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Something For Everyone At This Year's BCPC Congress
LONDON, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --
With the curtain about to rise on this year's BCPC Congress, the finalised conference programme is guaranteed
to offer something for everyone. This year's event - which runs from 9 to 11 November at the SECC, Glasgow, UK
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features over 70 speakers from around the world and offers an unique forum for the global crop production
industry.
Welcoming the new format, which was conceived following the alliance of UBM and BCPC, Dr Colin Ruscoe,
chairman of BCPC says, "Extensive research was undertaken to ensure that the content of the programme would
meet delegates' needs and interests. We are delighted that we now have a comprehensive set of sessions with
both strategic and scientific content."
"Top of the agenda will be food security and the role that science and technology can play in providing long term
food supply sustainability," says Dr Ruscoe. "Agricultural technologies are once again coming to the fore as vital
tools to meet the key challenges facing global agriculture, such as the impact of climate change and the constraints
that water can have to global food production. These sessions will provide a great opportunity for debate and
discussion on the problems and possible solutions."
For the scientific community, the familiar research-focused sessions on new products, the latest application and
formulation technology, biosensors, research funding issues and nanotechnology will be of considerable interest.
"This year's conference is definitely broader in content than ever before," says Dr Ruscoe. "If you want to know
what is really threatening the decline of bees and what impact this could have, or want to know what effect
biofuels could have of future global food production or if you have an interest in the amenity sector then the BCPC
Congress is definitely the place to head on 9 November."
But the Congress is not just about the conference sessions. The Exhibition and Hospitality facilities, which run
alongside the conference, attract technical and research delegates along with commercial and technical
managers, who will come to do business, entertain clients and keep in touch with industry developments.
With only a few weeks to go delegates are recommended to register as soon as possible to avoid queuing at the
registration desk. To see full details of the conference programme and speaker line-up, as well as details on how to
The British Crop Production Council (BCPC) promotes the science and practice of sustainable crop production.
A non-profit making organisation, it has developed an international reputation over 50 years as a forum for good
practice and sound science in the fields of agriculture, food and the environment. Its conferences, publications and
working groups bring together scientists to form opinion on key issues.
UBM focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the
development and monetisation of B2B communities and markets. UBM's businesses inform markets and serve
professional commercial communities - from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewellery traders, from
farmers to pharmacists – with integrated events, online, print and business information products. Our 6,500
staff in more than 30 countries are organised into specialist teams that serve these communities, bringing buyers
and sellers together, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently. For more
SOURCE: UBM Conferences
CONTACT: UBM: Zahid Nawaz,
BCPC Commercial Manager,
+44 (0)20 7560 4135,
zahid.nawaz@ubm.com;
or BCPC: Chris Todd,
General Manager,
+44 (0)1420 593 200,
md@bcpc.org
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