Highlights

The Seventh International Conservation Agriculture Conference, Ukraine, 23-26 July 2009
The Seventh International No-Till Conservation Agriculture Conference in Ukraine: Sustainable Agriculture Based on Systems Approach, was held in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine from June 23-26, 2009. Like the previous six conferences since 2004, this event was organized by Agro-Soyuz Corporation (http://www.aginukraine.com/AgroSoyuz/agro02.htm), a private joint stock Ukrainian company formed in 1991 and serving as a model agricultural enterprise with some 19,000 hectares of Chernozem soils where state of the art technologies in crops, dairy, swine and grain processing and storage are introduced and exposed to ongoing research and evaluation by both staff and invited guests. The latter include farmers, research scientists, extension advisors, academics, policy-makers, government officials, politicians, and private sector stakeholders. The Conference was attended by a total number of some 125 participants from Ukraine, Russia, Moldova, Turkey, Kazakhstan, USA, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, New Zealand, China, ECAF (Germany) and FAO.

The report of the above Conference is attached herewith for your attention. The report has been kindly sent to us by Ms. Nila Martyniuk (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) of Agro-Soyuz Corporation to whom queries may be addressed.