PROGRAMME
INTERPERA 2025All presentations will be translated into English and French, and, depending on the number of participants, into Spanish and Italian.
Tuesday 24/06/25
- 19.00 – Welcome gathering in the Governor’s House in Hasselt city center followed by a reception and guided city walk.
Wednesday 25/06/2025: Conference
- 09.00 – Opening remarks
- 09.15 – Intro
- 09.30 – Review on the previous season France, The Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Spain, Italy: acreage, consumption, threats, alternatives, innovations, …
Moderator: Luc Vanoirbeek (VBT) - 11.00 – Coffee break
- 11.30 – Forecast F, NL, B, P, E, I and state of play season
Moderator: Dany Bylemans (PCFruit) - 13.00 – Lunch
- 14.00 – BelOrta’s view on pear commercialisation (Kris Jans)
- 14.20 – A concerted approach towards the future : the Eufrin Working Group Digital Orchards (Dany Bylemans)
- 14.40 – Pear market evolution consumption
- 15.00 – Breakout rooms
Postharvest:
- 15.30 – State of play postharvest research on pears by VCBT, Ann Schenk
- 15.50 – Harvista by Agrofresh
- 16.10 – Global FYSIUM® by Janssen PMP, Wendy Schotsmans
- 16.30 – Postharvest image analysis by Optiflux, Niels Bessemans
Technical issues:
- 15.30 – From macro to micro: Enabling tree-level precision management in modern pear growing, Peter Frans De Jong
- 15.50 – State of the art of Stink bug control
- 16.10 – Better positioning of pear sucker control measures by modelling, Tim Beliën
- 16.30 – DCM PEA-02® : Innovative and sustainable biocontrol product against fire blight
- 16.50 – Unitec presentation
- 17.00 – Closing remarks and reception
- 19.00 – Walking dinner
Thursday 26/06/25: Technical visits
- 08.00 – Departure @ Corda campus or Has Hotel/Century
- 09.00 – Visit BelOrta sorting and storage (Borgloon)
- 10.30 – Departure to PCFruit, the Research Station for Fruit
- 11.00 – Visit PCFruit (Sint-Truiden)
- 12.30 – Sandwich Lunch at PCFruit
- 13.30 Departure (eventual transport to railway station Landen – direct train to Brussels
Airport)