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VIII International Scientific and Practical Conference "Berry Growing and Processing: Technologies and Innovations"

December 12–13, 2024, Lviv, Hotel "George"

08:00 - 9:00

Participant registration at the conference "Berry Growing and Processing: Technologies and Innovations"

Coffee break.

09:00 – 17:00

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

To subscribe to our journals of the media group "Technologies and Innovations": "Horticulture and Vegetable Growing", "Nut Wood", and "Berry Field" is open and will be operating during all conference days.

Exhibition-presentation of products made from processed fruits, berries and nuts, soft drinks, and other beverages will be introduced in the hall.

09:00 – 09:15

Opening of the conference (large hall). Greetings from the organizers and partners – Kateryna KONEVA, and Nadiya YASHCHUK – founders of the media group “Technologies and Innovations”, conference organizers.

Welcoming speeches:

Yuriy BUCHKO, Deputy Head of the Lviv Regional Military Administration.

Roman VUYKIV, director of the Kamyanka-Buzka Food Products Plant, partner of the conference business tour.

Bohdan MALENEVYCH, manager of the agricultural farm “Prykarpattya Agro” (TM Boikivchanka).

Volodymyr PECHKO, head of the Public Union “UKRSADVINPROM”

SECTION №1. “Berry growing: mainstream trends and challenges during wartime. How to hold and develop business in wartime conditions.” Speeches delivered by practicing farmers and representatives of technology companies. Moderator – Kateryna KONEVA, co-founder of the media group “Technologies and Innovations” – the conference organizer.

09:15 – 09:45

"Experience growing Pshekhyba raspberries and other varieties undercover and on open ground. The need for mechanization. Preparation and selection of a place for growing raspberries and practical advice on protection and biostimulation". – Piotr FIGURA, owner of Gospodarstwo Rolne Figura (Poland).

09:45 – 10:00

“The new bio fungicide Taegro™ – berry protection without restrictions.” – Dmytro TYMOSHENKO, technical support manager for protection of special crops, grapes and berries, Syngenta company.

10:00 – 10:20

“Determining optimal systems and the proper selection for garden strawberry varieties. Is it worth growing garden strawberries in the open ground or a tunnel? How to harvest strawberries before frost? Growing in a substrate. Harvest monitoring.” – Iryna PAVLOVA, agronomist-consultant.

10:20 – 10:35

“ICL: innovations that are nearby.” – Volodymyr ZABALUEV, representative of ICL company.

10:35 – 11:00

"How to get 20 tons of blueberries per hectare and develop a berry business during a period of falling prices and a shortage of labor work. Investing in the berry business and return on investment. How to set up successful sales of berries in Europe, and what rule play packaging for sales." - Pawel WAVRYSCHUK, representative of Polska Borowka (Poland).

11:00 – 11:15

"How to improve the system of berry crop protection. Recommendations and experience from Summit-Agro Ukraine." - Andriy OSYKOVY, a leading specialist in horticulture at Summit-Agro Ukraine, head of the Central region.

11:15 – 11:35

"Current berry range for processing and fresh market.” – Serhiy ZMIYCHUK, General Director of FruTek company

11:35 – 11:50

“Nature at work: biological products for the berry protection and nutrition” – Yaroslava BUKHONSKA, a plant physiologist at the BTU Biotechnology Company.

11:50 – 12:05

“High harvest is the synergy of biological organisms.” – Olena BOLTOVSKA, a specialist in pollination and protection of fruit and vegetable crops, project manager at Rosana Biological Solutions company.

12:05 – 12:20

“Biological solutions in growing berries from world leaders in the production of biological products.” – Igor CHAYKA, representative of Agritema company.

12:20 – 13:00

Discussion panel: “Ukrainian berry growing 2024: new market realities and prospects for the next year.” Moderator – Volodymyr PECHKO, Head of the Public Union “UKRSADVINPROM”.

"Organization of the work process on a berry farm." – Natalia SHESTAK, HR manager of Blue Berry.

"Trends of the world market of fresh and frozen berries." – Iryna KUKHTINA, president of the Ukrainian Berries Association.

Andriy SHVYDNYUK, co-founder of the company "SAV AGRO PARTNER."

13:00 – 14:30

Break.

Lunch

SECTION 2 (continuation) “Berry growing during wartime: new challenges and ways to overcome them.” Moderator – Kateryna KONEVA, founder/editor-in-chief of the media group “Technologies and Innovations”.

14:30 – 14:45

"Export sales: Varieties, Global Gap Certification, Seasonal results, market analysis, quality requirements - for pesticides and physical quality, for batch size, logistics, sorting." - Yevgen Kharlan, member of the board of TD UA Growers.

14:45 – 15:00

“Grape varieties for long-term storage in fresh form and freezing. Methods of storing grapes.” – Olga YULINA, owner of the "Yulya` Vineyard" Farm.

15:00 – 15:20

“Safe market turnover of planting material.” – Ivanna MARCHENKO, plant variety specialist at the patent law firm “Pakharenko and Partners”, General Legal Partner of the conference.

15:20 – 15:50

“Selection of berry crops in Scotland and new varieties of highbush blueberries.” – Jamie Smee, business developer at the James Hutton Institute, Oleg BAZYUK, director of the Dolyna-Agro nursery.

15:50 – 16:10

"At the crossroads of wishes and possibilities. All about ways to grow strawberries in the soil." - Iryna KOBRYNETS, agronomist-consultant.

16:10 – 16:35

“To grow garden strawberries profitably, you need to respond to global trends.” – Jan ROBBEN, an agronomist at Flevo Berry B.V. (Netherlands).

16:35 – 17:00

"New varieties of raspberries and strawberries." - Katarzyna KRUL, representative of Niwa Hodowla Roślin Jagodowych Sp. z o.o. (Poland).

17:00 – 17:25

"Methods for increasing harvest and profitability of berry plantations, mechanization, innovations." - Leon SHRIJNWERKES, an owner and director of the Schrijnwerkers Plants B.V. nursery (Netherlands).

17:25 – 17:40

"Growing and prospects of niche berry crops in Ukraine. Fresh market sales and processing. Sea buckthorn. Hascap. Blackberry. Rosehip." - Oleksander YARESHCHENKO, Deputy Director for Scientific Work, Plant Breeder, Institute of Horticulture of the NAAS.

17:40 – 17:55

“EU and FAO grant support in the berry sector.” – Hanna ANTONYUK, Head of the FAO Office in Lviv, Manager of the EU project “Integrated, Competitive and Economically Rational Creation of Value Added Chains in Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.”

Hall № 2

IV Congress on Freezing, Processing, and Cold Logistics

Moderator – Anna PANKRATENKOVA, Manager of the media group "Technologies and Innovations".

14:30 – 16:00

Discussion panel: "Freezing and other types of processing for berries and vegetables: practitioners` experience An export. Work in the realities of wartime."

Moderator - Oleg YAKYMETS, a consultant on freezing berries and vegetables.

Questions for discussion:

Cooperation of berry producers with processors;

Recommendations for procurers who purchase part of the products from people.

Accompanying documents for the domestic market and export;

Sales of frozen products;

Organic berries and vegetables, their freezing and sales;

Analysis of prices in 2024 and forecast of prices for frozen products for 2025;

The volume of purchases of frozen berries in Europe in the 2024 season. Forecast for 2025. Logistics.

The discussion participants are owners and managers of freezing plants, leading specialists in the field of freezing.

16:00 – 16:15

“Why is CO2 the natural refrigerant of the future? Based on examples from enterprises in Ukraine.” – Anton RYABKO, Director of RMSI company

16:15 – 16:30

“Experience in aggregation and processing of berry products, entry into foreign markets.” – Andriy GALYAS, Director of Berry Trade company

16:30 – 16:45

"Current technological solutions in freezing and sublimation of fruit and berry products." - Igor KORNIENKO, technical director of the company "Coriel Group", Vladyslav PRYKHODKO, design engineer for the assembly of installations and equipment of the company "Coriel Group"

16:45 – 17:00

“Modular systems of industrial refrigeration equipment on CO2 and NH3”. – Ivan PUGACHOV, Technical Director of Green Group Ukraine LLC.

17:30 – 17:45

"Selection of equipment and premises, review and analysis of various technologies, types of freezing and cooling of berries and vegetables"

17:45 – 18:00

"Post-harvest cooling of berries and fruits is a guarantee of high quality."

18:40 – 19:40

Charity auction of goods and services of Ukrainian and European companies – for the 44th Arthrosis Research Division of the OABr, where Vasyl Martyuk, founder and member of the Board of Directors of the Sok "Fayna Polyana" and head of the farm "Famav". The soldiers need Dron "Darts".

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The conference comes to an end. Photo shooting near the brand wall.

19:40 – 22:00

The conference comes to an end. Photo shooting near the brand wall.

Lunch

December 13

Business tour to leading berry, freezing, and processing enterprises December 13 – Kamyanka-Buzkyj Food Products Plant, and farm “Prykarpattya Agro”.

8:00 Departure from Baszta Prochova, Pidvalna Street, 4, Lviv.

10:00 – 12:00 Visit to “Prykarpattya Agro” (TM

Boikivchanka) https://maps.app.goo.gl/99DC472drna42pHS7?g_st=iv. Address: Pidberezhya, Ivano-Frankivsk region, Pid Yakubovym

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:30 – 17:00 Visiting Kamyanka-Buzkyj Food Products Plant https://maps.app.goo.gl/LqJGn98KBHZaG7j78?g_st=av Address: Kamianka-Buzka, 1 Dzherelna St.

17:00–18:00 Return to Lviv