1. SUSTAINABLE ENERGY PROFESSIONS BREEDING Official inauguration Sunday 20 February at 11 am By Bruno Le Maire, French Minister for Agriculture, Foods, Fisheries, Rural Affairs and Regional Planning  The ministerial party sets off from the meeting point in Hall 6 at 10:45 am. Institutional visitors expected at SIMA: Mykola Prysyazhnyuk, Minister of Agricultural Policy (Ukraine), Mohammad Asif Rahimi, Minister of Agriculture (Afghanistan), Valeriu Tabara, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (Romania), Josip Kraljickovic, Secretary of State for Agriculture (Croatia), Gabriel Csicsai, Secretary of State for Agriculture (Slovakia), Abdoulaye Combari, Minister-Delegate for Agriculture (Burkina Faso), Jakob Brenčič, Ambassador for Slovenia, Sandor Fazekas, Minister of Agriculture and Laszlo Trocsanyi, Ambassador for Hungary, Ricardo Sanchez, Vice-minister of Agriculture (Colombia), Elena Skrinnik, Minister of Agriculture (Russia)… DEPHY Ecophyto Thursday 24 February 10 am to 2:30 pm: assessment and preliminary feedback The creation of a network of DEPHY Ecophyto farms for Demonstration, Experimentation and Production of references in phystosanitary systems is one of the biggest objectives of the Ecophyto 2018 plan. Speakers: Pascale Briand, General Director for Foods – Ministry of Agriculture, Foods, Fisheries, Rural Affairs and Regional Planning, Odile Gauthier, Director for Water and Biodiversity – Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development, Transport and Housing, Guy Vasseur, Chairman of the Chambers of Agriculture and Marion Guillou, Chairwoman/Director of INRA. Centre de Conférences Jean Thèves (Halls 3 & 4)  Please confirm your attendance by 18 February 2011: http://jupiter.apca.chambagri.fr/limesurvey/index.php?sid=89486&lang=frttp://jupiter.apca.chambagri.fr/limesurvey/index.php?sid=89486&lang=fr CLIMMAR: exchanging views on the challenges of tomorrow Le CLIMMAR (International Liaison Centre for Agricultural Machinery Dealers and Repairers) is organizing a series of personalized encounters between exhibitors and European distribution networks  Club International – Hall 5a – 1 st floor Sunday 20 February 10 am - 12 noon: Hungary - 2 - 6 pm: Netherlands Monday 21 February - 10 am - 12 noon: United Kingdom – 2 - 4 pm: Poland / 22 February - 10 am - 12 noon: Belgium “6 countries in 5 days”: spotlight on India, Poland, China, Ukraine, Romania and the United States An opportunity for real discussion between exhibitors, institutional visitors and professionals from each of the countries covered. Monday 21 February: 2 - 3:30 pm: Poland. The agricultural sector in Poland: the present situation and perspectives for the future. 4 - 5:30 pm: India. Agricultural machinery in India: an overview of current farming techniques and agricultural machinery requirements. 4:30 - 5:30 pm: Round table: United States The agricultural equipment market in North America. Tuesday 22 February: 2 - 6 pm: Ukraine. Franco-Ukrainian encounters on agriculture: Part 1: Which technologies are needed in large-scale agriculture? / Part 2: Livestock farming in Ukraine - the opportunities. Wednesday 23 February: 10 - 11:30 am: China. Mechanization of Chinese agriculture and international cooperation. Thursday 24 February: 10 - 11:30 am: Romania. Mechanization in farming: techniques and sources of finance. INTERNATIONAL FLASH INFO Find all events at SIMA-SIMAGENA on Planet-agri.com Prepare your visit with the interactive plan : http://sima.plan- interactif.com Daily programmes of conferences and events available from the exhibition press office JUST IN! FOR YOUR DIARY