The 2nd International Conference «Berries of Russia 2019» has taken place on February 19 – 20, 2019 in the Cultural Center of Sovhoz im. Lenina (7 A, poselok Sovhoza im. Lenina, Leninskiy Region, Moscow Oblast, Russia). The event is organized by the Russian Berry Union and FruitNews Information Agency.
Conference sponsors
We invite you to take part in the Conference, meet and exchange opinions with colleagues and co-thinkers, discuss the perspectives and problems of the berry industry development in Russia, learn or share information about new technologies, equipment, materials, varieties, fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides for berry plants.
The Conference audience will include berry growers and processors, suppliers of plants, fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides, services, equipment, materials for berries growing, packing and processing, wholesale and retail companies, scientific and educational organizations, media representatives.
Partisipants of the exibition
Conference Program Draft
9:00 – 10:00 Participants checkin
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon Welcome remarks. Discussion session: «Perspectives and problems of the berry industry development»
Welcome remarks:
- Pavel Grudinin, Chairman of the Board of Russian Berry Union
- Roman Nekrasov, Head of the Department of Crop Production, Mechanization, Chemicalization and Plant Protection of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation (to be confirmed)
- Sergey Hurtin, Head of the Shop for Plant Nurseries
Presentation of certificates to the new members of the Berry Union
Introduction of the industry experts
- Perspectives of the state support for the Russian berry growers
Roman Nekrasov, Head of the Department of Crop Production, Mechanization, Chemicalization and Plant Protection of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation (to be confirmed)
- Support to berry producers in regions on the example of Moscow region
Andrey Razin, Minister of agriculture and provisions of the Moscow region (to be confirmed)
- Control import of berry crops planting material
Aleksey Alekseenko, Assistant to the Head of Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance
- Conducting state registration tests and protection of new varieties of berry breeds
Olga Lesnykh, Acting Chairperson of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Gossortcomissiya"
Key industry issues:
- Introduction of new varieties, provision of berry growers with planting material
Zoya Tselykovskaya, Deputy Director of crop farming of CJSC Sovhoz im. Lenina
- Registration of the plant protection products and fertilizers for berry crops
Sergey Yastreb, General Director of Yagodnaya polyana LLC
- Attraction of specialists and seasonal workers for berry industry
Vyacheslav Plenkin, Director of Sladunika LLC
- Problems of melioration and irrigation projects implementation in berry orchards
Artur Movsisyan, Head of Movsisyan Farm
- Small farming development and cooperation among berry farmers
Nikolay Sklepkovich, Chairman of the Board of Agricultural Production Cooperative Arkhangelsk Cranberry
12:00 – 12:30 Coffee break
12:30 – 14:00 Round table: «Berry sales and industrial quality standards»
Session sponsor: Lider-Pack Company
- Organization of product sales. Work with wholesale buyers
Vyacheslav Plenkin, Director of Sladunika LLC
- Realization of fresh berries. Features and requirements when working with a wholesale company
Tatyana Ivanchenko, Quality Director of Greenfields-Logistic LLC
- Organization of product sales. Realization through retail chains or the organization of own trade points
Maksim Lagoda, Comercial Director of Russkaya Yagoda LLC
- Category "Fresh Berries". Requirements of Retail chains
Representatives of retail chains: Lenta, Billa, Metro, Globus, Perekrestok, Verny, Da, Utkonos (to be confirmed)
- Current trends in the packaging of berries and fruits for supply to retail chains
Konstantin Kurnykin, Sales Manager of Lider-Pak Company
- Blast cooling of the berries to increase shelf life and ensure product quality
Roman Gutsan, Director of Kaltemaschinen Company
14:00 – 15:00 Lunch
15:00 – 16:30 Round table: «Nursery for berry grower. To purchase or to grow the planting materials?»
Session sponsor: Shkolnyy Sad Nursery
- Requirements for the organization of nurseries for the cultivation of planting berry materials in Russia
Natalya Solovyeva, Deputy Head of the Department of Phytosanitary Supervision and Seed Control of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (to be confirmed)
- Partnership with berry plants suppliers in Russia and abroad Aleksandr Bota, Head of Nika Farm
- Necessity of certification for healthy and vital strawberry plants supply
Hans Van den Goor, Commercial Technical Director of De Kemp (Holland)
- Planting material of new varieties of everbearing raspberries for intensive gardens
Ilya Shiblev, Deputy Head of Shkolnyy Sad Nursery
- Path of planting material from selection to plantation
Vladimir Fedotov, General Director of Rassvet LLC
- Trends in the production of berry planting materials on the European market
Irina Kozlova, Leading Researcher, Head of the Strawberry Technologies group of the I.V. Michurin Federal Center of Sciences
16:30 – 17:30 Seminar: "Features and practice of creating a nursery for the industrial cultivation of berry planting materials”
Session sponsor: Magazin dlya Pitomnikov
- Modern berry nursery. Benefits and difficulties
Denis Shornikov, Scientific Secretary of the I.V. Michurin Federal Center of Sciences, PhD of the Agricultural Sciences
- Use of long-acting fertilizers for growing berry planting materials with a closed root system
Kseniya Ishevskaya, Chief Agronomist of Magazin dlya Pitomnikov Company
- Problems of production of berry planting material for industrial plantations
Yuriy Voskoboynikov, Assistant Professor of the Department of Horticulture, Viticulture and Winemaking of the Russian State Agrarian University MSHA of the K.A. Timiryazeva, PhD of Agricultural Sciences, Deputy Director of the Scientific and Production Nursery “Cherry Orchard”
17:30 – 18:30 Seminar: "The use of technology of microclonal propagation of planting material in berry growing"
- In-vitro reproduction. Nursery for nurseries. New Standard (GOST) and the impact of changes in state standards on the berry nursery operations
Dmitriy Mitin, Head of Gardening of Zelenye Linii - Kaluga LLC
- Advantages and disadvantages of in-vitro reproduction technology. Introduction of modern methods of quality control of planting material (on example of high blueberry)
Veronika Filipenya, Senior Researcher, Department of Biochemistry and Plant Biotechnology, GNU Central Botanical Garden of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (Belarus)
8:30 – 10:00 Participants checkin
9:00 – 10:00 Annual Meeting of the Russian Berry Union Members
10:00 – 12:00 Seminar: «Modern technologies of strawberry growing in Russia and worldwide. Phytosanitary issues in the berry orchards»
Session sponsor: Group of Companies Коrolev-Agro
Moderator: Irina Kozlova, Leading Researcher, Head of the Strawberry Technologies group of the I.V. Michurin Federal Center of Sciences
- International experience in the cultivation of berry crops. View of the Russian manufacturer
Sergey Yastreb, General Director of Yagodnaya polyana LLC
- European innovations in the cultivation of strawberries
Yevgeniy Mitnitskiy, General Director of Tulskiy Sad LLC
- Experience of organic cultivation of strawberries in Denmark
Aleksandr Prodan, Head of Divnyy Sad Farm
- Protection from pests and diseases of strawberries: methods of control and prevention
Erik Dekker, Sales Manager of FLEVO PLANT B.V. (Holland)
- Application of European standards and technologies in Yagodnye polya Company (Fragariya LLC)
Vasiliy Semenikhin, Agronomist of Yagodnye polya LLC & Igor Shutkin, Head of Sales Department of Fragariya LLC
- Complex solutions for fruit and berry projects: irrigation systems, polytunnels, nursery plants, fertilizers, agronomic accompaniment
Vladimir Kryuchkov, Business Director of Group of Companies Korolev-Agro
- Analysis of the applied technology of strawberry cultivation
Irina Kozlova, Leading Researcher, Head of the Strawberry Technologies group of the I.V. Michurin Federal Center of Sciences
- Application of biotechnology in the cultivation of berries
Dmitriy Frolov, Technical Specialist of Koppert RUS
12:00 – 12:30 Coffee break
12:30 – 14:00 Seminar: “Growing berries in protected ground”
Session sponsor: Company HayGrove
Moderator: Irina Koziy, General Director of Berry Union and FruitNews Information Agency
- Strawberry production in protected ground North-West Europe,
Frank van Alphen owner of Van Alphen Strawberry Plants (Holland)
- Use of renewable energy in the greenhouse of Iceland
Ilona Vasilyeva, Trade Representative of the Embassy of the Republic of Iceland in the Russian Federation (Iceland)
- From world experience to the practice of organizing strawberry production in Kazakhstan
Azamat Zeksembiev, Finance Director, Eco Farm 2015 LLP (Kazakhstan)
- Selection and technology of using the system for growing berries in greenhouses
Representative of the company Meteor Systems (Holland) (to be confirmed)
- Growing berries under the tunnels
Tim Crossman, European Sales Director of HayGrove Company (UK)
- Experience in the production of berry crops of protected ground Delphy BV
Anna Pashkevich, Representative of the company Delphy BV in Russia
12:30 – 14:00 Special session: “The results of the application of the program of corrective nutrition of berries”
Session sponsor: Group of Companies AgroPlus
Moderator: Valentina Kardovskaya, Leading Specialist of Group of Companies AgroPlus
- Program of corrective nutrition to improve the quality, taste, weight, transportability, preservation and marketable condition of fruits and berries, obtaining ecologically clean products (according to the results of application in 2018 on the fields of CJSC Sovhoz im. Lenina, Moscow region)
14:00 – 15:00 Lunch
15:00 – 18:30 Seminar: «Expanding the variety of berry growing in Russia»
Moderator: Irina Koziy, General Director of Berry Union and FruitNews Information Agency
- Assortment of raspberry and its cultivation technology
Sergey Evdokimenko, Chief Researcher, Head of the VSTISP experimental station
- Basic principles of blackberry trimming
Lidiya Gruner, Leading Researcher, Berry Breeding Department, FSBSI AURIute Selection of fruit crops
- Features of the mineral nutrition of tall-growing blueberry
Tatyana Kurlovich, Leading Researcher of the State Scientific Institution Central Botanical Garden of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (Belarus)
- Optimization of blueberry cultivation technology based on the experience of Polish producers
Pavel Korfanti, owner of the Korfanti nursery (Poland) and Aleksandr Lukyanchenko, Director of Yagody Chernozemya LLC
- Modern intensive technologies for growing blueberries
Fredericka Vogel, General Director of Holland Rosetta Company (Holland)
- Selection of blueberries varieties for growing in Russia
Igor Shamonin, Head of the Gardening of CJSC Sovkhoz im. Lenina
- What is the forestry farming? Prospects for wild berries plantation cultivation
Nikolay Sklepkovich, Chairman of the Board of Agricultural Production Cooperative Arkhangelsk Cranberry
- Cultivation of wild berries (fen berry & Arctic raspberry)
Natalya Chaynikova-Vakhrusheva, Director of Yagody Yugry LLC
- Honeysuckle varieties for cultivation in Russia
Dmitriy Bryskin, PhD of Agricultural Sciences of the I.V. Michurin Federal Center of Sciences/SPC Agropishcheprom
- Sea buckthorn is a berry with a broad market potential
Vadim Kolpakov, Director of NAC “Oblepicha” LLC
- The best varieties of sea buckthorn for the Central region of Russia
Natalya Bogomolova, Senior Researcher of FSBSI AURI Selection of fruit crops
Poster report:
Varieties of black currant breeding VNIISPK, suitable for mechanized harvesting
Anastasiya Bahotskaya, Researcher, Berry Breeding Department, FSBI VNIISPK
Russian Berry Union Contacts:
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E-mail: info@berry-union.ru
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