The Petrolina (PE) and Juazeiro (BA) hub will host the XXVI Brazilian Fruit Growing Congress from September 30th to October 04th, organized by Embrapa Semiárido and UNIVASF. With an extensive program of lectures, debates and presentations of scientific works, the event should bring together an audience as diverse as fruit production in the country.
According to the organizers, there will be around 1.000 participants (researchers, professors, extension workers, undergraduate and postgraduate students, exporters, fruit producers, technicians from public and private companies).
A large part of these professionals will come from the 30 fruit production centers already consolidated throughout the national territory and which, together, total more than two million and five hundred thousand hectares.
The theme chosen as the central theme of the Congress, Precision Fruit Farming: Challenges and Opportunities, “signals the discussion about innovations that prepare the sector's production chains to expand their business in the face of the growing trend in fruit trade and consumption in domestic and international markets. external”, guarantees Embrapa Semiárido researcher, Paulo Roberto Coelho Lopes, president of the Organizing Committee.
“We are preparing an event with many spaces for the integrated exhibition of knowledge generated by the scientific community and by entrepreneurs and technicians from the private sector. Our objective is to help put Brazilian producers in a position to expand their business with importers from the European Union, the United States and Middle Eastern countries, and advance to reach Asian countries, such as China”, guarantees the researcher.
For him, the impacts of fruit growing are “very evident” in important segments of the economy such as the job market – the activity employs around 5 million people (16% of agribusiness jobs) – and in regional development: the volume of exports of mango and grapes grown in the Petrolina and Juazeiro Hub generates resources in excess of R$ 1 billion and increases a business and service chain that integrates the region in a competitive way in important commercial circuits in Brazil and abroad.
The Congress is organized by the Brazilian Fruit Culture Society (SBF) and is part of one of the institutional strategies for defending and supporting the development of national fruit growing that led to its founding in 1970. From the first edition in 1991, in the city of Campinas ( SP), the event has made important contributions to the technological renewal of this segment of the country's agriculture.
For this 26th edition, which will take place in the Petrolina (PE) and Juazeiro (BA) hub, Embrapa Semiárido researcher, Maria Auxiliadora Coelho de Lima, explains that the Congress will emphasize the characteristic of being “an opportunity to update information and of knowledge by bringing together professionals who work and contribute to improving the technological standard of fruit growing in Brazil”.
The participation of researchers from the United States, Spain, Chile, Belgium and South Africa in some of the round tables, conferences, short courses and technical visits that make up the technical program “makes the congress an opportune moment for them to get to know agriculture better Brazilian society and cooperate in identifying research needs and technological improvement in fruit production chains”, argues Maria Auxiliadora, who is one of the coordinators of the Scientific Technical Committee.
Registration for the XXVI Congress is open and continues until today. SBF and Brazilian Horticulture Association (ABH) members will be entitled to a discount. But to do this, they will have to pay the entities' annual fees by 10/08/2019. The organizers also inform that student registrations will only be validated after sending proof of connection with the educational institution.
Detailed information can be accessed on the event website: www.fruticultura2019.com.br
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