Farmers are facing the imperative
need to produce in order to satisfy the food outlets but also the increasing
demand of the biofuels and non-food markets while preserving the environment.
The aim of Les Culturales®, a major French agricultural event, is to allow
farmers to better know the needs of the different markets, including non-food
industry, and to make theirs all the innovations to satisfy these demands while
remaining competitive.
Les Culturales® 2007 are organized by ARVALIS – Institut du végétal
with the collaboration of the CETIOM (Technical Center for Oilseed Crops), the
FNAMS (Seed Producers’ Association), the ITB (sugarbeet technical institute)
and the UNIP (Interprofessional Organisation of Protein Crops).
The answers you are looking for, for more day-to-day efficiency
Thanks to synthetic and straight operational presentations, Les Culturales® 2007
is dedicated to the farmers who seek answers to adapt their farm to the
challenges coming.
- Why producing and for whom ?
- How to manage my crops according to the potential of my fields ?
- How to anticipate adapting my farm ?
- How to take up the challenge of the non-food markets?
- How to better control my costs ?
An attractive organization which makes the messages clear and accessible
Farmers, agronomists, professors, students of agriculture
schools come to get the technical information directly from ARVALIS – Institut
du vegetal.
Come on a 40 hectares outdoor exhibition to meet our specialists and make yours
all the innovations in order to satisfy the demands of the food and non-food
markets.
- New machinery exhibition
- Trial plots
- Clear presentations of the innovations
- Demonstrations of decision-making tools.
- Conferences
- Experiences sharing with our experts
- Meetings with more than 130 suppliers.
| PROGRAMME |
The event is organized in 5 areas and proposes clear and
accessible messages to adapt your farm to the challenges coming.
Markets and agricultural policies
Who are the important world suppliers and consumers today?
What do french farms look like today?
Are they competitive?
Are they prepared to the challenges coming?
The “agricultural context” area will give you the keys to
understand the role of the French supplies in the world trade.
Quality - outlets
Which will be the outlets tomorrow?
The “Village des Filières” (outlets of today and tomorrow)
will unveil the innumerable food and non-food outlets. Who would suspect
there are cereals in his toothpaste ?
The farm : decision - making center
Which tools are available to choose my crops rotation, the organization
of my farm, my machinery and storage facilities, and to implement good
practices ?
The “Adapting the farm” area will propose diagnosis and decision-making
tools to adapt my farm.
Farming systems
How to adapt my farming system to the local conditions and to the global
market ?
The “farming system” area will evaluate various cropping
systems and explain how to work out particular problems at the rotation
scale.
Cropping techniques
Variety, sowing density, weed control, fungicides,
fertilisation… Each
step of the farming system will be highlighted for each crop: cereals,
oilseeds, pulses, sugar beet.
What are the consequences of a min-till system?
You will discover on the “soil cultivation” area the advantages
and disadvantages of the most economic techniques of implementation.
You will also have access to the long term trial of soil cultivation,
which highlights the consequences of the min-til techniques at a long
term scale.
| HOW
TO GET THERE |
| Venue
:  |
By car By plane From Charles-de-Gaulle Airport : |
| YOUR
CONTACT |
lesculturales@arvalisinstitutduvegetal.fr
| ADMISSION |
Admission free
for foreign visitors, provided they e-register :
In order to have the benefit of a free registration, please, fill in the
form below. You will receive a message confirming your registration. Print
out this message and show it at the reception desk (two copies needed
if you wish to attend two days).
(*) Compulsory information
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