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The fairgrounds will host a number of technical conferences that will analyse the present and future challenges

The 9th edition of Fima Ganadera puts your eyes on new technologies

Drafting Interempresas03/03/2009

March 3, 2009

FIMA Ganadera 2009 returns to the calendar of Feria de Zaragoza with an eye on the future of the sector. Thus, the ninth edition of the international trade fair for Animal production, to be held in the pavilions of the Zaragoza trade fair institution from 24 to 27 March, will feature the presence of large firms in the market, in a year like thisthey have been unwilling to let pass the opportunity to participate in one of the largest platforms that exist currently in the South of Europe.

FIMA Ganadera is characterized by its high exhibition and technological content applied to the agricultural market and has a strong vocational emphasis. In the four-day, the trade fair event will present the latest global innovations to the livestock market, with technical and commercial solutions to improve the development of the activity. It's a show involving all sectors and subsectors related to the world of animal husbandry at the international level.

The sample becomes the specific framework for addressing issues related to the agricultural world, as well as the opening of new market in emerging countries, r & d, genetics or health care in the farming and food

The fairgrounds will host a number of technical seminars, conferences, lectures, assemblies and discussions which will analyse the present and the future of the global market challenges. Thus, around fifty associations, institutions and other agencies have chosen Fima Ganadera as Center for hosting this type of activity.

The sample is converted into the specific framework for addressing issues related to the agricultural world, as well as the opening of new market in emerging countries, r & d, genetics or health care in the farming and food.

Another of the strong points that serve to complement the exhibition is the realization of a Conference of trade missions and involving countries such as: Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Egypt, Slovakia, GuatemalaHonduras, Hungary, Iran, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Romania, Russia, Tunisia, Venezuela.

FIMA Ganadera 2007 welcomed more than 50,000 visitors, with 814 exhibitors from 25 countries.

The challenges of the future present in the technical conferences

FIMA Ganadera, will host as a number of technical conferences that discuss current issues is already usual. The poultry shall have a preferential space with two matches: Wednesday 25th with the 'day of poultry Marketing', that will be debated on the trajectory of the poultry, on the importance of the brand in the poultry sector and will present the book 'Biosecurity in the poultry farmers'; and the next day, the Professional Association of alternative poultry (AviAlter) organizes a workshop with the title ' differentiated eggs: A future in poultry raising of start-up option ', moderated by the President of the Association José Carlos Terraz.

Co-organized by the General diagnostic laboratory, Wednesday 25 celebrates a 'seminar on certification program', which will analyse the importance of the design of the brand, the certification of the beef and sheep, and the benefits and advantages that represents marketing certified products. You close the day, the director of the Aragonese Agency of food safety, Juan Badiola.

Two other items should be added that will be on the table at the technical conference that takes place at Fima Ganadera. With the title 'Conference on animal welfare', the 27th, the seminar aims to inform producers and managers of meat industries, dairy and eggs on the assessment of animal welfare and strategies of information systems to consumers that are being developed within the European project Welfare Quality. A day before, day 26, will be held the VII national meeting of operators on cereals, organized by Accoe, which will analyse the current situation and prospects for national and international grain markets; the overall picture of biofuels; late payments, breaches and defaults in the trade of grains and oilseeds; and the tools to analyze and understand the workings of the cereal market.

Homage to Professor Isidro Sierra

On the occasion of the recent retirement of the University of Zaragoza from the Professor Isidro Sierra Alfranca, there will be an act of public homage during Fima Ganadera, coinciding with the presentation of the book ' sheep: production and economy in the ovine species '. They intervene the Dres. Carlos Buxadé (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), Ricardo Revilla (Directorate-General of Rural Development, Government of Aragón) and Ricardo Cepero (University of Zaragoza). Such an act will take place on 25 March at 18: 30 pm in the Auditorium of the fair of Zaragoza.