On Tuesday 17th November HollandDoor organized on behalf of the Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy Group of Wageningen University the pre-conference tour of the 7th International Conference on Coexistence between Genetically Modified (GM) and non-GM based Agricultural Supply Chains. This year the biennial international event took place in Amsterdam. The excursion program provides an excellent opportunity for the conference participants (many of whom are scientists and policy makers) to get information directly from the 'working floor'.  

Many of the agricultural supply chains concerns raw materials for feedstuff. Therefore the excursion program focused on that theme. In the morning the IGMA terminal in the Amsterdam harbor was visited. Here transshipment from sea ships to river ships and storage takes place of raw materials for Cefetra and Cargill. The participants received an extensive and expert explanation by Cefetra about of all the trade and logistic activities regarding GMO and non-GMO raw materials. Fitted with helmets and swimming vests the participants could take a closer look aboard of a harbor vessel of the unloading of a sea ship. With cranes with a maximum capacity of 40 tons at a time the unloading still takes up 3 days of work.

  

After this very informative visit the program went on after lunch with two presentations in the Harry Mulisch room of the Amsterdam Public Library which is also in the vicinity of the harbor. The presentations of RIKILT Wageningen UR and the Ministry of Economic Affairs enlightened the enforcement of GMO non-GMO segregation in the Netherlands. As well as discussing the Dutch position regarding the opt-out possibility for EU countries for GMO products, respectively.

 

After a lively discussion with the speakers it was time for a short walk to the VIP Water Taxi which brought the group, after a touristic trip through the Amsterdam canals, back to the conference hotel. And so HollandDoor succeeded in organizing an informative and full day program in an area of a few square kilometer.

 

Are you also planning a conference including an excursion program? Then you would be well advised to ask HollandDoor for a skilled organization of that program.

 

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In May 2015, HollandDoor organized on request of the Center for High-Tech Application and Development in Agriculture (HTES) in Hanoi, Vietnam, a tailor-made training on Export promotion for Vietnamese fruit and vegetables exporters. In this training focus was laid on market access requirements and quality assurance. Read more...

 

Because of this succesfull training, HTES requested HollandDoor to organize another tailor-made training in December. The training objective this time was to expose a group of Vietnamese trainees to the Dutch fruit and vegetable trade sector in order to learn about trends and developments related to packaging materials and methods. The trainees came all from the surrounding area of Thai Binh city, about 100 km south-east of Hanoi and were connected to the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance - Thai Binh.

 

The 2,5 day tailor-made training program contained lectures which were illustrated with field visits. The trainees were inspired and triggered to define possibilities for implementations in the Vietnamese agro sector to optimize the current fresh supply chains and to look for improved marketing performance.

 

Vietnam is also working on labor integration of mentally or physically disabled people in the Vietnamese agro sector. During the training some field visits were organized to illustrate how this is organized in The Netherlands.

  

The fruit and vegetables production and trade sector in Vietnam shows a fast development and has ample opportunities for international trade. But at the same time the sector lacks knowledge, expertise and infrastructure. HTES was established in
2005 to spearhead the adoption of advanced technology and management systems in agriculture, especially horticulture. The initiation of these courses is one of the initiatives of this organisation. 

 

The participants of the course were very happy with the given exposure and knowledge during this HollandDoor training and went home with lots of new plans.

 

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HollandDoor offered a successful one week study tour in the Netherlands with visits of sector and farmer organisations for the Georgian Farmers Association. This study visit in July 2015 is the first stage of a tailor made training with training weeks in Georgia late 2015 and early 2016 on the themes 'advocacy' and 'collective marketing'. The visit was meant to expose the participants to various business support organisations and farmer initiatives in the Netherlands with a mandate and scope similar to the Georgian Farmers Association, which is a young and fast growing umbrella organisation, aiming to speed up the development of agriculture in Georgia.

 

In the study tour visits were arranged to LTO, ZLTO, The Fresh Produce Centre, NCR, Agriterra, NAJK, CAH (university), CBI as well as several private cooperative based initiatives: Novifarm, Zentoo, Coöperatie DOOR, Quality Queen, Royal Fruitmasters, Oreginal and Distreco.

 

This tailor made training cycle is funded by EP-Nuffic, the expertise and service centre for internationalization in Dutch education. EP-Nuffic offers cross-border capacity development and knowledge exchange programs.
Apart from the core beneficiary (Georgian Farmers Association) two other Georgian organisations are involved and took part in the study tour: the Georgian-European Higher Education Institution and NGO GREEN (Georgian Rural Education and Entrepreneurship Network).

 

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HollandDoor offered a 3-days tailor-made course in the Netherlands in May 2015 for 6 Vietnamese producers and exporters of fresh fruits and vegetables on exporting to international markets, including the EU.
Half of the programme with the 13 Vietnamese participants was used for classroom meetings and workshops on trends and developments in the European market, with a special focus on market access requirements and quality management as well as business practices. In the other half of the programme several Dutch companies were visited with activities in the field of trade, logistics and quality monitoring.

The fruit and vegetables production and trade sector in Vietnam shows a fast development and has ample opportunities for international trade. But at the same time the sector lacks knowledge, expertise and infrastructure. Against that background the participants were very happy with the given exposure and knowledge during the HollandDoor course.

This course was initiated and organized by the Center for High-Tech Application and Development in Agriculture (HTES) in Hanoi, Vietnam, which was established in 2005 to spearhead the adoption of advanced technology and management systems in agriculture, especially horticulture.

 

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