Enhancing the efficiency of the agricultural and food industry in Ukraine – 18.12.2009

Side event as part of the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture

15 January 2010, 3.30 pm to 5.30 pm, InternationalCongressCenter ICC Berlin, room 6

(draft programme as of 15 December 2009)

 

Organisers:

Working Group on Agriculture, Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations (OA)

 

In cooperation with:                

German Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, Berlin

Ministry of Agricultural Policy of Ukraine, Kiev

Embassy of Ukraine, Berlin

Ukrainian Agribusiness Club, Kiev

Messe Berlin GmbH, Berlin

 

Programme

 

Welcome

Dr. Franz-Georg von Busse, Spokesman, Working Group on Agriculture, Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations (OA), Berlin

 

Welcoming address

Julia Klöckner, Parliamentary State Secretary for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, Berlin

 

Introductory talks

Dr. Jurij Melnik, Minister for Agrarian Policy of Ukraine, Kiev

 

Prof. Dr. Alfons Balmann, Managing Director, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO), Leipzig

 

Panel discussion

Dr. Jurij Melnik, Minister for Agrarian Policy of Ukraine, Kiev

 

Julia Klöckner, Parliamentary State Secretary for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection,

Berlin

 

Christoph Wigger, Vice President Sales and Marketing GUS, Deere & Company European Office,

Mannheim

 

Joachim Leuschner, Chairman, AMTU (association on sustainable development of modern agricultural methods and technologies in the

Ukraine)

 

Hartmut Schimetschek, Director Business Development

Eastern Europe, OSI International GmbH, Günzburg

 

Dr. Alex Lissitsa, President, Ukrainian Agribusiness Club (UCAB),

Kiev

 

Moderation

Dr. Lothar Hövelmann, Director Agriculture, Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft e.V. (DLG), Frankfurt / Main



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