Greenhouse Industry Fair is supported by Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

In the letter dated by February 21 addressed to Directorate of the Fair Agricultural Counselor of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ukraine Mr. Meeuwes Brouwer confirmed his support to S-TEAM Exhibition Company and Greenhouse Industry Fair. In particular Mr. Brouwer mentioned that he is glad to see how close cooperation and partnership has been growing over the years between Dutch and Ukrainian companies in the greenhouse sector. Also he expressed confidence that Greenhouse Industry Fair will become a solid platform where greenhouse producers, suppliers and representatives of leading knowledge centers can meet each other and develop their business cooperation. The whole text of Mr. Brouwers’ letter you can read here.

On February, 28^th within the business program of the “Greenhouse industry fair 2012” for the first time Dutch-Ukrainian Greenhouse Industry Forum will be held. This Forum will bring together on one platform many experts-adherents for the purpose of discussion pointed problems connecting with protected soil issue and will promote formation of effective practical mechanisms for their decision.

The actual forum topics:

• Achievements and requirements of the Ukrainian greenhouse sector.
• Teamwork experience of manufacturers in the European Union.
• Dutch experience of productivity increasing of the greenhouse manufacture.
• Advanced experience exchanging of cultivation of the Ukrainian greenhouse production
• Dutch-Ukrainian cooperation in Ukraine, experience exchanging of cultivation in various cultures in greenhouse conditions.

The importance of this event consists that the Forum will conduct in the form of dialogue between experts of Ukraine and Holland. Exactly here “problem” points of cooperation, mechanisms of the decision of existing problems will be designated. Moreover, the advanced experience of the Dutch manufacturers will be adapted for realities of the Ukrainian protected soil sector. Let's make together this event important for everyone greenhouse worker!

Organizers:

Association Ukrainian Agribusiness Club / AgriEvent

Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ukraine

Greenhouse Industry Fair / S-TEAM Exhibition Company

03.02.2012

We are continue to inform you about laborious task our call-center of the Greenhouse industry fair 2012.

Last week of January, employees of the call-center had been interrogated 218 enterprises and 171 summer resident who are interested in visiting of an industrial fair and events within the business program. According to the results 116 of 171 respondents-summer residents have their own greenhouses, 47 of them are planning to construct one. The majority of interrogated people possess greenhouses by area around 2 to 10 hundred square meters. In view of third of interrogated farmers hold the land of the protected soil around 10 to 50 hundred square meters, thus 80 % of them are planning to expand.

Putting a question by call-center: “What would be desirable for you to see or to learn at the Greenhouse industry fair 2012?” the majority of potential visitors have become interested in such range of the equipment and technologies:

• Climate control and automatic equipment (special attention visitors are going to give purchasing of the equipment for heating and irrigation, watering and drainage);
• Covering materials;
• Modern technologies of cultivation in the protected soil (most of all visitors are interested in seeds, plant growing, vegetable growing, fertilizers and feeding compounds);
• Greenhouse building on a turn-key basis (particular interest arouse greenhouses and hotbeds of farmer purpose).

Interesting note: while farmers and summer residents inquires equipment for processing and protection of plants to the lesser degree than modern technologies of cultivation, for representatives of the wholesale and retail companies purchasing of such equipment is priority. Wholesalers are interested in equipment for application of fertilizers in the soil. That factor can indicate uprising of interest to such equipment from large greenhouse economy sector.

In a priority of cultivation of vegetables indisputable leader are cucumbers (95 voices), tomatoes take the second place (86 voices), greens - 37 voices, pepper - 18 voices, other voices were distributed between flowers, fruits and mushrooms.

“Greenhouse industry fair” is necessary tool for development of the protected soil field in Ukraine. Interest of respondents to greenhouse fair testifies it. For instance 127 from 171 interrogated have noticed that they already visited first industrial fair “Greenhouse industry 2011”. At the same time with fruit-and-vegetable market increasing requirements in working of greenhouse sector rise as well. Nowadays it’s become more difficult to adopt new technologies, to grow new cultures and to get to know about novelties without having an access to actual and trustworthy information. Greenhouse industry fair - reliable instrument of the protected soil field development as exactly here the manufacturer of the equipment and greenhouse workers come together, exactly here supplier of seeds and protection frames of plants and the owner of a farm meet each other, just here the owner of nursery and the summer resident-fan meet one another.

See you on Greenhouse industry fair on February, 28^th- March, 1^st !

Sometimes it happens that preparations for the exhibition we postpone for the last few weeks, and many issues are not resolved and accumulate until the last moment. In order to facilitate your task of finding the necessary information, quick access to the map, book the invitation for the show, choose and book the nearest hotel, rent a conference-room, KyivExpoPlaza web-site offers all these services. Without leaving office, you can solve all the issues listed above with on-line mode at this site www.expoplaza.kiev.ua.

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