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KAVB Symposium October 11th 13th, 2010: Plant names, global challenges

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:08:00 +0100

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary the KAVB board decided to organise an international symposium with the theme: Plant names, global challenges.

The symposium includes one day for bulb company visits, one day with presentations of invited speakers and one day visit to Hortifair.
The position and relations of private registration systems, plant breeders rights registration and trade marks will be enlightened by invited expert speakers form i.e. the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality; UPOV; CPVO; the Dutch Board for Plant Varieties and the Benelux Office for Intellectual Property. The different intellectual property systems i.e. plant breeders rights and patent rights also will be included in the presentations and discussions.

Who should attend?
Plant breeders, growers, wholesalers, their organisations, scientist and employees of registration authorities are kindly invited to participate in this symposium.

Continue reading and download program and registration form: Program and registration form

Communities in Bloom International Challenge 2011

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:08:00 +0100

Communities in Bloom organizes the International Challenge 2011.

The international Challenge consists of communities receiving information and being evaluated by an international jury on the accomplishments of their entire community (municipal, private, corporate and institutional sectors, citizens) on eight key criteria: tidiness, environmental awareness, community involvement, natural and cultural heritage conservation, urban forestry, landscaped areas, floral displays, and turf & groundcovers. The evaluation takes place in July and August.

The 2011 Symposium and Awards Ceremonies will be held from October 26th to October 29th in Quebec City, Quebec Canada, hosted by the National Battlefields Commission.

For more information and programme of the 2011 Challenge, see www.communitiesinbloom.ca.

Note: The 2010 Symposium on Parks and Grounds & Award Ceremonies hosted by Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia Canada will be held from October 27th to October 30th 2010.

Impressive site inspection Tangshan, China.

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:07:00 +0100

The city of Tangshan, China applied to hold an A2/B1 international horticultural exhibition in 2016. In 1976 a very heavy earthquake destroyed a great part of the city with 240,000 casualties and many thousands injured. During the rebuild of the city a great park (South Lake) was established and industrial waste areas were cleaned. This created an eco-city of high environmental and nature standards with 7,3 million residents. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the earthquake the exhibition will be organised with the theme Phoenix nirvana which symbolizes the resurrection from the asses after the earthquake.

To view and inspect the exhibition site and to discuss the progress the city of Tangshan invited an AIPH team. Mr. Doeke Faber (AIPH), Mr. Shinya Wada (AIPH), Mr. Wang Dianfu (CFA), Mrs. Kong Haiyan (CFA), Mr. Zhang Yin Chao (CFA) and Mr. Sjaak Langeslag (AIPH) were kindly received by Mr. Chen Guoying, Mayor of Tangshan and Mr. Huang Huikang, Vice Mayor. Several other representatives of Tangshan municipal government and the organising committee attended and contributed to the meetings. Deputy Director Mr. Ge Huibo represented the Forestry Bureau of Hebei Province.

After the site visit and presentations regarding the lay out and many relevant aspects of the exhibition, several questions were asked by the inspection team members and suggestions were given. These regarded aspects like infrastructure, opening hours, sewage system, shops and other visitor facilities, internal transportation for visitors in relation to the size (over 500 ha of which 220 ha of water), phytosanitary import regulations, after-use of the exhibition site, soil characteristics, symposia and meetings for producers, involvement of youngsters and information about plant use for consumers.

Looking at the given answers and commitments, Mr. Faber concluded that Tangshan city is well under way with ecology, green living environment and sustainable use of water and energy and can be seen as an example to the world. The United Nations is of the same opinion as they granted Tangshan the Dubai International Award for the Best Practices to Improve Living Conditions. Also taking into account the ambition to increase ornamentals production from 1,400 hectares in 2010 to 16,000 hectares in the near future, Tangshan is an excellent location to hold an international horticultural exposition. It is shown that the staff that is involved in the exhibition activities is creative, enthusiastic and dedicated. The general impression and outline of the 2016 exhibition complies with the criteria and ideas of AIPH. Therefore the advice to the Council of AIPH will be positive with two remaining points of attention. The first is the necessity of an internal transportation system for visitors and the second is that this inspection visit is rather early to judge several topics and aspects of the exhibition in their final lay out. A second visit some years from now may be advisable.

For more pictures see photogallery (members only).

Invitation to Attend the Asia Pacific Symposium on Postharvest Research Education and Extension

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:06:00 +0100

The organizing committee of The International Conference on the Asia Pacific Symposium on Postharvest Research Education and Extension (APS2010) to be held in Thailand during 2-4 August 2010, would like to invite you to submit an abstract of a paper or poster for presentation at the conference.
This event is organized by King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) and is supported by The International Society of Horticultural Science (ISHS).

The goal of APS2010 is to highlight the most recent and exciting developments and innovations in the area with an emphasis on:

all aspects of postharvest research;
curriculum and training program development;
modes of delivery of postharvest education;
graduate research systems;
perspectives and personalities in postharvest education and research;
role of vernacular languages in training of practitioners in SMEs;
role of industry in training;
postharvest education material development including computer assisted learning;
integration of research outcomes in training and extension programs;
international networks of training organizations and multilingual training;
marketing of postharvest education and training programs.

Authors of all accepted oral and poster presentation will be given the opportunity to publish their papers subject to the rules for publication in Acta Horticulturae proceedings. Please note that Acta Horticulturae will publish the papers prior to the conference.

Abstracts must be received by 30 June 2010. Abstracts should send directly to the symposium secretariat e-mail address aps@kmutt.ac.th.

More information:
Dr. Sirichai Kanlayanarat, Convener Head, Division of Postharvest Technology, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Thungkru, Bangkok 10140, Thailand
Phone: 662-470-7720, Fax: 662-452-3750
E-mail : sirichai.kan@kmutt.ac.th

Antalya Flower Festival successful

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:06:00 +0100

Antalya Flower Festival was celebrated on 29th of June for the 6th time. About 1,5 million flowers were used for the festival in which 300.000 flowers were distributed to people and thus Antalya was like a rainbow adorned with flowery colors. Convoy of about 20 specially flower designed cars had impressed both the inhabitants and the tourists of the city for all the day. Several shows had been performed like concerts, dance shows, flower design competitions and children activities. And the theme of this years festival was Expo 2016 Antalya the world horticultural Expo that we are planning to hold in Antalya. The festival was like a magical intersection of flowers and children.

Site Inspection Floriade 2012

Tue, 25 May 2010 00:05:00 +0100

The Floriade 2012 organization invited an AIPH team for the site inspection on May 20th, 2010. AIPH president Mr. Doeke Faber, Vice- chairman of the Marketing Committee Mr. Kevin Chung and Secretary General Mr. Sjaak Langeslag were welcomed by Mr. Paul Beck, CEO of the Floriade 2012, Mr. Bert Stek, Financial Director and Mr. Sven Stimac, Project Director.

In a very informative presentation the several aspects of Floriade 2012, i.e. design, themes, potential numbers of visitors in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium, accommodation, events, participants, after use of the park, and (commercial) partners were highlighted. The AIPH team had the opportunity to discuss these topics and to ask several questions.

The overall theme is Be part of the theatre in nature, get closer to the quality of life. The site, 66 hectares in total, consists of five thematic landscape areas: Relax & Heal; Green Engine; Education & Innovation; Environment; World Show Stage. Companies and countries can indicate in which theme part of the exhibition they want to participate.

During the tour over the park, the AIPH team was impressed by the progress that was seen and by the very surprising elements in the landscape design. The visitors in 2012 certainly will be anxious to discover every next element of the exhibition. As Mr. Beck stated: Floriade 2012 is not selling entrance tickets, but offering a day of experience&.

The AIPH team concluded they would positively advice AIPH Council about this Floriade site inspection and stimulate AIPH members to participate in this World Horticultural Exhibition.

For an impression and for more information, please visit www.Floriade.nl.

Seminar Enforcement of Plant variety rights, Athens April 2010

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:04:00 +0100

On behalf of AIPH Mrs. Mia Buma gave a presentation about the AIPH point of view on Plant Breeders Right (PBR) in the seminar 'Enforcement of plant variety rights' which was held in Athens Greece on April 15th 2010.
See also www.cpvo.europa.eu.

Green Wave campaign 2010

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:04:00 +0100

The Green Wave is a global biodiversity campaign to educate children and youth about biodiversity. It leads up to the International Year of Biodiversity in 2010. Each year, The Green Wave will contribute to worldwide celebrations of the International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB). It also supports other national, international and global tree planting initiatives such as the UNEP-led Billion Tree Campaign.
For the world wide tree planting visit http://greenwave.cbd.int/en/map_2010

Very successful AIPH Spring Meeting in Chiang Mai, Thailand

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:04:00 +0100

AIPH was invited by the Department of Agriculture and the Horticultural Science Society of Thailand to hold its Spring Meeting in Chiang Mai, Thailand from 24 28 March, 2010. In his opening speech AIPH President Mr. Doeke Faber welcomed representatives from 10 AIPH member organisations and many representatives from several organisations in Thailand. He expressed the appreciation for the kind invitation and underlined the importance of meeting colleagues on a regular basis. Special attention was given to the fact that in Ratchaphruek in 2011/2012 a new horticultural exhibition will be organized on a location that was used before (in 2006/2007). This is the first time in the AIPH history such a situation occurs. Welcome remarks were given by the Vice Govenor of Chiang Mai Province, Mr. Pairoj Saenpoowong, the President of HSST, Mr.Ananta Dalodom, and by the Director General of the Department of Agriculture, Mr. Somchai Charnnarongkul.

In the committee meetings many topics were discussed and preparations were made for the annual congress in October 2010 in South Korea. The committee Science and Education met for the first time and members are invited to give information from their home countries about universities, schools and research institutes. The committee Green City was chaired by Mrs. Karen Tambayong Sjarief who was nominated chair of this committee last year in Zaragoza. In the Marketing committee many progress reports on the coming Exhibitions were presented. It is always impressive to see the new garden and pavilion designs and themes that will be presented to the visitors. Furthermore several very interesting presentations were given by Thai experts. Subjects were i.e. an overview of horticultural production; horticultural education in Thailand; orchid marketing in Thailand and Green City developments in Thailand.

After two days of meetings, there were professional visits to the Royal Flora Ratchaphruek, a flower market in Chiang Mai, an Orchid production farm and to the Inthanon Royal Agricultural Station. This station was established by the King of Thailand to support local farmers with production of vegetables and ornamentals by research and extension programmes. Delegates were impressed by the approach and high level of expertise available.

In his closing remarks Mr. Faber expressed the compliments of all participants for a very successful Spring Meeting which was perfectly organized and kindly hosted by very friendly people from Thailand.

Entente Florale Europe 2010

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:03:00 +0100

Since a lot of years AIPH is a member of Entente Florale Europe (International Association Europeenne pour le Fleurissement et le Paysage).

On the previous Entente Florale General Assembly meeting in Vienna in February 2010 serious, regular changes were arranged:

Prime President of our AEFP association is Mr. Herbert Titz, Chair of the Austrian Flower advertising association , Vienna.
Outgoing Vice President is Mr. Jaap Spros, PPH Netherlands, Veenendaal.
Incoming Vice President is Mr. Stojan Papotnik, Slovenia. Secretary General is Mr. Janos Prutkay, Ministery of Enviropment, Budapest.

Dr. Lutz Wetzlar has handed over the job as a Secretary General to Mr. Prutkay from February this year.

The 2010 Entente Florale competition will be managed as every year.
The itinerary 2010 will lead the international Jury to the Netherlands on July 21th to Helenaveen and on July 22nd to Vlaardingen.
A document with an overview over the participating towns and villages can be found at ' downloads' .

Below you find the annual account report, which may inform you about the correct use of your membership fee to be transferred annully to AEFP.

Invitation to the 2010 edition of the Communities in Bloom International Challange

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:02:00 +0100

Communities in Bloom (CiB), established in 1995 with the guidance of Entente Florale, Britain in Bloom, Tidy Towns of Ireland and Villes et village fleuris de France involves hundreds of minicipalities throughout Canada.

The international Challenge established with the objective of learning and sharing information on green spaces, is a competition between communities form different countries; municipalities from Great Britain, the United States of America, Ireland, Japan, France, Slovenia and the Czech Republic have participated in the program over the years.

The 2010 Symposium on Parks and Grounds & Awards Ceremonies, hosted by Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia will be held form October 27th to October 30th. All the international guests will have the opportunity to promote their community and country.

Website: www.communitiesinbloom.ca

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Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:02:00 +0100

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Through its efforts, Suncheon is generating and providing lots of green jobs for its citizens. The City Administration is also vigorously implementing green policies such as energy saving, non-pollutant transportation, recycling, to mention but a few.

Symposia January 2010 - April 2012

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:01:00 +0100

Download a list of interesting horticultural symposia. These symposia will be held in the period of January 2010 untill April 2012.

Australia: Courses and Careers in Horticulture

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:01:00 +0100

Horticulture Careers: Your Guide to Courses in Australia 2010 is available from: http://horticulture.realviewtechnologies.com/?cdn=0&xml=Courses_and_Careers_in_Horticulture

This guide is primarily addressed at school leavers and their advisors, but it is of vital importance to the industry, which regularly raises concerns about filling skills gaps. There is a commentary with some terrific stories about the opportunities in the industry for young people, as well as a 28 page course directory.

The guide is trying to unravel the puzzle of how horticulture studies are provided at university these days. It is not an easy puzzle to solve even if you know the industry well so the authors felt they really should make it clearer for the young people we are trying to attract!

For more details contact Gerard McEvilly, Horticulture Supply Chain Services, Planning, Strategy, Research, Programs, Review
29 Bingara Road Beecroft NSW 2119 Australia
Phone +61 2 9876 1627; Fax +61 409 047 117
gmcevilly@gmail.com

AIPH | Nieuws

KAVB Symposium October 11th  13th, 2010: Plant names, global challenges

Communities in Bloom International Challenge 2011

Impressive site inspection Tangshan, China.

Invitation to Attend the Asia Pacific Symposium on Postharvest Research Education and Extension

Antalya Flower Festival successful

Site Inspection Floriade 2012

Seminar Enforcement of Plant variety rights, Athens April 2010

Green Wave campaign 2010

Very successful AIPH Spring Meeting in Chiang Mai, Thailand

Entente Florale Europe 2010

Invitation to the 2010 edition of the Communities in Bloom International Challange

Suncheon City, prize awarded from the South Korean President �� ����� �

Symposia January 2010 - April 2012

Australia: Courses and Careers in Horticulture

KAVB Symposium October 11th 13th, 2010: Plant names, global challenges

Suncheon City, prize awarded from the South Korean President ��