55TH ANNUAL CONGRESS 2015
13,14 & 15 April 2015
NH The Lord Charles Hotel
Somerset West
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
Day 1: 13 April 2014
17:00 – 18:00
19:00 – 21:00
Registration
Welcoming cocktail
Verglegen, NH The Lord Charles Hotel
Day 2: 14 April 2014
07:30 – 09:00
09:00 – 16:30
THEME:
Registration and refreshments
Plenary Session
Summerset Suite
FOOD PRODUCTION FOR A GROWING POPULATION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
Time
Topic
Chairperson: Adam Mostert, CEO of FERTASA
09:00 – 09:10
Welcome
Jaco Raath, Vice-Chairman, FERTASA
09:10 – 09:30
Chairman’s Report
Adriaan de Lange, Chairman, FERTASA
09:30 – 10:00
The Role of Government in Food Production
Joyene Isaacs, Head of Western Cape Department of Agriculture
10:00 – 10:30
Food Production and the National Development Plan
Prof Nick Vink, University Stellenbosch
10:30 – 11:00
Food Production in Zambia
Dr Guy Scott, Zambia
11:00 – 11:20
Break/Networking
Chairperson: Director of FERTASA
11:20 – 11:50
The Reality of Food Production in Southern Africa – Present and Future
Prof Ferdi Meyer, BFAP, University of Pretoria
11:50 – 12:20
Soil, Food and Population Pressure – A Cinderella Story in the Making?
Liesl Wiese, ARC-ISCW
12:20 – 13:00
Panel Discussion
All Morning Speakers
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch
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