Rivne hotel-restaurant complex "Aivengo"

February 16, 2023

Hall 1

08:00 – 09:00

Participants` registration

The start of the exhibition presentation of equipment, technologies, materials, and products for the berry growing, horticultural, and processing industries.

Coffee break.

09:00 – 17:00

Exhibition-presentation of equipment, technologies, materials, and products for berry growing, horticulture, and the processing industry.

An exhibition of agricultural machinery, processing equipment, and tools (near the entrance).

A special place for subscribing to the journals of the media group "Technologies and Innovations": "Horticulture and Vegetable Growing. Technologies and Innovations/Nut Wood", "Berry Field", "Drinks & Beer. Technologies and Innovations".

Discount for conference participants: 10% off on a full set of journals.

09:00 – 09:30

The start of the conference and welcoming speeches from the organizers and partners:

- Kateryna Koneva, and Nadiya Yashchuk - founders of the media group "Technologies and Innovations" and conference organizers.

- Nadiya PEREKHODKO, Director of the Department of Agro-Industrial Development of the Rivne Regional State Administration;

- Tatyana SMIRNOVA, president of the Charitable Foundation "Strong and Free";

- Oleg VOROBYOV, founder of the company "Grass Avenue" - the main partner of the business tour during the conference.

"Prospects for the development of Ukrainian berry growing in 2023, in the conditions of martial law. Forecasts, plans, problems, prices, exports." – Taras BASHTANNYK, president of the Ukrainian Fruit and Vegetable Association. Online

Discussion panel: Berry growing under martial law: sales on the domestic market and for export.

Moderator – Ihor Nitskevych (Nikdaria).

Questions for discussion:

- product quality: post-harvest processing

- State support, grants, lending and other ways of supporting the agricultural sector

- certification and export

- certification

- which is more profitable: export of fresh berries or frozen?

- pricing policy

- logistics

- the impact of the cost of berries on income.

10:30 – 14:00

SECTION №1. "Berry growing: main trends and challenges during wartime. How to save and develop business in the condition of wartime." Speeches from practicing farmers and representatives of technological companies – Moderator - Kateryna KONEVA, founder/chief editor of the media group "Technologies and Innovations".

"Building world with the best highbush blueberries using unique plant materials and relying on customers` success - unchanging mission of the FALL CREEK company" - Zhanna Matvienko, representative of the FALL CREEK company in Ukraine, Marcin VERESCHUK, manager of agronomic support for producers. Speech in an online format.

"How to create a strong and successful berry cluster. Advantages and disadvantages of working in the berry cluster format. Aesthetics of production in the berry business based on the experience of the TM "Volyn Berries", Vitaliy ISHMURAT, director of the "Volyn Berries" company.

"Biofungicides, biostimulants, and anti-stressors. How to combat diseases and abiotic stresses during berry production." - Oleksandr BYKOVSKY, horticulture and berry growing consultant of the company "Agritema".

"Experience in growing and processing highbush blueberries. Kinds and technologies of berry processing - jams, pastillas, marmalades, wines, mulled wines, blueberry brandy." - Yulia HORBATYUK, co-founder of farm "Yagidna Polyana".

"Up-to-date biological solutions to protect berries from diseases and pests." - Ihor Lushpanov, technical expert of the Western region of the company Summit-Agro Ukraine

"Range of berry crops planting material for organic and conventional technologies. Review of the most promising and new varieties". - Serhii Zmiychuk, director of "FRUTEK".

"Copper-based protective preparations: innovation or yesterday`s news". - Oleg DUBINA, director of development of the company "RODONIT".

"Progress in the Polish selection of raspberry and blackberry" - Dr. Agnieszka Orzeł, Niwa Hodowla Roślin Jagodowych Sp. z o.o., Dr.Berry Sp.z o.o. Online speech

"What role is playing qualitative planting material and the duly proper variety selection while plantation of highbush blueberry fields" - Oleg BAZYUK, director of the Dolyna-Agro in vitro nursery.

"Products of the Biochim Agro company for berry growing, - CaTs® - calcium thiosulfate - a unique novelty for feeding fruit crops." - Artur SIZHUK, agronomist of company Biochim Agro

"Don`t panic – be organic: practical advice for an organic business from personal experience - from a seedling to a berry. Highbush blueberry season 2022 in Poland." - Pavel Vavryschuk, Polska company Borowka. Online speech.

14:00 – 15:00

LUNCH

Review of equipment and master class from the company Makita

Presentation of beverages and other products of berry-fruit processing from Ukrainian producers.

15:00 – 18:30

SECTION 2. "Berry growing during martial law: new challenges and ways to overcome them." – Moderator Kateryna KONEVA, founder/chief editor of the media group "Technologies and Innovations".

"Evolution of production processes in berry growing" - Iryna BARZO, co-founder of the initiative "Berry side of life"

"A comprehensive approach to highbush blueberry cultivation: high-quality planting material, a complex of agrochemical and phytopathological research, professional irrigation systems." - Olga POVARKOVA, manager of the company Farmer.ua

"Innovative solutions for berry growers. Plant protection or changes in the cultivation of soft fruits". - Dorota Łabanowska-Bury, Zielona Perspektywa, Poland ONLINE speech

"Drip irrigation technology in horticulture: how to get high yields while saving production resources." - Vladyslav RAZKEVICH, co-owner of the company Eucalyptus P.

"Cultivation, storage, and processing of organic cornelian cherry"- Serhiy OLSHANSKY, founder of TM FAMBERRY.

"Effective methods of increasing productivity in the orchards and berry fields" - Vyacheslav HRYSCHENKO, scientific consultant of VITERA Ukraine.

"Growing garden strawberries in the covered soil on the tables." - Hanna LUTSKO, - an international expert in berry

"Biological preparations in organic and integrated technologies for growing berry crops." - Volodymyr SILENKO, technical consultant of the company "BTU CENTER."

"Plant protection in berry growing. Important moments and not only" - Iryna KOBRYNETS, agronomist-consultant

"The experience in the growing organic raspberries from A to Z and the need for own freezing" - Dmytro BRYTSOV, chief agronomist of the company "Deddens Agro".

"Effective nutrition of berry crops" - Oleksandr Viktorovych Stupenko, Ph.D. agrarian sciences, head of the science department of the company "ECO ORGANIC"

Currants - worthy or not? Technology, varieties, market, problems, nuances of growing." - Oleksandr YARESHCHENKO, deputy director for scientific work, selectioner, Institute of Horticulture of the National Academy of Sciences.

15:00 – 18:00

Hall 3 (3rd floor)

All-Ukrainian congress on freezing and cold logistics of berries and vegetables.

Moderator - Anna PANKRATENKOVA, manager of the media group "Technologies and Innovations".

Discussion panel: "Freezing and other types of berry processing: experience of practitioners.

Export and work in the realities of wartime."

- Cooperation between berry producers and processors

- Sales of frozen berries

- Organic raspberries, freezing, and sales

- Price forecast for this year

- Accompanying documents to transport frozen products for export (Artem Tekofood)

- What was the export capacity of frozen berries in Europe, and what need to expect for this year?

"Freezing and processing business in today`s conditions: main challenges and ways to overcome them. Pricing policy. And how to keep production capacities during power outages". - Kostyantyn KUZMENKO, head of the company Fruktona-VN.

"Energy supply and energy efficiency during berry storage, and during planned and unplanned power outages" - Andriy Marushchak, Business development manager Van Dijk Technieks

"Frozen berry market. Forecasts, plans, problems, prices, exports." – Taras BASHTANNYK, president of the Ukrainian Fruit and Vegetable Association. Online format.

"Details that need to be paid attention to when choosing refrigeration equipment, and mistakes that need to be avoided" - Vitaly Salasenko, head of the technical department of "Insolar-Holod"

"Refrigerating equipment using the natural CO2 refrigerant for storing berries." -Anton RYABKO, director of the RMC company.

"Investment vision of the building of freezing warehouses and today`s berry processing". - Ivan KOTYASH, Owner of the company Malyn Factory

"Organization and service of a fleet of refrigerated trucks." - Oleh CHIKALYUK, co-owner of the group of companies Renamax.

"Recommendations as for selecting refrigeration equipment and answers to popular questions". - Oleksandr SHEYKO, representative of the company "4 Elements".

"Intensive cooling of fruit and berry products (air precooling, hydrocooling)". - Vladyslav PERMINOV, deputy director of MAS Systems.

18:15 – 18:40

Big Hall 1. Summing up the results of the conference. The final speeches from the founders of the media group "Technologies and Innovations": Kateryna KONYEVA and Nadia Yashchuk.

18:40 – 19:30

Charity auction of goods and services from Ukrainian and European companies, with the support of the Charitable Foundation "Strong and Free" Presenter - Tetyana SMIRNOVA, President of the Foundation.

The end of the conference day and photo session near the brand wall.

19:30 – 21:00

Stand-up buffet

Day 2

February 17, 2023

Business tour to the leading berry and processing enterprises of the Zhytomyr region

8.00 – a departure from the hotel "Aivengo"

11:00 – 5:00 – Visit the company "Grass Avenue":

1.Review the highbush blueberry plantation. The master class on pruning highbush blueberries

A presentation of highbush blueberry varieties from the Dutch nursery Fall Creek that are presented at the farm. Thus, the participants of the business tour will see in practice how highbush blueberry varieties from Fall Greek feel themselves in the climate of the Zhytomyr Oblast, including care peculiarities, etc.

Presentation of tools and equipment from the company Makita.

3. Visiting the cooling complex and the blueberry sorting and packing plant.

Presentation of equipment from the companies Elifab, "4 elements" and Mat Exakta.

2. Lunch from 14:00 to 15:00.

18:00 -19:00 – Return to the hotel "Aivengo" the route through the Rivne bus station.