The schedule of Agrilevante 2015 meetings opens Thursday, October 15th, with a press conference attended by the Puglia Regional Commissioner for Agriculture, Leonardo Di Gioia, Fiera del Levante President Ugo Patroni Griffi and the FederUnacoma president, Massimo Goldoni, to be held in the Puglia Region Hall, Pav. 20, at 11:30 am. Also expected to turn up is Minister for Agricultural and Forestry Policy Maurizio Martina.

Also planned for the same inaugural day is a seminar on an issue crucial for the future of manufacturers of specialist tractors, Narrow Track Tractors – A Technical and Politial Issue, on updating off-road vehicles for compliance with the new European Union regulation on engine emissions. The session is scheduled for the afternoon of the 15th at 4:30 pm in the Biancospina Hall, Pavilion 10.

Further down the schedule is a conference set up by the Agrarian Faculties of the Universities of Bari and Foggia in collaboration with FederUnacoma and the Puglia Agro-Food Press Association entitled Vegetable-Fruit Supply Chain Machinery and Plant: Technological Innovation at the Service of Enterprise for technical-scientific comparisons among personnel in applied research in this mechanization sector, planned for Friday, October 16th, in the Biancospino Hall, Pav. 10 – 9:00 am.

Also planned for Friday are a number of meetings beginning with one entitled, National and Puglia Region Regulatory Panorama for the Control of Irrigation Machinery. This meeting is sponsored by the University of Bari, the Puglia Region and ENAMA, the National Agricultural Mechanization Agency, for studies and information for workers in the field of plant treatment and the framework of current regulations applied to control irrigation machinery at the European, national and especially the Puglia Regional levels, held in the Leccio Hall, Pav. 10 – 9:30 am. The next meeting coming up revolves around the Italian Biomass Association (ITABIA) for bringing together academic figures and private and public experts in the sector for analyses of the economic prospects for green energy, The Biomass Resource and Green Chemical Products, A Promising Production Chain for Mediterranean Agriculture, set for the M.i.A. Salon Workshop Hall, Pav. 20 – 10:30 am. Then comes a third meeting, backed by New Business Media, focused on critical features and opportunities in the winemaking supply chain, New Techniques, New Regulations, New Wine Varietals: Planting and Vineyards Changing Skins, in the Biancospino Hall – 2:30 pm. Another meeting scheduled for Friday the 16th is dedicated to the theme, All the Help for Regional Development Programs (RDPs) for Conservation Farming and Mechanization, organized by the publisher L'Informatore Agrario for the participation of Italian experts and academics in Alloro Hall, Pav. 10 – 10:00 am. The following day on the same site and at the same time, these experts and academic figures will take part in a conference entitled Profitability in Cereal Cultivations in South Italy Between New RDPs and Sustainability. Those in attendance will be given illustrations of the possibilities for linking innovation and savings and respect for the environment. Also to report is the presentation in the Puglia Region Hall, Pav. 20 at 9:30 am, of the Biodiver SO Project, an integrated project taking up biodiversity and Puglia Region crops managed by the Department of Agro, Environment and Territorial Sciences of the University of Bari. On the same day, Saturday the 17th, the National Union of Agricultural Machinery Dealers (UNACMA) are taking over the Mech@griJOBS area furnished in stand 50, Pav. 18, for a talk show with the participation of representatives of the major mechanical engineering-agricultural supply chains for dealing with the issues of the market, revisions and training. Also set for the 17th, in Biancospino Hall, Pav. 10 at 10:30 am, is a meeting on training organized by CNR, FederUnacoma, INAIL and the University of Bari entitled Professional Qualifications for the Use of Some Types of Agricultural Machinery, Make Necessity a Virtue.

Country Seminars sponsored by the Puglia Region, ICE, the Italian Foreign Trade Agency, and FederUnacoma are planned for the 15th, the afternoon of the 16th and the morning of the 17th in the Acero Hall, Pav. 20, for outlining for Italian business people in the agro-business sector the  commercial opportunities and partnerships offered in the Balkan countries and from Turkey to India. The afternoon sessions are scheduled to begin at 3:30 pm and the one in the morning at 10:00 am. Rounding out the information on offer for the Bari review to report is a series of seminars and workshops sponsored mainly by ITABIA and L'Informatore Agrario. In the M.i.A. Workshop Area in Pav. 20, the Italian Biomass Association is staging daily seminars from Thursday to Saturday on bio-energy issues from the point of view of Mediterranean agriculture. The Verona publishing house, in the Vita in Campagna, Life in the Countryside area, Pav. 20, is organizing 19 courses on vegetable crops and fruit orchards in plots built live in the trade fair setting with theoretical lessons and demonstrations. 

All these Agrilevante meetings are open to the general public with free entry. (The complete schedule is available on the Agrilevante website).