Conference success shows industry support
This year’s MEA Dealer Conference was hailed a real success after over 80 dealers, technicians, processers and parlour manufacturers attended to discuss the Parlour Safe scheme and learn more about plans for 2014. Hosted at Warwick Racecourse early in June, the Conference’s content was focused firmly on ‘what’s in it for me?’ and saw keynote […]
The 10th Annual International Sugar Conference
The Official Sugar Conference returns to Dubai this year, taking place at The Grand Hyatt Hotel from the 8th – 11th February 2014. Over 45 countries will be present at the 10th Anniversary Sugar Conference and as the tradition continues, Al Khaleej Sugar will be hosting the event alongside Kingman-Platts. It is expected that around […]
Ministers call for steps to promote partnership and agricultural innovation in Africa
The Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture (GFIA) closed with a Ministerial Discussion that points the way forward for agricultural innovation and poverty reduction in Africa. GFIA’s Closing Ceremony, entitled ‘The Africa Innovation Initiative,’ was chaired by HE Dr Rashid Ahmed Bin Fahad, UAE Minister of Environment and Water and featured African Ministers from Ghana […]
Over $4 billion of development funding represented at GFIA 2014
The Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture has confirmed the participation of over 20 major NGOs in the event, to be held in Abu Dhabi from 3-5 February. The latest announcement underlines GFIA’s status as a truly global event bringing together the best ideas, top international experts and key policy-makers from the public, private and […]
Abu Dhabi to host world experts at ‘game changing’ agricultural forum
The Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture (GFIA), the world’s largest showcase of game-changing innovations in sustainable agriculture, is to be held in Abu Dhabi from February 3-5 2014, under the theme ‘Driving Innovation for an Agricultural Revolution.’ The world will have to feed 9 billion people by 2050. To do so will require a […]
British Cattle Conference 2014
The packed programme for the two-and-a-half day event begins with a beef workshop on Monday afternoon. Tuesday’s programme focuses on beef, with a parallel dairy workshop held in the afternoon, while Wednesday is ‘dairy day.’ Throughout the conference, which is focused on the subject of ‘Breeding Healthy Food in a Hungry World,’ leaders in the […]
Cuts to red tape to save farmers and taxpayers £70M
Cuts to burdensome red tape will make it easier for farming businesses to flourish and improve our ability to prevent and control the spread of diseases such as bovine TB. Speaking at the Oxford Farming Conference, Mr Paterson said: “Our farming industry is a cornerstone of our economy but for too long farmers have had […]
Government must make more of anaerobic digestion
Speaking ahead of the ADBA National Conference [3 Dec] where he will be chairing a session, Tony Juniper*, said: “A range of cutting edge technologies offer the opportunity to achieve economic and job creation benefits while at the same time meeting environmental goals. Government really needs to wake up to this basic fact and to […]
Farmers urged to embrace technology and research for a brighter future
Opening the conference FUW president Emyr Jones said: “Significant inroads have been made in ‘producing more from less’ but margins remain tight and we farmers must continue to work towards maximising outputs whilst controlling production costs. “Technological advances in agriculture are not the result of adopting a one-tool technique but, instead, represent numerous different types […]
