International Conference “Plant health – challenges for the future”

Riga, Latvia, 02/10/2020 02/10/2020
Participants: State institutions, non-governmental organizations (NGO), universities, scientific institutes, business representatives of agriculture (growers, carriers, distributors), gardening,  forestry industries, foreign guest lectors.
Content of the conference/thematic blocks:
I. Global (world) in the context of the EU and LV
II. Regional (sectoral):
• Plant protection
• Agriculture
• Forestry / wood industry
III. The vision of the future:
• Seed
• Integrated plant protection
• Phytosanitary measures
 
Traveling exhibition will be unveiled during the conference.
The exhibition has three parts:
1. 22 photographs of pests
2. Facts about International Year of Plant Health and information on the most widespread plant quarantine diseases in the World and in Latvia.
3. boxes with pests and herbarium of plant diseases with descriptions.
The exhibition will be shown for at a public location in each big Latvian citys.