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Miroslaw Korzeniowski

Short biography of Dr Miroslaw Korzeniowki, P: Miroslaw Korzeniowski has been collaborating with the Polish blackcurrant association KSPCP since 2014 as an expert in crop protection, food chain and sustainable farming. In the same year, he also joined the IBA and dynamized the Agronomy Sector Group. Education: Agricultural and Marketing Management in AgriBusiness PhD (Crop [...]

Dorota Jarret

Short biography of Dr Dorota Jarret, UK: Dorota Jarret first graduated from the Agricultural University of Szczecin (Poland) with a degree in horticulture and a specialization in fruit cultivation. She then worked as an agronomist with a commercial soft fruit producer in Scotland. This is how she gained an experience of several years in the [...]

Stanislaw Pluta

Short biography of Dr Stan Pluta, P: Stanislaw Pluta graduated at the Faculty of Horticulture at the Agricultural University of Lublin in 1983. He has then been working as a scientist at the Institute of Pomology and Floriculture (now the Research Institute of Horticulture) in Skierniewice, Poland, since 1985. Later, in 1994, he completed his [...]

Piotr Baryla

Short biography of Dr Piotr Baryla, P: Piotr Baryla completed his gardening studies in 1996. Then, in 2004, he got a PhD degree in Agricultural Sciences, with the specialty of horticultural nursery. Issues related to the production of high quality nursery stock have been part of his work. Today, he is a researcher at the [...]

IBA Conference 2020: Let’s explore Ukraine!

Very recentely, Ukraine has joined the International Blackcurrant Association. Their involvement starts with a huge project: the promise to host the next IBA conference 2020 - in Lviv! Where are we going? You may think that we are desperately trying to challenge your linguistic skills when we choose the locations for our international conferences. After [...]

STEF Dijon – specialists for freezing blackcurrants

A huge majority of the blackcurrant liqueurs of the world come from Burgundy (France). Not amazingly, you can also find special equipments, infrastructures and companies for the same purpose. STEF Dijon is part of the chain, with solutions for freezing blackcurrants. Special infrastructure for a special production In 2014, STEF has adopted an important strategy [...]

Blackcurrants Ukraine

Main blackcurrant growing areas Urkainian Berries Association 03150, 72 Yamska Street, b.5, of. 201 Kyiv, Ukraine Phone: +38 044 561 61 62 or +38 067 487 37 40 or +38 050 383 07 15 info@uaberries.com.ua http.uaberries.com.ua Head of organisation: MS. Kukhtina Iryna Contact person Iryna Kukhtina kukhtinaia@gmail.com Key data Growing surface: 5 000 ha Average annual production: 27 000 [...]

Flashback IBA conference Angers

Another of our conferences is past, and allowed us to meet, talk and learn. We shared great moments of gathering together and listened to a huge lot of interesting presentations. In total, 195 people from 16 countries came the more or less long way to Angers (France) for our favorite little berry: the blackcurrant. IBA [...]

Amazing new stuff at the Blackcurrant Products Contest 2018

The second international blackcurrant products contest 2018 revealed an amazing range of new products. This could be possible thanks to the work of a group of students from the Higher School of Agriculture in Angers (ESA). Blackcurrant products contest 2018: the competition gets regular! Since 2016, the International Blackcurrant Association organizes a “blackcurrant contest” every [...]

All IBA conference presentations online: check our library

IBA conference presentations online You couldn't attend one our conferences? There is something you would like to check in one of the presentations you listened to? You need documentation on a certain topic? We can help you! Difficult to remind everything from 2 days of intensive work. When we have our conferences, you listen to [...]

Nectars de Bourgogne reveals the blackcurrant

Florent and Emmanuelle Baillard share their passion of blackcurrants in two different ways: Florent produces the fruits, Emmanuelle processes them under the name "Nectars de Bourgogne". A success story from Burgundy (France). Back to the roots Before it comes to Nectars de Bourgogne, it is a long way to go. At first, like many other [...]

International Blackcurrant Conference 2018, Angers, France – Photo gallery

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