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Vol.7, No. 2 5th International Congress of Citrus Nurserymen This issue of the newsletter is dedicated to the forthcoming International Congress of Citrus Nurserymen. The meetings and tours will be in the Mediterranean Basin. Citrus nursery managers and growers will have the opportunity to talk with other nursery managers and see some of the worlds largest and advanced nurseries that produce both grove and ornamental trees. The congress meetings will be in France with a field trip to Corsica, and pre- and post-congress tours in the citrus growing areas of Morocco, Spain, and Italy. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to see first hand the citrus growing regions of the Mediterranean Basin. All persons involved in the citrus industry should make every attempt to participate in these meetings and tours. An opportunity like this should not pass without every effort being made to experience what others in our international community can offer. You must act soon as the deadline for reduced registration prices is 15 November, 1996. Registration forms for each part of the conference must be sent in separately and are included in this newsletter. If you use the registration forms in this newsletter be sure to fill out both front and back. Additional forms will be available at the Nov. 6 meeting in Dundee. Pre-Congress Tour in Morocco (22-27 Feb.) Citrus production in Morocco totals 1.2 million tons and is developed in four main areas: the Southern Agadir-Marrakesh zone, the Beni Mellal zone, the Gharb area and Lower Moulouyia in the north-east. Each of these areas uses sour orange rootstock. The tour will provide the opportunity to visit several of the most dynamic citrus sectors of the country, especially from the view point of elite planting material. Morocco is easily accessible by international flights to Casablanca and Agadir. The Moroccan pre-congress tour will start in Agadir on the Atlantic coast of Morocco where the congressists should arrive Sunday afternoon, February 23. The congressists arriving on afternoon and evening flights will be welcomed at the airport and transferred to the Beach Club Hotel for registration and reception. Monday 24 February Departure from the Beach Club Hotel to visit the large SODEA container grown nursery at OULED TEIMA. SODEA, a semi-private organization has the largest citrus and deciduous tree nurseries of the Kingdom with over one million citrus trees (the major rootstock being used is sour orange). Visit the Domaine T. KABBAGE: local cultivars of mandarins and clementines. Typical Moroccan lunch at Tiout Taroudant, a town named "the gateway to the South", surrounded by city walls of the old dynastics. Visit the orchards of Domaines Agricoles Kedima. Presentation of nucellar Maroc late, Fortuna, Nova, Ortaline, etc. This farm is testing new disease-free easy-peeling cultivars. Spend the night at Hotel SALAM Taroudant where there will be an evening discussion of the Moroccan CIP program. Tuesday 25 February Departure by bus to Marrakech, the famous capital of the South, built some eight centuries ago. The road runs along the Atlas mountains with peaks covered by snow. Visit to the Domaines Agricoles of Assoufit: clementines and oranges grafted on sour orange and other rootstocks. Lunch at Hotel Palmeraie, an attractive resort facility with traditional architecture built near a palm grove. Visit the surrounding area of small scale plantations and the old city of Marrakech with the famous Koutoubia minaret, the Jemaa-el-Fna square near the medina and the beautiful medieval city-walls. Dinner at Hotel La Palmeraie- Marrakech with a performance of traditional Atlas dancers. Wednesday February 26 Departure for Casablanca. Visit Atlas Fruit Board Company Casablanca, the major operator for citrus exports in Morocco. Meet with the Groupe des Domaines, an association of the most dynamic citrus growers for exports. Discussion of the promotion of seedless easy peelers and relevant nursery strategies. Lunch at Restaurant du Port with typical harbour/fishing atmosphere. Visit local infrastructures for quality controls of citrus: EACCE Autonomous Board of Certification and Control of Exports. Visit the citrus packinghouse of MAGRUMES at Aïn Seba. Depart for Rabat with dinner and night at Hotel Safir-Rabat. Thursday February 27 Visit to the indexing and quarantine greenhouses of the Domaines Agricoles. Visits to: 1) the certification unit of the Domaines agricoles 2) the Biological Control Unit for the Leaf Miner and other pests 3) the Diagnostic Unit for the prevention/eradication of Tristeza in nurseries and young orchards. Departure for Temara. Visit of the SODEA cleaning and indexing citrus unit, and the foundation blocks used for the large SODEA nurseries. Lunch at Institut Agronomique et Vetérinaire (IAV) Hassan II of Rabat. Meet with the Plant Protection and Quality Control Department of the Ministry of Agriculture (DPV CTRF), in charge of the national budwood certification programme. The congressists will have the opportunity to choose between three workshops organized at IAV Hassan II Rabat by the Gira Csa: Workshop 1: Certification schemes for citrus and relevant Moroccan options. Night at Hotel Safir, Rabat. Free evening Friday 28 February Departure Casablanca airport on flight to Valencia via Madrid, where Pre-Congress tour of Spain will begin. Departure early afternoon, arrival in Valencia 6:50 p.m. Cost of the Tour The general cost is that of a "package tour" including five hotel nights with breakfasts, dinners and four lunches, an evening of entertainment at Marrakech, transport by air conditioned bus for the whole circuit, from Agadir to Casablanca, and from Rabat to Casablanca. Congressists are invited to book their flights accordingly. Fast Voyages (2, rue du Caire, Rabat, Morocco - tel.: 212 7 70 79 86, fax: 212 7 70 67 34) was selected as the official travel agent of the Congress. Total deposit requested per person:
The following banking address must be used for sending your deposits (indicate 5th ISCN congress): Société Générale Marocaine de Banque (SGMB) - Agence Palace Médina - AGADIR - Morocco - Account number 903 49 68 The registration form must be completed and returned as soon as possible. They are planning for a group of 45 persons on a "first come first served basis". Please send your registration form to: GIRA Commission Sectorielle Agrumes Pre-Congress Tour in Spain (28 Feb. - 4 Mar.) With an annual production of 5 million tons, Spain ranks first among the various citrus countries of the Mediterranean Region. The citron was cultivated in Mallorca by the early fifth century. The Arabs introduced the sour orange and the lemon in the eleventh century. The severe frost in February 1956 triggered a sudden spread of tristeza as a result of unexpected aphid outbreaks, thus initiating a complete reorganization of the Spanish orchards and the development of the Citrus Improvement Programme of Spain (CIPS) in 1975. The multiplication of new rootstocks to replace sour orange was linked to scion cultivars sanitation and nursery upgrading. Citriculture plays an important role in the Spanish economy and is one of the main sources of foreign exchange. The supply of certified disease-free elite citrus plants is remarkably well-organized through a network of highly professional nurserymen, and congressists will have first-hand information on the Spanish mass propagation and certification scheme. Congressists who are not attending the Moroccan pre-congress tour should arrive at Valencia airport on Friday afternoon 28 February 1997 where they will be welcomed by the organizing committee. Friday February 28 Travel and arrive Valencia Hotel NH Center, Valencia Address: C/Ricardo Micó, 1 (near the bus station) tel: (34) 6 34750000 - fax: (34) 6 34 76252 Valencia is one of the most ancient harbours of the Western Mediterranean, established by Greek settlers in the first century BC. The area was later developed by Romans and Arabs into beautiful gardens with sophisticated irrigation networks. Saturday March 1 Travel by bus to the Instituto Valenciano de Investigationes Agratias (IVIA) at Moncado, near Valencia. Presentation of the world-known IVIA by its General Manager, Florentino JUSTE. Presentation by the Department of Plant Protection and Biotechnology Director Dr. L. Navarro, on Control of diseases and pests, production of virus-free planting material, and genetic improvement of rootstocks and scion cultivars with a new biotechnological approach. Presentation by the Department of Citriculture by its Director Dr. Salvador Saragoza on Physiology: cropping techniques, field selection of rootstocks and scion cultivars. Visit IVIA Laboratories and facilities: indexing greenhouses, screening repositories, collection blocks. Lunch offered by IVIA at "La Masia" Travel to REVA Ltd. citrus grove near Valencia. 650 ha of newly resetted plantings after the tristeza epidemics. Certified varieties: Navelate, W. Navel, Fortune, Navel Lanclate, Clementines, Nova. Departure by bus for Peñiscola. Hosteria Del Mar - Peñiscola. Peñiscola is an old fortified town built in the fourteenth century on a peninsula. It was formerly the residence of the anti-pope Benedict XIII. Sunday March 2 Visit the fortress that was occupied by the Temple Knights and Benedict XIII. Departure by bus to the AVASA farm. Visit the foundation and amplification blocks supplying more than 3 million citrus buds per year to 12 associated private nurserymen. See aphid proof screenhouses hosting the foundation and amplification blocks. The Citrus Certification Scheme in Spain will be presented by Dr. L. Navarro and F. Llaster. Paella lunch offered by AVASA. Visit the Valencia Ltd. Nursery. This AVASA Group nursery produces a million rootstock seedlings grown under plastic tunnels, and the same amount of grafted or ready-for-grafting citrus in open fields. Travel to the hotel Peñiscola for a special medieval dinner at the hotel Hosteria del Mar. Monday March 3 Departure by bus to Alcanar Ltd. Nurseries. Visit of 100 ha nursery blocks producing an annual 1.5 million citrus trees. Presentations on the production lines: rootstock preparation, transplants, grafting, pruning, delivery. Visit to SAT La Bota citrus orchard, 185 ha, with 115,000 trees, 10-13 years old, all from elite planting material. See new scion varieties on Carrizo citrange under sophisticated fertigation. Dinner and round table on the topic "Citrus Improvement Certification Schemes". As for Morocco, the general cost was handed as a "package tour" including four hotel nights with breakfast, picnic lunches, and dinners, and transport by train Benicarló- Montpellier. The congressists will be taken to Valencia and provided with transport to Montpellier. Tuesday March 4 Travel to the Benicarlo Railway Station and travel by the Talgo express train to Montpellier. Cost of the Tour
The following banking address must be used for sending your deposits (indicate 5th ISCN Congress): Caja Rural Credicoop: 3061 9960 63 20001717.48 The registration form must be completed and returned as soon as possible. We are planning for a group of 45 persons on a "first come first serve" basis. Please send your registration form to: Agrupación de Viveristas de Agrios S.A. France (5-8, March) General Program of the Congress and Related Visits: Various events will take place during the congress namely: - Formal sessions and workshops (2.5 days) - Business meeting of the ISCN - A satellite meeting will be held by the permanent commission of CLAM (Mediterranean Citrus Liason Committee). - Visits to a large nursery operator DEMOL (7 million plants of fruit trees) and a citrus ornamental nursery: 200,000 plants mostly calamondins and kumquats. - An optional trip to Corsica for visiting the Station de Recherches Arumicoles (SRA) at San Giuliano where large nucellar and foundation stocks are operated jointly by French INRA and CIRAD. This visit will be organized by President De Rocca Serra and Director R. Cottin. Congressists attending directly the congress should arrive on Tuesday 4 in the afternoon for registration. Montpellier, the capital of Languedoc, is famous for fruit, vegetable and grape production as well as rice in the nearby Camargue. The national Fruit Tree and Citrus Certification scheme is based in Montpellier and operates jointly with INRA-CTIFL-CIRAD and Plant Protection Services. The direction of CIRAD-FLHOR located at Montpellier is conducting a biotechnology programme on citrus in collaboration with INRA for the production of novel rootstocks and triploid mandarin hybrids by somatic fusion and embryo rescue. Corsica currently produces 30,000 tons of clementines mostly for export to the European market. The SRA of San Giuliano is an internationally recognized institution managing an outstanding virus-free citrus germplasm collection that is offered to numerous countries worldwide. The new varieties include several late maturing easy-peelers. Corsica has a long tradition of producing a local citron which is used for confectionery and liquers. Updated information on Corsica citrus germplasm can be obtained on the Internet Web server at URL[http://www.corse.inra.fr/sra/sra.htm] Wednesday March 5 Formal session. Novel propagation schemes in modern nurseries and biotechnology new opportunities in biotechnology. Advanced rootstock screening policies for avoiding biotic and abiotic stress. Formal session. Graft-transmissible diseases: their agents and their detection. Stubborn and Spiroplansma citri, Witches-broom and Phytoplasma aurantifolia, Citrus variegated chlorosis and Xyllela fastidiosa, Huanglungbin and the liberobacters, CTV, Exocortis Cachexia and viriods. Control of harmful bacteria/fungi. Citrus canker and Xanthomonas axonopodis pv citri, African cercospora and Phaeoramularia angolensis. ISCN business meeting and nominations for the election of the new president. Thursday March 6 Formal session. Relevant database systems for the permanent updating of rootstock and scion cultivar performances. Lunch at the conference site. Formal sessions. New concepts in the integrated management of insect pests and vectors in nurseries. Evening banquet. Friday March 7 End of formal sessions and conclusion. The national policies for certification and quality control of elite planting material. The congressists will have the choice between two options: - Visit of a large commercial nursery DEMOL Ltd. producing 7 million deciduous and other fruit trees in plain soil, as well as 700,000 vitroplants of stone/pome fruits and other species. Visit of GARCIN nurseries producing ornamental citrus (calamondins, kumquats, lemons, etc.). An original technique of grafted cuttings is being used for producing attractive ornamental citrus. Bus to Marseilles - Flight to Bastia (Corsica). Saturday March 8 Visit of the SRA, Station de Recherche Agrumicole INRA-CIRAD at San Giuliano Corsica: foundation blocks and collections. This station established in the late 1950s now possesses a large disease-free nucellar stock of 1,100 different citrus accessions of which 750 are readily available in the form of seeds (rootstocks) or budwood (scion cultivars). An interesting trial is also being conducted jointly with IVIA Spain for viroids where 11 strains of citrus viroids are tested individually or in 32 different combinations. This field trial planted in 1990 comprises 270 trees divided into 2 blocks and 6 replicates. The station also operates a sanitation and indexing unit. Finally there is also a large programme of rootstock experiments aimed at field-testing the behaviour of 120 different rootstocks in association with clementine. Cost of the Congress Registration fee is French Francs 1,800 before 15 November, and increases after 15 November. This will entitle participants to written materials, conference hall facilities and interpreters, daily transports by bus from hotels, coffee breaks, transport to DEMOL and Agrumes de Haute-Provence Garcin nurseries and to Marseille airport, three lunches and an evening banquet. Hotel Montpellier (including breakfast) Optional field trip Corsica Total deposit requested per person: Includes registration of 1,800 Francs plus hotel
The Corsica field trip is an additional congress event beginning 7 March (Friday evening) and ending up next day same time. For those taking the post-congress tour to Italy, and Alitalia connecting flight Marseille/Reggio Calabria.
5.15 French Francs = 1 US $ The following banking address must be used for sending deposits (indicate 5th ISCN congress): Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP)-Code banque 300004- Code guichet 01719 - N° de compte 00025072-419/09 The registration form must be completed and returned as soon as possible. We are planning for a group of 45 persons on a "first come first serve" basis. Please send your registration form to: The Organizing Committee of the 5th ISCN Congress Post Congress Tour in Italy (9-11 Mar.) Italy ranks second after Spain for the production of citrus in the Mediterranean Basin. Citrus is grown on 176,000 ha with a production of 3.4 million tons of which two-thirds are produced in Sicily. Sour orange is still used to a large extent as a rootstock. Orange production totals 2 MT, half being dedicated to juice processing followed by mandarins and clementines (0.5 MT) and lemons (0.75 MT). The domestic consumption of citrus is very high in Italy, at 56 kg/inhabitant; the county exports only 0.2 MT fresh citrus. The programme of visits includes some of the best professional nurseries, either for citrus fruit production or for ornamental purposes. The programme of sanitation and certification of citrus budwood in Italy is actively supported by the Instituto Sperimentale per l’Agrumicoltura in relation with the Universities of Catania and Bari. Italy has developed a rich collection of local mandarins and oranges (especially blood and semi-blood oranges). The tradition of ornamental orange trees grown in terracotta pots, goes back to the Medicis in the fifteenth century. However the first citrus to reach Italy was the citron which came with Greek settlers in the first century BC. Sunday March 9 Departure for Lamezia Terme. Visit to Bertolami nursery producing 250,000 citrus plants in rigid containers. Besides traditional rootstocks Bertolami has tested the Flying Dragon, the BA 300 a variant of Troyer, Siamelo, Citrumelo and Thomasville citrangequat. There is also a rich collection of mother plants. The nursery operates 30 plastic tunnels with drippers and fertigation. Picnic lunch at Bertolami nursery. Visit to Mangiapane nursery managing several multiplication blocks under glass. In addition, this nursery is producing 50,000 grafted citrus on Sour orange, Troyer, Carrizo, Flying Dragon. Olives and deciduous trees are also multiplied. Hotel Orizonte- Acireale (Sicily) Monday March 10 Departure by bus for the visit of Piante Faro nursery at Aci San Antonio. This 23-ha nursery produces a wide range of ornamental plants, especially superb citrus trees grown in 10 to 350 and even 700-liter containers. Sour orange, clementines, kumquats, lemons, citrons, pomelos, and oranges are sold with fruits or flowers and receive appropriate pruning. Piante Faro is one of the largest ornamental nurseries of Sicily and Europe, producing more than 2 million plants per year including 250,000 citrus. Visit of Ronde nursery, Lentini. Ronde is another ornamental nursery producing citrus plants presented in attractive containers, calamondins, chinottos, kumquats, lemons, etc. Picnic lunch at Ronde nursery. Visit of Messina Ltd. nursery near Catania; production of 300,000 citrus trees. Hotel Orizonte - Acireale. Tuesday March 11 Departure for Messina Visit of La Palmara nursery producing 100,000 ornamental citrus grafted on Flying Dragon, sour orange, Citrus volkameriana, Citrus macrophylla, Poncirus trifoliata. Picnic lunch at La Palmera. Visit of Torre nursery near Messina. Production of 300,000 plants and management of increasing blocks of elite planting material. Hotel Orizonte - Acireale. Wednesday March 12 Departure of congressists Cost of the Tour The participation costs will include: - 1 night Reggio Calabria + 3 nights at Orizzonte Hotel, Acireale includes evening meals. - Bus transportation to nurseries and airport - Picnic lunches Total deposit requested per person:
1539 Italian Liras = 1 US $ We are planning for a group of 35 persons on a "first come first serve" basis. The following banking address must be used for sending your deposits (indicate 5th ISCN congress): Banco di Roma- Agenzia di Acireale, Sicila- C/O N°901/331 - Cod. AB1 3002.2 - Cod. CAB 26200.6 Please send your registration form to: V.LO GIUDICE - Instituto Sperimentale per l’Agrumicoltura Sezione Biologica e Difesa Calendar of Events
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