The conference organizer is the media group «Technologies and Innovations», the publisher of the industry journals «Horticulture and Vegetables Growing & Nut Wood. T.I.», «Berry Field», and «Drinks & Beer. T.I.»

The venue will be announced later. 

 

The conference`s aim is the popularization and implementation of current technologies for growing and processing fruits, vegetables, and other fruits, contributing to the revival of traditional Ukrainian drinks based on fruits, berries, and vegetables and the production of value-added products.

 

• Discussion of the situation in the Ukrainian horticulture and vegetable growing during wartime and search for ways to solve it.

• Speeches by Ukrainian and foreign experts about successful experience in land management: cultivation and processing of vegetables and fruits.

• Presentation of the latest varieties and technologies in vegetable growing and horticulture.

• Exhibition of current technologies, equipment, and equipment for vegetable growing, horticulture, and processing.

• Public tasting of NFC juices from Ukrainian producers.

• Presentation and tasting of products based on fruits, berries, and vegetables: juices, ciders, fruit, and berry wines, tinctures and liqueurs, distillates, jams, purees, dried products, etc.

• Business tour to leading horticultural, vegetable, and processing farms in Ukraine.

• Charity auction of goods and services for vegetable growing and horticulture in support of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The auction will be held with the support of the Charitable Foundation "Strong and Free."

 

Participants: owners, managers, chief specialists of vegetable and horticulture farms, processing enterprises and product freezing companies, representatives of technological companies, scientists, and everyone, interested in creating and successfully developing their own business on their land.

 

• State support for the development of the fruit and vegetable industry in Ukraine.

• Prospects of vegetable growing as a successful business during wartime. War-related changes in the regional structure of vegetable production.

• Fruit and vegetable agronomy in Ukraine as of 2023: the most common pests and diseases and ways of protection against them.

• Trends in the current vegetable growing: traditional (cabbage, tomatoes, cucumbers, potatoes, onions, garlic, carrots, beets, etc.) and exotic crops (artichokes, asparagus, sweet potatoes, celery, etc.). From the experience of companies and enterprises, according to the results of 2022 - the first half of 2023.

• Ways of turning the "second bread" into money and real profit.

• Garlic in Ukraine: meeting the needs of the domestic market and developing export strategies

• Cabbage market: quality plus stability. From white cabbage variety to niche ones.

• Orchard + vegetable plantation = success. Technologies and innovations, implementation experience, and obtaining high results.

• Organic vegetable growing/horticulture: current state and development prospects.

• Greenhouse business: the latest approaches in vegetable growing and horticulture. Traditional and niche crops undercover. Is it worth investing in?

• Export potential in vegetable growing and horticulture: which crops and varieties are currently in trend.

• Latest solutions for fruit and vegetable processing, storage, and packaging. Freezing, drying, production of juices, concentrates, healthy food products, etc.

• Marketing in the fruit and vegetable sector as an unchangeable part of profitable business.

• Fruit and vegetable logistics in Ukraine.

• High-quality products should be sold at a high price, or how to organize pre-sale finishing touches and set up business relations with customers of various directions - from a restaurant to retail.  

 

October 25 – business tour to the leading horticultural, vegetable and processing farms of Khmelnytskyi region – Melnyk-Agro, Zorya, Zelenytsia Family Winery.

 

Melnyk-Agro is an innovative, maximally automated farm near Kamianets-Podilskyi. The area of greenhouses reaches 10 hectares, and open ground - more than 300 hectares. Cucumbers, tomatoes and herbs are grown there. The economy is maximally automated. Interestingly, the owners of the farm developed, designed and built everything themselves: the greenhouse, drip irrigation system, heating, software. The farm has installed film greenhouses with a double layer of film 150 microns wide and inflatable, so that the heating can be turned on at any time if necessary. The sizes of the greenhouses are different: 8x50, 8x65 and 8x210 meters. When the economy was first created, its founder immediately counted human work. That is, with the help of face ID, employees` working hours are recorded: when they arrive, go to lunch or finish their work.

 

Zelenytsia Family Winery operates in Khmelnytskyi region - in an area known to the general public as the "Podilskyi Tovtry" National Nature Park. It is there that vineyards, fruit and nut plantations grow, which will be demonstrated to the participants of the business tour. Also, all those willing will visit the winery and see how nuts are made into a unique nut oil, which is served in a special way at tastings.

 

We invite enterprises, companies, and farms specializing in horticulture, vegetable growing, and processing of vegetables and fruits, suppliers of equipment for soil cultivation, fruit and berry orchard care, harvesting and storage, freezing, drying, and packaging of products, technological companies specializing in plant care and protection, as well as representatives of trade and exporting companies to take part in the conference. 

 

We invite you to join the business community for our common victory in the future. Now more than ever it is important to support each other, unite, and solve urgent issues together. We believe in the Armed Forces and joint Victory!

 

Media group «Technologies and Innovations» started organizing conferences back in 2016. Now 35 large-scale events have already been held, with about 150–450 participants, not only from Ukraine, but also from Europe. From 30 to 50 leading companies from all over Ukraine, as well as from Poland, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, and other coutnries, traditionally introduced in the exhibitions of advanced technologies, which take place within events.

 

 

Larysa Tovkach, phone: +38 097 96 89 516, sad.nti@ukr.net

Anna Pankratenkova, phone: +38 097 759 25 83, reklama.nti@gmail.com

Iryna Petroniuk, phone: +38 096 49 166 92, oksana.buh.ti@gmail.com

Project manager: Nadiya Yashchuk, tel. +38 (068) 568-58-22, rnadia@ukr.net

Creative director: Kateryna Koneva, chief editor of the «Technologies and Innovations» project, phone: +38 067 238 18 51