Time

Congress program

8.00–9.00

Registration. Coffee

9.00–9.05

Official opening

Andriy Dykun - DGC director

9.05–9.45

Agrimarkets
World grain market

Christian Bickert– leading consultant of DLG (Germany)

9.45–10.15

Short-, medium- and long-term outlook and export opportunities for Ukraine

Serhiy Nalyvka - Consulting Agency AAA, director (Ukraine)

10.15-10.45

World oil crop/seed 2009. Prices and trends

Heinz-Wilhelm Strubenhoff– leader of projects on investigating agribusinesses in EU and Eastern Europe (Germany)

10.45–11.10

Foreign investments in agribusiness in Ukraine

Tomasz Tromer– representative of international investment fund Balticpropertytrust (Denmark)

11.10-11.30

Climatic changes and their impact on crop yields. What should agriproducers get ready for?

Tetiana Adamenko - chief of agricultural meteorology dept. at Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Center (Ukraine)

11.30-11.40

Discussion

11.40-12.00

Coffee break

12..00-12.30

TECHNOLOGY
Improving soil fertility to increase yield

Georgiy Maksymchuk - technical consultant at GeoAgro Consult (Ukraine)

12.30-13.00

Modern soil cultivation systems in Ukraine. Tillage in the conditions of moisture deficiency. Opportunities to reduce production costs avoiding negative consequences in future

Johann Tatzber– director of the consulting company «Agroconsulting GmbH», independent consultant in crop production (Austria)

13.00–13.30

Modern technology of rape seed production. Soil preparation with and without ploughing

Oleksiy Serhienko - technical consultant, director of Consulting Dept. at GeoAgro Consult (Ukraine)

13.30–13.50

 Effect of seed treatment on crop yields in modern crop production

Ivan Svidaniuk— chief of the laboratory of intensive technologies of grain crops and maize at National Research Center of the Institute of Agriculture UAAS

13.50-14.00

Discussion

14.00-14.45

Lunch

14.45-14.55

Salutary address from  companies

14.55-15.05

“Agritechnica 2009”- # 1 exhibition of farm machinery in the world!

Victoria Arndt– DLG representative

15.05–15.35

AGRIBUSINESS AND FINANCE
Law aspects of relationship between agriproducers and international finance institutions

Andriy Karnaukhov –representative of lawyer’s association «Volkov Koziakov and Partners»(Ukraine)

15.35–16.00

Credits in agribusiness

Oleksiy Volchkov– board member of corporate business "Index Bank” (Ukraine)

16.00–16.15

Risks in agriproduction and ways to minimize their impact in conditions of financial unstability

Yuriy Zolotar— chief of the dept. of insurance of risks in agriproduction Insurance Group TAS Ltd.

16.15–16.25

Discussion

Andriy Dykun—DGC director

16.25-16.30

Official close of the congress