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Dirk Herdieckerhoff

Short biography of Direk Herdieckerhoff, Germany: Dirk Herdieckerhoff gained his fruit industry experience working on a fruit farm in Kent, UK. In 1985, he completed his Masters degree in Agriculture at the University of Minnesota, USA. He then worked in various positions in agriculture and horticulture. For the last 25 years, Dirk has been the [...]

Mike Kearney

Short biography of Mike Kearney, NZ: Mike Kearney is Manager of Blackcurrants New Zealand Inc. This wholly-owned New Zealand grower cooperative represents all New Zealand blackcurrant growers. Mike was a former economics policy adviser for the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. Holding a B.Ag.Com as well as diplomas in Accountancy and Horticulture, Mike has worked with [...]

Tomi Pousi

Short biography of Tomi Pousi, F: Tomi Pousi completed his plant production sciences studies (MSc) in University of Helsinki in 2017 specializing into plant pathology. Already during his studies he was working as technical support agronomist with biological plant protection products. In November 2019 he moved into the Finnish Association of Fruit and Berry Growers [...]

Miroslaw Korzeniowski

Short biography of Dr Miroslaw Korzeniowki, P: Miroslaw Korzeniowski has been collaborating with the Polish blackcurrant association KSPCP since 2014 as an expert in crop protection, food chain and sustainable farming. In the same year, he also joined the IBA and dynamized the Agronomy Sector Group. Education: Agricultural and Marketing Management in AgriBusiness PhD (Crop [...]

Dorota Jarret

Short biography of Dr Dorota Jarret, UK: Dorota Jarret first graduated from the Agricultural University of Szczecin (Poland) with a degree in horticulture and a specialization in fruit cultivation. She then worked as an agronomist with a commercial soft fruit producer in Scotland. This is how she gained an experience of several years in the [...]

Stanislaw Pluta

Short biography of Dr Stan Pluta, P: Stanislaw Pluta graduated at the Faculty of Horticulture at the Agricultural University of Lublin in 1983. He has then been working as a scientist at the Institute of Pomology and Floriculture (now the Research Institute of Horticulture) in Skierniewice, Poland, since 1985. Later, in 1994, he completed his [...]

Piotr Baryla

Short biography of Dr Piotr Baryla, P: Piotr Baryla completed his gardening studies in 1996. Then, in 2004, he got a PhD degree in Agricultural Sciences, with the specialty of horticultural nursery. Issues related to the production of high quality nursery stock have been part of his work. Today, he is a researcher at the [...]

Jim Grierson

Short biography of Jim Grierson, NZ: Jim has been involved as an Agronomist in horticulture for 39 years with the last 25 years within the Blackcurrant and Viticulture Industries. Currently, he is contracted to Frucor Beverages Ltd. He is responsible for the agronomy of the contracted fruit for the Ribena Brand in New Zealand. As a director of Grierson [...]