November 29 2010, 10:58 Fruit-Inform

Fruit and vegetable business of Eastern Europe gathers in Kiev on December 1-2

This week, Kiev is to become a center of fruit and vegetable business of Eastern Europe during the largest event of the sector — the seventh international conference «Vegetables and Fruit of Ukraine-2010» that will take place as a part of the exhibition of the same name at «Expocenter of Ukraine», Kiev, Ukraine, on December 1-2, 2010.

The conference will be the largest-scale one within the last 3 years, and its program will be saturated of exclusive information from leading experts of the sector. Specially for this event, the organizers prepared for subscribers of Fruit-Inform a whole number of fundamental studies, inclusive of fruit and vegetable production and price forecast for the second half of the season and preliminary one for the season 2011/12, rating of Ukrainian supermarket chains according to quality of fruit and vegetable department, and the fundamental study «Apples of Ukraine: present situation and prospects of production, storage, post harvest handling, processing, and marketing» .

The general sponsor of the conference is Fitomag company offering optimum solutions for preserving quality of fruits and vegetables. The company is currently working on development of the whole number of novelties for improving of storage of different categories of fruit and vegetable produce. The sponsor of the conference is Plattenhardt+Wirth GmbH, which has many-year experience in development and maintenance of fruit and vegetable storage facilities (ULO, DCA) of the highest quality in CIS countries.

We should also mention another novelty at the conference: round table meetings with involvement of leading experts of the sector, who will be skilfully able to answer all questions of participants, and forum of purchasers that will enable to get into direct contact with major Ukrainian and Russian purchasers of fruits and vegetables. As of today, participation in the event was confirmed by companies from 12 countries throughout the world, inclusive of practically all leaders of fruit and vegetable sector of Ukraine, from major producers and processors, to suppliers of seeds and material and technical resources, wholesalers, and supermarket chains.