08:00 - 9:00 

Participant registration at the conference "Vegetable and Berry Growing: in Open Ground and Undercover. Technologies and Innovations".

Coffee break. Participant registration to a business tour to be held on 28, February.

 

09:00 - 18:00

Exhibition - presentation of equipment, technologies and materials for berry – vegetable - flower growing, processing, cooling and freezing industries. Public tasting and exhibition of fruit, berry and vegetable products – fresh, processed products and juices.

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

 

09:00 - 09:20 

Opening of the conference. Greetings from the organizers and partners.

Kateryna KONIEVA and Nadiya YASHCHUK – founders of the media group “Technologies and Innovations”, conference organizers.

 

Welcoming speeches:

• Oleg Pustovoit, founder of the farm.

 

09:20 – 09:40

"How to obtain high-quality vegetables and berries in conditions of global warming". - Valentyna YAMKOVA, Head of the Science and Agrochemical Service Department of the company "Vitera-Ukraine" - the Main Technology Partner of the conference.

 

09:40 – 10:05

"Growing raspberry and blackberry undercover in artificial substrates: world experience". - Jeremy DARBY (UK), independent agronomist - consultant on growing berries and asparagus, with more than 40 years of experience and advising berry growers and berry nurseries in the UK, Europe, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine and other countries of the world. 

 

10:05 – 10:20

"Growing grapes undercover: peculiarities of growing and care. According to the results of the 2024 season" - Olga YULINA, owner of the Yulinykh Vineyard.

 

10:20 – 10:40

"World-class biological solutions in growing berries and vegetables". - Igor CHAYKA, Commercial Director of Agritema.

 

10:40 – 11:00

"Peculiarities in pollination during growing berries and vegetables undercover. Secrets of high harvests" - Olena BOLTOVSKA, a specialist in pollination and protection of fruit and vegetable crops, is the project manager at Rosana Biological Solutions. 

 

11:00 - 11:20

“From the experience of growing berries, vegetables and cherries in tunnel film greenhouses”. – Oleg DIDUKH, representative of the HAYGROVE company - Main Technological Partner of the conference.

 

11:20 – 11:35

"Useful microbiota in technologies of growing berries and vegetables". - Yaroslava BUKHONSKA, plant physiologist of the biotechnology company BTU.

 

11:35 – 12:10

"Differences in growing raspberries in tunnels and in open ground". 

- Bartlomiej DANEK, director of NIWA hodowla roślin jagodowych (Poland), 

- Roman FRANCHUK, head of LNZ group.

 

12:10 – 12:30

"How to go from growing to full cycle production: the facilities of modern processing equipment". - Robert REISIG, representative of KRONEN GmbH.

 

12:30 - 12:50

"Proper lighting for greenhouses is the key to high harvest. Practical experience using the example of the company "Askania-Flora". 

- Volodymyr LUSCHIY, project manager, 

- Viktor PIDOPRYGORA, head of the department of the company "GREEN POWER EURO ELECTRIC UKRAINE".

 

12:50 – 13:30

“Growing berries and vegetables undercover: experience of 2024, technologies and innovations. Financing ways, prospects for development”. – Moderator - Taras BASHTANNYK, head of the Ukrainian Fruit and Vegetable Association.

• Dmytro SOLOMCHUK, People`s Deputy of Ukraine, on the ways of grant support in 2025. 

• Igor VISHTAK, Director of the Department of Agrarian Development at the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine.

• Serhiy UKRAINETS, founder of the company "Triada-MK"; 

• Natalia PUKSHYN, founder of BlueBerry Club.

Participants: managers and chief agronomists of berry, horticultural, and vegetable farms.

 

13:30 – 14:30

Exhibition-tasting of berries, vegetables, fruits, as well as drinks and processed products.

 

• Farm Valentyna - juices

• ТМ Kuhva - ciders

• Strong Distillery - distillates

• "Yagidna Polyana" - drinks and products (jams, pastilles, marmalade) from blueberries

• "Black Walnut" (FOP M. Kostyuk) – drinks and teas from black walnut 

• "Rovy-agro" - sea buckthorn tea.

 

14:30 – 14:50

"How to create an effective business that is actively developing. Why use tunnels, not greenhouses? The most important issues that berry and vegetable growers need to pay attention to". - Bohdan LUTCHYN, founder of the Berry Prykarpattya Farm Group.

 

14:50 - 15:10

"Regulation of the planting material market in Ukraine". - Ivanna MARCHENKO, plant variety specialist at the patent law firm "Pakharenko and Partners".

 

15:10 – 15:25

"On how to increase profit in fruit and vegetable processing". - Olga RESHETNIK, business development manager of Tolsma Teknik.

 

15:25 – 15:40

"Steel buildings are reliable solutions for processing and storing products, as an example of successful projects". - Andriy VASYLYK, regional representative of the company LLENTAB.

 

15:40 – 16:00

"Range and technological peculiarities of modern blueberry production". - Serhiy ZMIYCHUK, General Director of the company FruTek.

 

16:00 - 16:15

"How technology and artificial intelligence are changing the berry and fruit business". - Oleksandra VOLOVYK, Business Development Manager xFarm (online).

 

16:15 – 16:30

"Innovative Belgian fertilizers GroGreen - maximum results!" - Olena KUBAY, Head of Sales and Key Customer Development Department of the company "Grosstar", microbiologist, phytopathologist, plant physiologist.

 

16:30 – 16:45

"Promotion of your product through giving reasons for own uniqueness, using the example of Green Wave Organic vertical farms". - Volodymyr NOVY, candidate for mentor of the Board business community, owner of the Green Wave company - vertical farms, living showcases, greenhouse complexes, vegetables, greens.

 

16:45 – 17:05

"Current work on the strawberry plantation for spring, including accelerating the berry ripening. Undercover and open ground". - Iryna KOBRYNETS, agronomist-consultant.

 

17:05 – 17:20

"Drip irrigation systems for berry and vegetable growing". - Natalia BELIKHINA, drip irrigation technology consultant at Eucalipt P company.

 

17:20 – 17:35

"Biological protection in storage chambers: research results and prospects in applying". - Artur SIZHUK, agronomist-consultant for berry crops at Biochem Agro.

 

17:35 - 17:50

"Certification of berry and vegetable farms". - Igor CHECHITKO, expert with GlobalG.A.P, partner of Organic Expert Consulting company.

 

17:50 - 18:10

"Creating technology for growing white cabbage taking into account its biological characteristics and physiological needs". - Zinovia ELINSKA, agronomist-consultant.

 

18:10 – 18:30 

“Supplemental lighting of berry crops in protected soil”. – Viktor SHULESHKO, scientist, owner of the most effective vertical farm-laboratory in Ukraine, founder and CEO of GREEN FUTURE ENGINEERING LLC.

 

18:30 – 18:35

Summing up and closing the conference.

 

18:35 – 19:20

Charity auction in support of the 106th Battalion, where agronomist Oleg Chulga serves. 

 

19:30 - 22:00 

 

 

8:00 - Departure from the Verkhovyna hotel.

10:00 - 12:00 - visit to the farm

FOP Pustovoyt, village Kalytyanske,

Chernihiv region.

12:30 - 13:30 - lunch

15:00 - 17:00 - visit to the farm

Garden center "Green Planet",

village Hlibivka, Vyshgorod district.

18:00 - 19:00 – come back to the Verkhovyna hotel.