26 January, Wednesday - delegates’ arrival and accommodation
18.00 – 20.00 PRELIMINARY REGISTRATION — COCKTAIL RECEPTION
27 January, Thursday – first conference day
Session-discussion. THE AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE EEBB REGION:
LARGE PRODUCERS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC, SLOVAKIA, AUSTRIA, HUNGARY, SLOVENIA AND THEIR FERTILIZER REQUIREMENTS
• Changes in requirements depending on cultivated crop in recent years
• Consumers’ needs: quality, specifications and new fertilizer grades
• Preferable supply sources
Session-discussion. FERTILIZER N, P, K SUPPLY IN EEBB: CHANGES IN PRODUCTION, COMMODITY FLOWS INTO AND INSIDE THE REGION
• The current situation and outlook for regional production
• Supply and raw material sources
• Structural shifts in the supplier’s market and the consequent changes in import flows in recent years
• New distribution networks
Session-discussion. FERTILIZER CONSUMPTION POTENTIAL IN THE REGION
• The market structure by fertilizer type
• The climate change and its influence on agriculture: decreasing fertilizer consumption in the EEBB region because of drought, growing demand for liquid fertilizers
• The market development scenarios following the European Commission’s efforts to make farmers use 20% less fertilizer
NEGOTIATIONS
DINNER
28 January, Friday – second conference day
Session-discussion. SPECIALTY FERTILIZER GRADES AND THE MARKET DEVELOPMENT IN RECENT YEARS
• Analogues of staple fertilizer grades traded in the region: prospects for ASN
and such S-containing fertilizers as CAN+S, UAN+S
• Stabilised nitrogen: what is new since last year
• Water-soluble fertilizers and their market share in the region
Session-discussion. LOGISTICS: MAJOR SEA AND RIVER DISTRIBUTION HUBS, TRUCK SHIPPING IN EEBB
• The Northern (the Baltic Sea) and the Southern (the Mediterranean and the Black Sea) fertilizer flows into the region: supply changes in recent years
• The key Danube fertilizer port terminals, river navigation problems and probable solutions to them
• Trucks as preferred means of transport, challenges, opportunities and the COVID-19 fallout
• A supplier’s view on regional transport
NEGOTIATIONS
EXCURSION