International Sericulture Conference
18 September 2007 - 21 September 2007
Bulgaria
International Conference “Sericulture Challenges in the 21st Century” (Serichal 2007), & the 3rd BACSA meeting will be held in Vratza, Bulgaria from 18 to 21 September 2007. The Bulgarian National Centre of Agricultural Sciences, Sericulture Experiment Station (SES), Vratza is hosting the meeting in collaboration with The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Black, Caspian Seas and Central Asia Silk Association (BACSA).
The conference and BACSA meeting have the following topics:
1) To make an evaluation of the results from the international testing of different silkworm hybrids from 10 countries, held in 2006 and 2007 in Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Romania and Uzbekistan under the BACSA framework;
2) Future planning on the global exchange of sericulture genetic resources;
3) Discussion on how to participate in “2009 International Year of Natural Fibres”;
4) Presentation of some recent scientific achievements in the sericulture science and technology;
5) The policy of FAO to support the global sericulture development;
6) The European Union policy to support the sericulture development;
7) Report on the BACSA activities during 2006/2007 and programme for the planned future activities.
Please find attached the Letter of open invitation (first announcement) along with the Conference programme, Registration form and Abstract submission form.
The Serichal 2007 is open to all those involved and interested in sericulture industry - sericulturists, agricultural and industrial producers of cocoon and silk, administrators, developers, entrepreneurs, traders, and scientists and technicians, working in each step or link of production and trade chains for cocoon, silk and silk commodities.
Science and technology papers are invited to be presented in the field of mulberry and non-mulberry silkworms, cocoon and silk production, pathology, breeding and bacology, post-cocoon technologies, silk enterprise and trade. Exhibition sessions will also be organized for equipment/tools and silk products.
Those who require a personalized letter of invitation for the purpose of travel documents to Bulgaria may wish to contact:
Dr Panomir Tzenov, Director, Sericulture Experiment Station, Vratza; tel. +35992642221; Fax: +35992645154; Mobile: +359888479438; e-mail: panomir@yahoo.com ; panomir@dir.bg
Updated information about the forthcoming event as well as other activities in sericulture industry development you may find at the BACSA web site: http://www.bacsa-silk.org(opens in new window)
The conference and BACSA meeting have the following topics:
1) To make an evaluation of the results from the international testing of different silkworm hybrids from 10 countries, held in 2006 and 2007 in Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Romania and Uzbekistan under the BACSA framework;
2) Future planning on the global exchange of sericulture genetic resources;
3) Discussion on how to participate in “2009 International Year of Natural Fibres”;
4) Presentation of some recent scientific achievements in the sericulture science and technology;
5) The policy of FAO to support the global sericulture development;
6) The European Union policy to support the sericulture development;
7) Report on the BACSA activities during 2006/2007 and programme for the planned future activities.
Please find attached the Letter of open invitation (first announcement) along with the Conference programme, Registration form and Abstract submission form.
The Serichal 2007 is open to all those involved and interested in sericulture industry - sericulturists, agricultural and industrial producers of cocoon and silk, administrators, developers, entrepreneurs, traders, and scientists and technicians, working in each step or link of production and trade chains for cocoon, silk and silk commodities.
Science and technology papers are invited to be presented in the field of mulberry and non-mulberry silkworms, cocoon and silk production, pathology, breeding and bacology, post-cocoon technologies, silk enterprise and trade. Exhibition sessions will also be organized for equipment/tools and silk products.
Those who require a personalized letter of invitation for the purpose of travel documents to Bulgaria may wish to contact:
Dr Panomir Tzenov, Director, Sericulture Experiment Station, Vratza; tel. +35992642221; Fax: +35992645154; Mobile: +359888479438; e-mail: panomir@yahoo.com ; panomir@dir.bg
Updated information about the forthcoming event as well as other activities in sericulture industry development you may find at the BACSA web site: http://www.bacsa-silk.org(opens in new window)
Keywords
sericulture