Back-to-back April MAP events in Republic of Turkey
by Market Insider
Friday, 13 Mar. 2015
Those involved in the production, processing and trade of Eastern European or Mediterranean region medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) may want to consider spending part of April in the Republic of Turkey for back-to-back MAP events 16-19 April in Izmir, on the Aegean coast and 22-25 April in Antalya on the Mediterranean coast.
Co-located with the Izmir Organic Products Fair (16-19 April), Republic of Turkey’s leading trade event for organic products, will be the ‘International Turkish Quality Symposium for Organic Medicinal and Aromatic Plants’ (17-18-April). The two-day congress, organized by the Association of Organic Agriculture (ETO) in collaboration with the German-Turkish Bilateral Project, the FairWild Foundation (FWF) and EKOLOJI Fair Izmir, will highlight Turkey’s importance for the production of organic medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) for the international markets. The symposium will focus on international value chains for organic MAPs, MAP production situation in Turkey, specific quality challenges of MAPs, sustainable wild collection of MAPs, and MAP marketing issues.
Then in Antalya, the ‘2nd Mediterranean Symposium on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants’ (22-25 April) will cover topics including good agricultural and collection practices (GACPs) for MAPs, biodiversity conservation, management and sustainable uses of MAPs and non-wood-forest products (NWFPs), industrial processing technologies of MAPs, herbal and traditional medicines, legislation on MAPs and NWFPs, botany, ethnobotany & ethnopharmacology, standardization and quality of MAP products, and marketing of MAPs and MAP products.
Sources:
• International Turkish Quality Symposium for Organic Medicinal and Aromatic Plants: http://ekolojiizmir.izfas.com.tr/en/etkinlik-programlari/activity-programme/
• 2nd Mediterranean Symposium on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants: http://www.mesmap.org/