The
1st International Specialized Exhibition
"InterAgroBusiness" took place
in Odessa from October 15 till October
17, 2009.
This first agricultural
exhibition in the Black Sea region of
Ukraine was supported by the Ministry
of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine,
the Odessa Regional State Administration,
the Agrarian Chamber of Ukraine, the Organic
Federation of Ukraine, and the Association
of Ukrainian Farmers "Ukrainian Agribusiness
Club".
The InterAgroBusiness
2009 was opened by Nikolay Kiseolar, Deputy
Head of the Odessa Regional State Administration,
Emzar Dzirkvadze, Minister of Agriculture of
the Adzharsky Autonomous Republic of Georgia,
Dr. Volker Sasse, First Secretary of the German
Embassy in Ukraine, and Eugene Milovanov, Chairman
of the Board of the Organic Federation of Ukraine.
84 exhibitors from
Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, Germany,
Italy, and Turkey as well as representatives
of companies from other countries presented
agricultural machinery and equipment,
accessories, seeds and seedlings, greenhouses,
fertilizers and other agrochemical products,
farming equipment, feeds and additives
for animal industries and poultry farming,
veterinary preparations,
and organic food and products at the show.
The International
Conference "Agrarian Sector of the
South of Ukraine: Time for Investments"
became one of the important business events
of the InterAgroBusiness 2009. This conference
was supported by the Federal Ministry
of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection
of Germany (BMELV) and organized by the
Association "Ukrainian Agribusiness
Club", German-Ukrainian Policy Dialogue
in Agriculture (BMELV), Ukrainian Institute
for Economic Research and Policy Consulting,
and the Regional Fund for Support
of Entrepreneurship in the Odessa Oblast.
Conference
program
Within the frames of
InterAgroBusiness, the seminar "Organic
production as an alternative way for the
Agro-Industrial Complex
of Ukraine to exit out of the economic
crisis" was organized by the
Organic Federation of Ukraine. Leading
Ukrainian and international experts discussed
perspectives of organic production in
Odessa region, its technological features,
procedures of organic inspection and certification,
possibilities of effective sale of organic
products in Ukraine and on the foreign
markets.
Odessa region
is located in the far Southwest of Ukraine
and borders on the Ukrainian regions of
Vinnytsia, Kirovograd, and Nikolaev, as
well as on the borders of Moldova, Romania
and the Black Sea.
Odessa Oblast
is the largest region of Ukraine with
a total area of 33,300 square km. While
this is approximately the size of Belgium
or the Netherlands, the Odessa region
covers not more than 5.5% of Ukraine's
total territory. The capital city of the
region is Odessa, one of the largest cities
in Ukraine.
Presentation
of Odessa region
