Press release no. 5/2015
From RDPs to biodiversity: the Agrilevante agenda
A heavy schedule of conferences, seminars and workshops set up by
universities, other entities, institutions and publishing houses will
accompany the duration of Agrilevante for analyses, thorough study and
times for comparisons on the major issues of interest and the current state
of affairs in agriculture and mechanical engineering in the sector.
The schedule of Agrilevante 2015 meetings opens Thursday, October 15th,
with a press conference attended by the Puglia Regional Commissioner for
Agriculture, Leonardo Di Gioia, Fiera del Levante President Ugo Patroni
Griffi and the FederUnacoma president, Massimo Goldoni, to be held in
the Puglia Region Hall, Pav. 20, at 11:30 am. Also expected to turn up is
Minister for Agricultural and Forestry Policy Maurizio Martina.
Also planned for the same inaugural day is a seminar on an issue crucial
for the future of manufacturers of specialist tractors, Narrow Track
Tractors – A Technical and Politial Issue, on updating off-road vehicles
for compliance with the new European Union regulation on engine
emissions. The session is scheduled for the afternoon of the 15th at 4:30
pm in the Biancospina Hall, Pavilion 10.
Further down the schedule is a conference set up by the Agrarian Faculties
of the Universities of Bari and Foggia in collaboration with
FederUnacoma and the Puglia Agro-Food Press Association entitled
Vegetable-Fruit Supply Chain Machinery and Plant: Technological
Innovation at the Service of Enterprise for technical-scientific
comparisons among personnel in applied research in this mechanization
sector, planned for Friday, October 16th, in the Biancospino Hall, Pav. 10 –
9:00 am.
Also planned for Friday are a number of meetings beginning with one
entitled, National and Puglia Region Regulatory Panorama for the
Control of Irrigation Machinery. This meeting is sponsored by the
University of Bari, the Puglia Region and ENAMA, the National
Agricultural Mechanization Agency, for studies and information for
workers in the field of plant treatment and the framework of current
regulations applied to control irrigation machinery at the European,
national and especially the Puglia Regional levels, held in the Leccio Hall,
Pav. 10 – 9:30 am. The next meeting coming up revolves around the
Italian Biomass Association (ITABIA) for bringing together academic
figures and private and public experts in the sector for analyses of the
economic prospects for green energy, The Biomass Resource and Green
Chemical Products, A Promising Production Chain for Mediterranean
Agriculture, set for the M.i.A. Salon Workshop Hall, Pav. 20 – 10:30 am.
Then comes a third meeting, backed by New Business Media, focused on
critical features and opportunities in the winemaking supply chain, New
Techniques, New Regulations, New Wine Varietals: Planting and
Vineyards Changing Skins, in the Biancospino Hall – 2:30 pm. Another
meeting scheduled for Friday the 16th is dedicated to the theme, All the
Help for Regional Development Programs (RDPs) for Conservation
Farming and Mechanization, organized by the publisher L’Informatore
Agrario for the participation of Italian experts and academics in Alloro
Hall, Pav. 10 – 10:00 am. The following day on the same site and at the
same time, these experts and academic figures will take part in a
conference entitled Profitability in Cereal Cultivations in South Italy
Between New RDPs and Sustainability. Those in attendance will be given
illustrations of the possibilities for linking innovation and savings and
respect for the environment. Also to report is the presentation in the Puglia
Region Hall, Pav. 20 at 9:30 am, of the Biodiver SO Project, an integrated
project taking up biodiversity and Puglia Region crops managed by the
Department of Agro, Environment and Territorial Sciences of the
University of Bari. On the same day, Saturday the 17th, the National Union
of Agricultural Machinery Dealers (UNACMA) are taking over the
Mech@griJOBS area furnished in stand 50, Pav. 18, for a talk show with
the participation of representatives of the major mechanical engineeringagricultural supply chains for dealing with the issues of the market,
revisions and training. Also set for the 17th, in Biancospino Hall, Pav. 10 at
10:30 am, is a meeting on training organized by CNR, FederUnacoma,
INAIL and the University of Bari entitled Professional Qualifications for
the Use of Some Types of Agricultural Machinery, Make Necessity a
Virtue.
Country Seminars sponsored by the Puglia Region, ICE, the Italian
Foreign Trade Agency, and FederUnacoma are planned for the 15th, the
afternoon of the 16th and the morning of the 17th in the Acero Hall, Pav.
20, for outlining for Italian business people in the agro-business sector the
commercial opportunities and partnerships offered in the Balkan countries
and from Turkey to India. The afternoon sessions are scheduled to begin at
3:30 pm and the one in the morning at 10:00 am. Rounding out the
information on offer for the Bari review to report is a series of seminars
and workshops sponsored mainly by ITABIA and L’Informatore Agrario.
In the M.i.A. Workshop Area in Pav. 20, the Italian Biomass Association is
staging daily seminars from Thursday to Saturday on bio-energy issues
from the point of view of Mediterranean agriculture. The Verona
publishing house, in the Vita in Campagna, Life in the Countryside area,
Pav. 20, is organizing 19 courses on vegetable crops and fruit orchards in
plots built live in the trade fair setting with theoretical lessons and
demonstrations.
All these Agrilevante meetings are open to the general public with free
entry. (The complete schedule is available on the Agrilevante website).
Rome, October 10, 2015