Day One
08:30 Registration and Morning Coffee
08:50 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
09:00 The relevance of worldwide growth in agricultural production – Outlining the current scenario and forecasts for the next 15 years and assessing the short term impact on crop production in Brazil
• Identifying international trends
• Examining the supply chain: world population vs. food production
• Analysing the prospects in terms of costs
• Assessing the main challenges and national harvest forecasts for 2011 and 2012
Elder Muteia, Brazil Representative, Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations
10:15 Morning Refreshments and Networking
10:40 Examining crop production challenges in Latin America - Bright ideas and efficient projects but low success rates. Understanding how to implement an effective operational vision to solve key issues in the sector
• Solving distribution bottlenecks
• Understanding the implications of a high concentration of production sites
• Identifying the government’s positioning
• Recovering competiveness during the registration process
• Rescuing traditional sales by fighting smuggling
Tiago Lima, Director, ANTAQ
Olivier Girard, Director, Macrologística
11:30 The International perspective – Understanding how the biggest grain importers perceive the Brazilian crop production market and what internal and external investments they intend to make
13:00 Lunch and Networking
14:00 Futures Exchange – Examining the current commodities market and leveraging dollar devaluation trends, the barter system and tariff and non-tariff barriers to ensure effective business operations
• Assessing the main impact of dollar devaluation on the commodities market
• Establishing how to benefit from the barter system
• Determining how to efficiently handle tariff and non-tariff barriers
14:50 Foreign Trade – Understanding how to make the most of new opportunities in the international market and benefit from the effective implementation of international conventions such as Rotterdam, Stockholm and Basel
• Establishing how to avoid bureaucratic hassles
• Determining how to avoid tariff costs
• Identifying less explored possible business partnerships
15:30 Afternoon Refreshments and Networking
16:00 Creating financial, strategic and marketing advantages through innovative products – an overview of international tendencies in formulation and mixing
• Examining green formulations and the effects on the environment
• Identifying strategies used to enable the diversification of formulations
• Assessing current and future market demand
• Analysing trends in formulations
Marcos Oliveira, R&D/Innovation Manager, Akzo Nobel
16:45 Financing and management of rural credit – Examining the strategies that players in the market are using to overcome financial difficulties and gain access to funds – what are the long term impacts caused by the changes in debt taxation?
17:30 Chairman’s Closing Remarks
Day Two
08:30 Registration and Morning Coffee
08:50 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
09:00 Understanding the expectations of the main regulatory agencies in terms of investment and agricultural growth in Brazil - Insights into the regulation of agrotoxics and the adequacy of legislation of new technologies in fertilizer and agrotoxic production
• Establishing how to adapt to new legislation for new technologies
• Gauging the main agencies’ perspectives and positioning
• Indentifying tendencies in agrotoxic regulation
José Agenor, Director, ANVISA
Luís Rangel, General Coordinator for Agrotoxic Registration, MAPA
Eduardo Daher, Executive Director, ANDEF
10:40 Morning Refreshments and Networking
11:10 Re-using raw materials and maximising revenue with green technology
• Understanding the advantages of using bio kerosene in association with Sugar Mills
• Examining different green technologies and the associated business opportunities
Eduardo Leão de Sousa, Director, ÚNICA
12:00 Lunch and Networking
| | Track A – Agrochemicals and Pesticides | Track B - Fertilizers |
| 13.00 | Determining how to speed up the registration process and adapt to the international market – the industry vision
• Examining international guidelines and methodologies
• Performing an environmental conduct assessment
• Examining import and export legislation
• Identifying current and future legislative changes
• Assessing the impact of process change on the international market
Helena Tundisi, Head R&D, Bayer CropScience
| Establishing the role of fertilizers in world food production
• Assessing the viability of alternative methods of increasing food production
• Overcoming the challenges associated with leveraging fertilizers to ensure sustainable food production
• Outlining the global scenario in terms of food production and consumption
Alfredo Scheid Lopes, PhD., Professor Emeritus, UFLA
Antonio de Padua Cruz, Technical Manager – Ammonium Sulphate, Honeywell Resins & Chemicals
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| 13.50 | Assessing the use of biotechnology when creating new products
• Examining the main tendencies and trends in exports of GM products
• Identifying new strategies that can be used to ensure the success of biotechnology
| Panel Discussion: Examining the use of biotechnology to innovate product development, nutrient sources and technologies
• Identifying the benefits of nitrogen non-dependent inoculants for sugar cane and corn
• Understanding how the fertilizer industry is increasing productivity by using formerly discarded nutrients
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| 14.20 | | Understanding the influence of sustainable practices and environmental pressures on the fertilizer industry and the role of carbon credit in food exports and the increased use of biomass in the production process
• Examining several environmental projects
• Identifying what the fertilizer industry is doing to promote sustainability
• Assessing sustainability indicators
• Leveraging corporate governance projects
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| 15.00 | Honeybees are responsible for around 70% of agricultural production, revenue of around $14 billion in the US alone and $9.3 billion for eight of the main Brazilian agriculture products. Is the decrease in bees one of the most serious problems for agricultural ecosystems? What are the main environmental challenges of today? | Raw materials in fertilizers – key trends and challenges in terms of the prices and consumables in the sector |
| 15.40 | Afternoon Refreshments and Networking | Afternoon Refreshments and Networking |
| 15.55 | Panel Discussion: Weighing up the advantages and disadvantages of industry specialised products versus generic products
• Do generic Products contribute to the price fall in agrochemicals and pesticides?
• Is there a market for all generic newcomers?
Tulio de Oliveira, Executive Director, AENDA
| Panel Discussion: Access to raw material in the fertilizer industry – Understanding how Vale intends to operate in the market following a number of relevant company acquisitions in the field of fertilizers
• What are the benefits to the rural producer?
• Identifying and overcoming the impacts on the market of independent raw material projects
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17:30 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Conference
