The 2024 EIMA event is offering a wide-ranging and highly topical program of conferences and events as part of the agricultural machinery trade fair being held at the Bologna exhibition center from 6 to 10 November. The five days of the exhibition will include over 150 meetings – in the form of conferences, talk shows, workshops and appointments outside the show – dedicated to important topics related to agriculture and agro-mechanics.
The calendar of numerous events sponsored by institutional bodies, specialist publications, professional organizations, and associations active in the agricultural and agro-industrial supply chains, offers opportunities to stay up to date and in the know on issues such as the common agricultural policy, the market of machinery and services for agriculture and green care, international cooperation, safety at work, employment prospects in the sector and new technological frontiers. The program developed by the 11 Universities present in the EIMA Campus area is also extremely extensive, and together with the Italian Association of Agricultural Engineering will include lessons and training activities for students as part of the exposition.
This year’s trade fair is taking place precisely at the moment when the political discussion on eco-sustainable agriculture models is in full swing – explains FederUnacoma, the Italian federation of manufacturers that is the organizer of the event – on the new geography of markets, on the development of the African continent, on the system of incentives and on the needs for professional training or agriculture and agro-mechanics, and this makes the political- and economic-themed meetings to be held as part of the event particularly interesting.
The first discussion scheduled as part of the program is of a purely political nature and will be held immediately after the inauguration ceremony. It is entitled: “Technologies for the agromechanical industry, professional skills and markets: new challenges for agricultural businesses”. In the afternoon of the same day, there will be a conference on “African Continental Free Trade Area, agriculture and mechanization: a window on the future”, promoted by Africa e Affari and FederUnacoma, that will focus on the development prospects of the continent in light of the establishment of the free trade area.
The meetings that will take place during the visits planned by delegations of MEPs and Italian parliamentarians from the agriculture and environment committees are dedicated to political strategies, while an in-depth analysis of the role of Made in Italy products in the sector will be offered during the meeting on “Innovation and mechanization: the future of agricultural machines”, organized by the Quotidiano Nazionale newspaper with the participation of the representatives of the sector associations that make up FederUnacoma.
