Postharvest Pacifica 2009
Pathways to Quality

15-19 November

Napier, New Zealand

Workshop and Tour

The conference will include at least one technical tour and workshop. There will be a workshop on Market Access (due to popular demand at the last APHC), and we are open to suggestions on other topics/areas.

Postharvest Pacifica Workshops

Market Access

The workshop will aim to bring together researchers and interested industry parties to discuss postharvest disinfestation treatments as well as some “systems approach” research. Although the actual workshop (about 2 hours) will be the key focus, we aim to facilitate a range of other informal and semi-formal meetings to maximise the interaction between researchers. This will include meetings at lunchtime and a dinner earlier in the conference (following the Market Access conference session) to ensure interested people make contact early in the conference. The format of the workshop will be roundtable discussions and interactive i.e. not presentations with short question and answer slots afterwards. Examples of the discussion areas include:

• What are the emerging technologies from a research perspective (e.g. MSDD)?

• What technologies/treatments have been recently rolled out to industry?

• Where to for fumigation? Phosphine, more MeBr, update on ethanedinitrile and others.

We will also be calling for interested parties to start email interaction before the conference. Please email Allan Woolf at Allan.Woolf@plantandfood.co.nz.

Workshop on Supply Chain Management

The workshop/discussion session aims at identifying broadly accepted answers to two questions: (1) what are key success factors for the establishment and operation of horticultural supply chains, and (2) what will future state-of-the-art supply chains in horticulture look like.  In order to achieve this aim, first, invited speakers from the organizational sciences (management, economics), the natural sciences (technology, plant physiology, etc.) and from business will provide their individual answers in 20-minute presentations.  Then a moderated discussion involving all speakers as well as the audience will try to integrate the different views and to synthesise relevant answers.  At the end, workshop participants can expect to having gained a better understanding of current and upcoming issues affecting the success of horticultural supply chains in the Asia-Pacific and global economy.

For further information please contact Christian Fischer at C.Fischer@massey.ac.nz.