Black Sea Grain - 2015
Future that came:
• Growth of political risks. Critical importance of switching to the long term development strategies
• Issue of low prices for agrarian commodities in terms of the global market development stagnation
• Farmers` profit decrease. Scarcity of investments under conditions of low production margin. Growth of competition on the global markets
• Excess of information. Effective interpretation to make the best decisions
• Heading for the management efficiency growth to obtain the highest profitability of agrarian business
The main topics:
• 2015 crop – decline after the highest production level? Competitive power of the Black Sea region in the light of record high grain and oilseeds production on the world markets
• Forecast for 2015/2016: Weather market? Political market? Key factors of grain production in the Black Sea region (Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan)
• Wide reforms and economy deregulation in Ukraine: results and outlook
• Demand from Asia – key factor determining development of agrarian sector
• Global tendencies of investment flows in agrarian sector: how wide is the gap between supply and demand of agricultural commodities? Directions of current investments
• Cooperatives and large scale farms (agriholdings) in agriculture: advantages, disadvantages, competitiveness. Future of agrarian business in the Black Sea region.
History: In 2014 “Black Sea Grain” Conference was visited by nearly 600 representatives of 520 trading and producing companies. Leading exporters, grain buyers, agriholdings, banks and insurance companies traditionally take part in Conference. Ukrainian as well as foreign companies took interest in this forum from 50 countries of the world. Informal discussion allowed the participants to considerably widen the range of partnership relations, exchange their points of view on the key tendencies of market development.