On September 28,29,30, 2016, Georgian Academy of Agricultural Sciences hosted an International Scientific Conference on: Modern Technologies to Produce Ecologically Pure Products for Sustainable Development of Agriculture. (The Conference was financially supported by Georgian Shota Rustaveli National Foundation.)
The aim of the Conference was to discuss and evaluate the role of production of ecologically pure products and the utilization of resource-saving technologies which will be one of the bases of the further success of economy and further development of agriculture in Georgia. Also, the goal of the Conference is to provide opportunity for the young researchers to present the results of their work and plan cooperation with experienced scientists on prospected projects.
Together with Georgian researchers, the representatives from different countries, such as Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Poland, Russia (including South Ossetia), Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbek and Turkey took part in the Conference.
The presentations were made in three different field sections:
- 1.Modern technologies of production of ecologically pure plant products;
- 2.Modern technologies of production of ecologically pure livestock products;
- 3.
During the opening ceremony of the Conference, the president of the GAAS, Academician Guram Aleksidze welcomed the participants and guests of the Conference. Welcoming speeches were delivered by the Minister of Agriculture Levan Davitashvili, Deputy Minister Iuri Nozadze, Deputy of the Minister of Education and Science Tamaz Marsagishvili, the Deputy of General Director of Shota Rustaveli National Scientific Foundation Tinatin Bochorishvili, Academic Board Secretary of Georgian Technical University Giorgi Surguladze. The representatives of foreign delegations thanked to the host organization and wished to the participants fruitful work in the framework of the Conference.
Conference program and collection of scientific articles, full texts ( Total number of articles – 176. out of which 47 belong to foreign and 129 to Georgian researchers) were published and distributed among the participants. Active part in the work of the Conference also took master and doctorate program students from different institutions.
The opening of the Conference was also accompanied by Exhibition - fair of ecologically pure products; The representatives of agrarian scientific-research centers, firms and small businesses took part who presented their product, namely honey, cheese, fruit and vegetables, wine and non-alcoholic beverages, also tinned fruit and vegetables, dry and frozen fruit.
Children with disabilities (the head Maia Asakashvili) also presented different souvenirs produced by the members of Association of Children with Disabilities.
The hosts of the Conference offered interesting and informative excursions to the participants. They visited Georgian Ethnographic Museum, Experimental base in a village of Jighaura of the Agricultural Research Center, also spend a wonderful time in Kakheti, Wine Cellar of Sulkhan Gulashvili.
On the third day, a closing ceremony was held and the Conference adopted “Declaration -2016”. All participants got the Certificates of the Conference.
In the result of the problems discussed at the Conference, awareness regarding the significance of production of eco-products will be raised, also young farmers who have just started bio farms will be more motivated to maximize their production and compete with the product introduced from other countries.
The Conference will hopefully assist to the government to work out a special program which will promote eco production in the country. It will provide additional motivation for farmers to save bio-chemistry of soil and and produce organic products. We believe that bio-production could become a market niche for Georgian farmers on the world economic market.