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Events

The 2022 Tomato News Conference

From the 26/10/2022
Parma, Italy
After two years online, the Tomato News Conference came back in person during CibusTec Forum in Parma on Wednesday 26 October 2022 in cooperation with ANICAV's Il Filo Rosso conference. More than 350 people attended the event.  

The slides and videos of the conference are available below.
 

CHALLENGING TIMES FOR THE GLOBAL TOMATO PROCESSING INDUSTRY:

Impact of rising energy costs on major agrifood commodities
Filippo Roda (ARETE, Italy)
 

SLIDES 

VIDEO

EU policies and challenges for tomato processors 
Manuel Vazquez (Tomato Europe President & CONESA, Spain)

 

SLIDES

VIDEO

The 2022 processing season in the AMITOM countries
Alistair Blake (AMITOM President & Merko, Turkey)

 

SLIDES

VIDEO

The 2022 processing season in California
Mark de la Mater (The Morning Star Company, USA)

 

SLIDES

VIDEO

The 2022 processing season in China
He Peng (Xinjiang Dimension Int’l  Trading, China)

 

SLIDES

VIDEO

Why is it that tomato supply has been unable to respond to demand in the last years?
Martin Stilwell (Tomato News President & HIT, Portugal)

SLIDES

VIDEO

Discussion with Mike Montna (WPTC President & CTGA, USA)

 

 

VIDEO

Roundtable discussion with all speakers

 

 

VIDEO


SPONSOR PRESENTATIONS & FILMS:

SPONSOR presentation: DXAS/Kagome
Kengo Nakata (CEO DXAS Aricultural Technology, Japan)                         

SLIDES

VIDEO

SPONSOR presentation: Paste & Juice 
Tarek El-Kattan – (General Manager of Paste & Juice Co.)
Hatem El-Tawil – (General Manager of Paste & Juice Agri. Co.)

SLIDES

VIDEO

SPONSOR VIDEO: The Morning Star Packing Company 
 

 

VIDEO

PARTNER VIDEO: The Tomato Foundatio
 

 

VIDEO

 
 We thank our sponsors for making the event free for attendees:


GOLD SPONSORS
   

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