A&PB Sector Group
What is the Blackcurrant Agronomy & Plant Breeding Sector Group ?
The IBA Blackcurrant Agronomy & Plant Breeding Sector Group officially started its work in 2016. This working group is a sub-section of the International Blackcurrant Association. Its objective is to collect information in the fields of agronomy and plant breeding from all blackcurrant growing countries. This information can thus be shared between blackcurrant growers and blackcurrant agronomy specialists. The work of the sector group aims at facilitating the access to this information.
Membership and meetings
The members of the sector group meet bi-annually at the international conferences. Any person or organization can become a member of IBA A&PB Sector Group at any time. Only membership in the IBA is compulsory for any participant.
IBA Agronomy & Plant Breeding Sector Group

Piotr Baryla, Poland
Head of A&PB Sector Group, University of Life Sciences in Lublin

Gitte Hallengreen Jorgensen, Denmark
HortiAdvice Scandinavia

Hanne Lindhard Pedersen, Denmark
Special Consultant HortiAdvice Scandinavia

Karen Koefoed Petersen, Denmark
Science Leader Aarhus University

Kersti Kahu, Estonia
Estonian University of Life Sciences

Hedi Kaldmäe, Estonia
Senior Specialist, Estonian University of Life Sciences

Tomi Pousi, Finland
Specialist, Finnish Association of Fruit and Berry Growers

Michael Bullinger, Germany
Blackcurrant Grower

Heiko Danner, Germany
Blackcurrant Grower

Biff Kitson, New Zealand
Plant & Food Research

Stanislaw Pluta, Poland
Research Institute of Pomology and Floriculture Skerniewicze

Harriet Roberts, UK
Agronomist Lucozade Ribena Suntory LTD.

Edward Thompson, UK
Pixley Berries

Dr. Dorota Jarret, UK
The James Hutton Institute

Dr Aleksandr Yareshchenko, Ukraine
Institute of Horticulture, National Academy of Agrarian Sciences...