The 2nd Ukrainian Grain Congress - 2011 October 17-18, 2011, Kiev

• About the congress
• Programm
• Conditions for participation
• Conditions for accommodation
• List of participants

About the congress

The Ukrainian Grain Association and the information-analytical agency APK-Inform announce the holding of the 2nd Ukrainian Grain Congress in October 17-18, 2011 in Kiev.

The leading experts of the grain market of Ukraine, USA, EU, Brazil, representatives of the Parliamentary Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Agrarian Policy and Land Relations, Presidential Administration of Ukraine, Ministry of Agricultural Policy and Food of Ukraine, Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine, Grain and Feed Trade Association (GAFTA), International Grains Council (IGC), European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation, and other well-known Ukrainian and international organizations will be participants and speakers at the Ukrainian Grain Congress.

Major topics of the Ukrainian Grain Congress:

• Key aspects of the world and the Black Sea grain market development

• Exchange trade of grain: a global perspective in Ukraine

• The Brazilian system of the grain production financing

• What will bring 2012 to the Ukrainian land market?

• EBRD Round table "Mechanisms for the effective interaction between government and private business in the grain market"

Participation in the Congress as Speakers was confirmed by:

	Nikolay Prisyazhnyuk, Minister of Agricultural policy of Ukraine
	Aleksey Gavrilov, President of Grain and Feed Trade Association (GAFTA)
	Gilles Mettetal, Director for Agribusiness of EBRD
	Leonid Kozachenko, President of Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation
	Vladimir Klimenko, President of Ukrainian Grain Association
	Peter Bryde, EBRD's Deputy Director for Agribusiness
	Jeffry Kuijpers, CME Group
	Marcelo Fernandes Guimaraes, Economic Analysis Department Coordinator, Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Brazil
	Andrei Sizov, Director of the Analytical Center SovEcon
	Tamara Sulukhia, Coordinator of Sustainable Development in Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova, the World Bank
	Anastasia Ivasenko, Analyst of APK-Inform Agency
	Viktor Andrievskiy, Director of the Institute for Agrarian Markets Development
	Val Sigaev, Director of Eastern European Division of PFGBEST
	Sergey Tereschyuk, Deputy Chairman of the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on the Issues of Agrarian Policy and Land Relations
	Elena Voloshina, Head of IFC office in Ukraine
	Eugenia Serova, Senior Advisor of FAO International Investment Center

As well as:

• Randall J. Hager, Agricultural Attache of U.S. Embassy in Ukraine;

• Alexandre Kurosaki, Expert of the commodities market and risk mitigation in the agricultural sector of Brazil, BASF;

Congress languages: Ukrainian, Russian, English (simultaneous translation)

We invite the representatives of the leading international and Ukrainian companies of the grain market, as well as the representatives of the governmental and non-governmental institutions, consulting agencies, media and academic institutions to take part in the 2nd Ukrainian Grain Congress. Expected number of participants — 250 delegates.