Expoaviga reinvents itself to make the most of a sector in crisis
May 28, 2010
This new format, which is celebrated with the name of Expoaviga Forum, enhances its scientific programme and has two distinct exhibition areas. Thus, an exhibition area for companies such as the equipment for farms that need open spaces to showcase their news, and other with modular stands, to those relating to the contest through its participation in the technical seminars is intended. The creation of this specific area is an unprecedented initiative in the history of the Hall and it has been very well received by veterinary laboratories and genetics companies, which have been in this model an efficient and cost-effective formula of participation.
The inauguration of Expoaviga Forum runs this time by the leader of the Ministry of environment and Rural Environment and Marino, Elena Espinosa, who, as in the last edition of the Fima 2010 will be who cut the Ribbon at the Palacio de Congresos of the enclosure Montjuïc of Barcelona.
A room marked by a scientific program of quality
The scientific programme, aimed at technicians, includes the seminar organized by the Spanish Federation of entrepreneurs producers of milk (Prolec), the forty-seventh scientific poultry symposium organized by the Spanish Association of poultry Science (Aeca) and the World Poultry Science Association (WPSA)together with the Conference organized by rabbit the Association Spanish of breeding (Asescu), the Spanish society of sheep and Caprinotecnia (Seoc) or the National Association of Porcinocultura scientific (Anaporc).
It should be noted the holding of the twenty-fourth Congress of the Group of specialists in Mamitis and quality of milk (G-Temcal), which takes place days 9 and 10, and is analysed whether increasing controls of milk quality on farms is a useful alternative to deal with the serious crisis in the sector in our country. Under the motto 'Assurance of quality and safety of milk on the farm and its certification', the annual meeting of the G-Temcal revolves around two major blocs. The first, which takes place on the morning of the 9th, addresses the importance of the certification of the production of milk at farm to ensure their quality in order that the consumer may have more information at the time of purchase. The Dutch Louwrens van Keulen, director of the section of milk from farm in the Qlips company specializing in quality analysis of the dairy chain, will explain the experience of this sector in the Netherlands while that the Assistant Director-general of livestock products of the MarmEsperanza Orellana, will present the campaign 'Letter Q' as the Government's strategy raw cow to guarantee the quality of the Spanish milk.
The second block, which is dealt with in the afternoon of the 9th, will analyse organic milk production systems. The Professor of the Department of accounting from the University of Oviedo, José Antonio Pérez Méndez, will analyze the factors that determine the conversion of the traditional system of production to the ecological and Fermín Cilveti, managing director of Lácteos Belate of Navarra, will explain the operation of your integrated milk-producing company.
For the second consecutive Edition, the Hall dedicates a specific space for companies specializing in waste management and the generation of energy for farming, Ecofarm. The celebration of the II Congress Spanish of integrated management of livestock manure - contained in the programme the 9 and 10 June, and of the technical conference ' biogas in the livestock sector: where are we and where are we going?, the day 8organized by the Consortium for the management of agricultural fertilization (Gesfer), the technological Center rotation, the Catalan Energy Institute (Icaen), the waste Agency of Catalonia and the Department of agriculture, food and Rural Action of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
The current state of avian diseases focused presentations of the forty-seventh Scientific Symposium of poultry
Organized by the World Poultry Science Association (WPSA, 47th Symposium scientist of poultry, which is held on 9 and June 10, studied the current situation of various diseases that affect different types of farm birds and their subsequent economic effects. Under the heading 'Challenges of pathology avian current', the Symposium is held over two days in which rapporteurs national and international explain what state are various pathologies as 'salmonella gallinarum', 'zoonotic salmonella''Mycoplasma sinoviae' or the 'colibacillosis'.
On the morning of the 9th, the doctor Yosef Daniel Huberman, the National Institute of agricultural technology of Argentina, will address the problems created salmonella avian disease that causes economic important losses by causing a significant decrease in the release of eggs in domestic chickens and turkeys affected. The Uruguayan doctor Eduardo Loedel-Soca, working in laboratories Inchcolm Veterinary Services in Scotland, will explain the developed solutions for eradicating the infectious disease, zoonotic salmonella of birds that can be transmitted to humans. Finally, the Dr. Raúl Cerdá, Argentine company ECO Animal Health, will address how 'Mycoplasma sinoviae' has a great influence on the production and the State of health of the breeding stock and their progeny, as well as the laying henswhich causes significant economic losses in the sector.
The symposium follows the morning of the June 10, with a round table in which Elias Rodríguez Ferri, Carlos Boix, Ricardo Toran, Antonio Alegre and Pedro Gil discuss new diseases currently registered. The Spanish doctor Magdalena Gibert, Merial laboratories, will speak on the current situation of the colibacillosis avian and how it affects, in particular, to the breeding stock, chickens and laying hens in breeding farms.
