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September 17 2007, 14:30

Russian and Ukrainian fruit&vegetable producers will see a unique and inexpensive technology of fruit&vegetable quality storage and transportation

"Agrooglyad: Vegetables and Fruits" weekly is happy to inform all fruit&vegetable market players in Ukraine and Russia that Russian company "Phyto-Mag" LLC, which representative office was opened in Ukraine past year, decided to sponsor the specialized forums dedicated to fruit&vegetable storage in the framework of the second international conference "Fruit&Vegetable Business of Russia 2007" to be held October 23rd-25th 2007 on the territory of "Expocenter" in Moscow, and also the fourth international conference "Fruits and Vegetables of Ukraine 2007. Meeting New Leader", to be held on December 4th-6th 2007 on the territory of the National Complex "Expocenter of Ukraine" in Kyiv. "Phyto-Mag" company has been already well known among many producers and wholesalers who trade fruits and vegetables in Russia and Ukraine. In the beginning the company's presentations aroused certain distrust among the producers; but, the first results of the practical application of "Phyto-Mag" technologies impressed even the most skeptical market players. The conducted research and reliability qualification confirmed that the application of "Phyto-Mag" substance is the most effective for the treatment of the climacteric fruits and vegetables (apple, pear, plum, quince, apricot, peach, nectarine, banana, persimmon, squash, cabbage, tomato, cucumber, watermelon, melon, fresh herbs, etc.) There is an opportunity to simultaneously apply the substance to any quantity of products. The introduced technology may be suggested as the alternative for the expensive technology of fruit storage in controlled atmosphere environment (CA storage). Also, the technology of "Phyto-Mag" firm let the producers significantly improve the characteristics of fruit storage in CA. The participants of "Phyto-Mag" seminar had a chance to see with their own eyes the practical efficiency of the company's technology; the company conducted this event under support of "Agrooglyad: Vegetables and Fruits" on the territory of the Closed Joint-Stock Organization "Crimean Fruit Company" this year. In the day of the seminar its participants visited the cold storage of "Crimean Fruit Company" where apples have been stored for 7 months with the application of "Phyto-Mag" company. To the opinion of Andriy Yarmak, the expert of "Agrooglyad: Vegetables and Fruits", company's technologies will be of interest to all orchardists, vegetable producers and flower growers, greenhouse complexes, logistics companies, and also wholesale companies who perform the long-time storage of the purchased fruits and vegetables. In addition to "Crimean Fruit Company", other large growers of fruits and vegetables in Ukraine, the suppliers of perishable products (berries in particular), and greenhouse complexes actively apply "Phyto-Mag" technologies. The technology also proved its high efficiency for the product imports and exports. In particular, this technology is able to significantly increase the efficiency of the importers' activities supplying banana, citrus fruits and other exotic fruits and berries. "Phyto-Mag" technology has already been mastered, it has proved the high efficiency in the large Russian companies, such as Agro-firm "Sad-Gigant" in Krasnodarskiy kray, Closed Joint-Stock company "15 Let Oktyabrya", agricultural enterprise "Agronom" in Lipetskaya region and others. In particular, the technology has been approbated for such varieties like Renet Simirenko, Golden Delicious, Gala, Red Chiv, Granny Smith, Braeburn, StarCrimson, Florina, Antonovka, Idared, Lobo and others. The sponsorship of the specialized forums let the company visualize all advantages of this technology and its high economic feasibility to the participants of the conferences. "Phyto-Mag" representatives invite all representatives of fruit&vegetable business to participate in the conferences "Fruit&Vegetable Business of Russia 2007" and "Fruits and Vegetables of Ukraine 2007. Meeting New Leader". In the framework of these events they will try to answer any questions regarding the company's technologies and provide the fullest information to everyone interested.