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AGRA 2015 opens today

AGRA 2015 opens today

3/4/2015 11:16:00 AM
The International Agricultural Exhibition AGRA has been organized since 1992, in partnership with the Agricultural Academy at the Ministry of Agriculture and Food. Three years later, the exhibition has been recognized as a UFI approved event and is now the largest forum of agribusiness inSoutheast Europe.

The 24rd edition of the International Agricultural Exhibition AGRA will be held from 4 – 8 March 2015. The event is organized by International Fair Plovdiv under the auspices of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, in cooperation with the Agricultural Academy, Sofia.

For the fourth year in a row, the BioAgra Trade Exhibition of Organic Farming will be organized in partnership with the AVALON Foundation, the Netherlands.

Since 2013, a new project representing the achievements of the Bulgarian livestock breeding has been launched in cooperation with the breeding associations in the country.


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