Third International Conference and Fair 'Vegetables and Fruits of Ukraine' - 2006

Exhibition organizers:
• „Expocenter of Ukraine” National Complex 
• “Agrooglyad: Vegetables and Fruit” magazine

Exhibition manager:
• „Expocenter of Ukraine" National Complex.

Conference manager:
• IA “APK - Inform”

Participants:
• Producers and suppliers of the equipment for aftergathering processing, storing and packing of vegetables, fruit and berries. 
• Producers and suppliers of seeds, plant protection means, young plants, hothouses, irrigation systems, other material and technical resources and technique for vegetable- and fruit–growing.
• Large producers and processors of vegetables, fruit and berries.
• Companies engaged in vegetable storing and wholesale, vegetable and fruit sections of superstores, transport and forwarding companies, analytical agencies, insurance, leasing companies, research institutes and establishments.

Exhibition topics:
• Perspective sorts and hybrids of vegetables, fruit and berries, growing of planting material and young plants.
• Perspective highly-mechanized technologies of growing, care and gathering of:
- vegetables of open and closed soil
- melons and gourds
- fruit, berries and grapes
- potatoes
Using: systems of drip irrigation, modern high-efficient means of plant protection, fertilizers and microfertilizers, machines for qualitative soil tilling, sowing-machine for precise sowing and sprout-planting machines,  syringes, combines for gathering of fruit and berries.
• Technologies of aftergathering processing of fruit and vegetables:
- stages, time and a way of gathering, prior freezing.  
- washing, peeling, sorting, calibration, pounding.
• Fruit and vegetable storing technologies:
- technologies for adaptation of old store-houses and building new ones taking into consideration modern requirements to heat    regulation, ventilation,  humidity and other operation factors. 
- specificity of storing of different  fruits, vegetables and berries in cold stores.
 - specificity of storing of fruit and vegetables in the regulated atmosphere.
• Fruit and vegetable processing technologies:
- initial processing, deep freezing, drying.
- preserving and equipment for tinned food factories
- producing of puree, juices, jams etc.
• Modern packing for fruit and vegetables:
- multi-layer corrugated cardboard boxes of different sizes, modern packing for berries.
- individual cells for fruit and berries.
- plastic containers for fruit long-term storing.
- net-sleeve, stretch-tape and other kinds of packing for fruit and vegetables.
- machines for packing of  fruit, berries and vegetables.
• Effective marketing of fruit and vegetables:
- specificity of retail trade of fruit and vegetables, effective merchandising, equipment for vegetable and fruit sections of superstores (modern fruit and vegetable show-cases, scales and other trade equipment)
- effective organization of production and marketing of fruit and vegetables (selection of crops, market information about prices and market survey, contracts of growth, Internet using for marketing).
- Prospects of making and developing of wholesale market networks.

The exhibition aims are the following:
• to present the technological and investing  potential of fruit and vegetable industry and attracting of new Ukrainian and foreign investments. 
• to promote  the growth  of domestic vegetable and fruit market and making of its infrastructure.
• to develop the international trade of fresh vegetable, fruit, and  products of processing, and establish new productive business contacts.
• to develop modern competitive and high-technological fruit and vegetable business: producing, processing, storing and trade of fruit and vegetables:
• to apply new scientific developments connected with vegetable-, potato, melon and gourd-growing, horticulture and wine-making

Every participant has a possibility to show his achieves, conclude mutually-beneficial contracts, spread the market of sale abroad as well as in Ukraine.

The 25%-discount of stand cost at the exhibition «Vegetables and Fruit of Ukraine-2006» are given to the enterprises, firms that take part in the 3d conference «Vegetables and Fruit of Ukraine 2006».

Informational Support:
News-papers: “Farmer economy”, “Agricultural Life in Ukraine”, “Agrarnyk”.
Magazines: “Agrooglyad: Vegetables and Fruit”, “Vegetable Growing”, ”Agrosvit”, ”Agromarket”, ”Agropartner”, “Kharchovyk”,”Exhibitions and Fairs Calendar”, “Products and Ingredients”, “Food & Drinks”, “Chemistry. Astronomy. Service”,  “Goods. Services. Prices”, “House. Garden. Vegetable Garden”, “The Real Master”, “Agro Perspective”, “Food Industry”, “Agrobusiness Today”.
Weekly publications: “Press - exchange”.

Expocenter provides with the following exhibition services:
- projection, design, decorating of expositions.
- standard and exclusive stand design.
- advertising-informational campaign.
- entering of participants information into print and electronic exhibition catalogue.
- flower-decorative exposition mounting.
- transport-forwading and customs services, insurance.
- hotel accommodation.  

We will do our best to take into consideration all participants’ wishes.
If you want to take part in the exhibition, please, fill in the application.

Exhibition managers:
Olena Zhuk, phone/fax            +38(044) 596-91-44, expo13@expocenter.com.ua
Inna Mandebura, phone/fax   +38(044) 596-91-18, expo12@expocenter.com.ua

Information about the conference:
Agency of marketing IA “APK-Inform” phone/fax +38(0562) 32-07-95, mailto:market@apk-inform.com http://www.log.org.ua/rus/conferences/

 Welcome to the Exhibition!
“Expocenter of Ukraine” National Complex,
1 Glushkov Ave., Kyiv, Ukraine, 03680
Tel./Fax: + 38 (044) 596-91-44, 596-91-18
www.expocenter.com.ua