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The regional trade fair "Potato and vegetables 2005" took place in Poltava
In Saturday, on the 26th of February 2005, under the support of the General Department of Agriculture and Food, Oblast State Administration and Poltava State Agricultural Academy the regional trade fair "Potato and vegetables 2005" was conducted by Poltava oblast agricultural advisory service "Porada". The visitors of the trade fair had the opportunity not only to see the modern varieties and hybrids of potato and vegetables, but also to purchase them or sign the contract with seed producers and suppliers.
Potato and vegetable seeds were presented by the Institute of Potato Production, Ukrainian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, German firm "Europlant", the Institute of Vegetable Crops, Ukrainian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, German firm "Zatimeks", "Agrosvit", "Best Seeds of Europe", "Poltavasort nasinnyeovoch" and others.
Poltava office of Agricultural Marketing Project took an active part in the work of the trade fair presenting the AMP stand and the report concerning the trends of vegetable production development in the region.
In the framework of the trade fair the seminar was conducted during that the main questions of growing and seed production technologies for potato and vegetables were discussed.
In total more than 500 vegetable producers mainly from the private sector participated in the event.