2019 EDITION
TROPICAL OVERVIEW
First session fully dedicated to the exotic sector in its entirety, with important data, market trends and special focuses on emerging products such as lime, papaya and passion fruit.
PINEAPPLE DAY
A unique appointment with the masters of pineapple covering all the aspects revolving around this particular fruit’s supply chain, step by step from production to distribution and technologies.
FRUIT RETAIL HANDLING WORKSHOP
This workshop is intended for shippers and wholesale, retail, and produce managers who are involved in handling and ripening tropical fruits. This 3-hour technical workshop has the objective to provide post-harvest biology and technology information to reduce avocado, lime, papaya, passion fruit, pineapple and mango losses at the receiving end and delivering ready-to-eat, delicious fruits to the costumer.
PROGRAM
The Tropical Fruit Congress is an all-round event dedicated to exotic fruits. 3 sessions have been scheduled. Here below the full detailed program:
| TROPICAL OVERVIEW: The roaring sector Coordinated by Prof. Roberto Della Casa – Agroter / Alma Mater University of Bologna |
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| 01 | 2:30pm |
Participants’ registration |
| 02 | 3:00pm | RENZO PIRACCINI – Macfrut Chairman Welcome Speech |
| 03 | 3:10pm |
CSO (Centro Servizi Ortofrutticoli) Monitoring Centre on Tropical Fruit Consumption |
| 04 | 3:30pm |
CALIMAN AGRICOLA Focus on Papaya |
| 05 | 3:50pm |
DON LIMON Focus on Lime |
| 06 | 4:10pm |
ODILO DUARTE Focus on Passion Fruit |
| 07 | 4:30pm | Coffee Break |
| 08 | 5:30pm | WORKSHOP: Status of the tropical sector Taking stock of the situation with international top buyers and retailers EUROGROUP BATTAGLIO FMI – FRUIT MARKET INTERNATIONAL COOP ITALIA |
| 09 | 6:00pm | Tropical Happy Hour |
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PINEAPPLE DAY: Sustainable farming beyond imagination |
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| 01 | 10:00am |
INTRODUCTION |
| 02 | 10:10am |
S&W FINE FOODS INTERNATIONAL |
| 03 | 10:25am |
UPALA |
| 04 | 10:40am |
DOLE |
| 05 | 10:55am | Q&A Session |
| 06 | 11:10am | Coffee Break |
| 07 | 11:30am |
WORKSHOP: IN SEARCH OF A NEW VALUE OF GROWTH – Comparing experiences with international top players KANTAR |
| 08 | 12:20pm |
WORKSHOP: FRESH CUT & SUPPLY CHAIN SOLUTIONS – Comparing experiences with international top players of the field NICE FRUIT |
| 09 | 1:30pm |
Tropical Cocktail |
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TECHNICAL WORKSHOP: Tropical Fruit Retail Handling |
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| 01 | 10:00am |
Participants’ Registration |
| 02 | 10:30am |
CARLOS CRISOSTO Welcome, Losses examples and Where is the information? |
| 03 | 10:45am |
CARLOS CRISOSTO Environmental conditions to protect the fruit |
| 04 | 11:00am |
JEFF BRECHT Temperature management in the cold chain: Protecting limes, papaya, pineapples and passion fruit |
| 05 | 11:30am |
DENNIS KIHLSTADIUS Ripening Avocados: The California Experience |
| 06 | 12:00pm |
JEFF BRECHT Ripening Mangos |
| 07 | 12:20pm |
CARLOS CRISOSTO New Technologies Protecting Fruit and Supporting Ripening ZIEHL-ABEGG – Paz Garcia |
| 08 | 1:00pm |
Final Q&A and comments |
SPEAKERS
The program of speakers, workshops and discussions feature a special lineup of experts from around the globe.
It includes university teachers, researchers, CEOs and marketing managers of the most important exotic fruit organizations. Here’s the speakers:
SPONSORS
