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New Board Members and Future Chairman confirmed at GCA AGM
100% responsible ‘Food Range’ released by Cotswold Granaries
Plant sales more than double
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Pearson Memorial medal awarded to Adam Wigglesworth of Aylett Nurseries
Risk to Scottish horticulture growing each day
One million steps for Garden Re-Leaf 2021
AMES UK invest more than £1m in infrastructure and people in response to increasing market demand
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Gardening expert Richard Jackson challenges Britain to get ready, steady, grow!
Mental health body is garden centre's charity of the year
Dobbies bids to tackle food waste with Magic Bag
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Altons BBQ World, Aylett Nurseries, Barton Grange, Baytree, Busy Bee, Groves, Pengelly, Pughs, The Old Railway Line and Squires Badshot Lea are the winners of GTN's Greatest Christmas Awards
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Pots of potential for container gardening
Garden businesses wilt under Brexit trade rules
Working together for better plant health
Cold weather boost for Wild Bird Care
Onions dominate Veg-2-Gro sales
Uplift in demand causes Greenregis mail order business to move
Introducing ‘The Real Soil Company’ – the new name in high-quality, results-driven topsoil
Gift card sales surge over UK’s first Covid Christmas
The best of last week's
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Moving on up… slowly
Greenfingers Charity welcomes Guy Topping as Trustee
RHS awards key outdoor pots license to Woodlodge
Jeno Floral - pick of the Christmas Bestsellers
Great roofing products for the garden make-over boom
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Barton Grange Christmas 2020 - Exclusive GTN Xtra Photo Tour
Squires Badshot Lea - Christmas 2020
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British Garden Centres open their 58th centre at Thatcham
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Working together for better plant health

 

The International Association of Horticultural Producers (AIPH) is inviting all those involved in the ornamental horticulture supply chain to attend its virtual Plant Health Conference, ‘Working Together for Better Plant Health’. 

 

The online conference will take place on 24 March 2021 and is free to attend for registered participants.

 

The conference, organised in association with the International Year of Plant Health (IYPH 2020) and FloraCulture International (FCI) magazine, will focus on what the industry itself is doing to tackle the threats posed by notifiable pests and diseases.

 

Commenting on the need for the event, AIPH Secretary General, Tim Briercliffe said “Every country has its own regulatory framework for controlling plant health but in many cases, this has not been effective enough to prevent the spread of pests and diseases, with Xylella being an example.  In many countries growers and their associations have taken their own action to ensure best practice is followed and to inject renewed confidence into the supply chain because, at the end of the day, good plant health is essential for a thriving industry.”

 

The objectives of this conference are:

  • To share best practice and experiences from industry-led initiatives that reduce plant health risks
  • To present research on plant health initiatives in different countries
  • To determine interest in more global cooperation on plant health initiatives

 

The conference will be opened by Mr. Ralf Lopian, Chair of the International Steering Committee for the IYPH 2020, and speakers that follow will be from the ornamentals industry and will explain about national plant health initiatives led by industry in different countries.  Many countries have introduced schemes, certification and initiatives, and this conference enables these to be reviewed and compared, and importantly, provides the platform to assess the need for more international collaboration that will further strengthen the industry and reduce plant health threats for the future.  Within the conference programme, AIPH will present the results of the first international survey of national plant health initiatives.

 

This conference will be of interest to growers, breeders, traders, retailers, associations, exhibitions, regulators, and anyone that cares about reducing plant health threats while maintaining a thriving horticultural trade.

 

The event is free, and delegates can register by visiting https://eu.eventscloud.com/aiph-international-plant-health-conference

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