In 2013 the most popular in the CIS specialized fruit and vegetable conference “Fruits & Vegetables of Ukraine-2013” celebrates its 10th anniversary. 10 years of ensuring the most up-to-date information on the fruit and vegetable market developments in Ukraine and the world, 10 years of direct meetings between the leading representatives of the market for fruits, vegetables, berries and mushrooms. This year will not be an exception, and the conference attendees will receive an exclusive program of the events within the anniversary conference, inclusive of traditional 3rd International Trade Forum with leading retail chains and importers from Ukraine and Russia.

For the third year in a row, having moved to the most modern and convenient exhibition center of Ukraine and combined its activities with the only technological exhibition for fruit and vegetable market professionals – Fresh Produce Ukraine (the exhibition area and number of visitors growing year by year), the conference retains its status of the largest annual fruit and vegetable event in the CIS!

The conference sessions will traditionally be held for two days, and the third day - November 28 - will be devoted to the International Trade Forum, which has acquired a reputation of the most professional center for fruit and vegetable purchasers in Ukraine within the past 2 years. The conference enables farmers to conclude contracts of sale to supermarket chains, wholesale companies and processors as well as contracts of purchase of inputs, machinery and equipment to meet their business requirements.

Key moments of the current conference:

• Traditional rankings of retail chains according to different criteria

• Presentations of new investment projects in the fruit and vegetable sector

• Cooperation-with-retail-sector master class etc.

The conference will traditionally be attended by the representatives of all links of the fruit and vegetable business without exception: farmers, input and equipment suppliers, managers of supermarket chains, processors, importers and specialized mass media.

The conference program will include rankings of leading input and equipment suppliers, supermarket chains, varieties and hybrids of key crops and other information enabling to keep an eye on a complicated and rapidly changing fruit and vegetable market.

It is the conference attendees that will be the first in November 2013 to know about fruit and vegetable production and price forecast for the season 2014/15. They will also obtain exclusive information about price developments in the second half of the current season and listen to the international fruit and vegetable business leaders' opinions.

The conference sessions devoted to the market developments, growing, handling, cooling and storage technologies will as before present novelties appeared in the market.

Key conference sections:

• The market for potatoes, vegetables and fruits in Ukraine and Russia: exclusive production, price, exports and imports forecast. The previous season mistakes analysis

• The global market: exclusive forecasts from the leading international experts

• Investment forum: assessment of the most attractive niches in the fruit and vegetable business

• Technological forum: progressive trends in fruit, vegetable and potato production technologies

• Modern produce storage, cooling and quality retention technologies

• Sorting, packaging and other ways of post-harvest and pre-sale handling of fruits and vegetables

• Rankings of fruit and vegetable varieties and hybrids in Ukraine

• Fruit and vegetable marketing

The event will be attended by about 300 professionals from 15-20 countries throughout the world with growers accounting for almost a half of them. 25% of the conference audience will be represented by trading enterprises; processors, input and equipment suppliers and other companies related to the fruit and vegetable business will account for another 25%.

The event is efficient thanks to a possibility to get a full conception of the fruit and vegetable market situation and its prospects, assess novelties in growing, handling, processing, packaging, storage technologies and marketing approaches, conclude contracts of supply and sale, find new target markets as well as communicate with colleagues, share ideas, knowledge and experience just within three days of the exhibition, conference and trade forum.

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Would you have any questions regarding the events, please contact International Relations Department of Fruit-Inform:

Mr Ievgen Kuzin

tel: +380 (562) 321595, ext. - 341 (Ukraine)

tel: +7 495 7894419 (Russia)

cell: +380 96 5836323

email: [email protected]