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NAMPO Harvest Day goes digital
The 2020 NAMPO Harvest Day, which has been bringing agriculture together for almost six decades, had to be canceled for the first time. by organizers Grain SA, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The show was postponed to August 2020 at the outbreak of the pandemic, but following the announcement of an unspecified ban on large gatherings, the 2020 NAMPO Harvest Day on NAMPO Park will now not take place.
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However, farmers will be able to still enjoy the best that agriculture has to offer. This is because the NAMPO Harvest Day show, which will be the 54th edition of this iconic Agricultural tradeshow, is going digital!
Fittingly themed “Find your 2020 Agri-Vision”, the show is set to run from 9-12 September 2020. The virtual NAMPO Harvest Day will be new, exciting
and innovative, and connect farmers, suppliers, and colleagues with many of their favorite exhibitors and a wealth of online content across the industry and across the globe. Grain SA will transform the biggest agricultural tradeshow into a convenient and safe interactive online virtual experience.
NAMPO Harvest Day will revamp its digital presence with a virtual event that will feature most of what attendees would have experienced at the physical Harvest Day. Exhibitors, who have responded positively to the virtual offering, will be able to feature all their products on the virtual NAMPO platform and showcase their latest innovations, while visitors will be able to sign up for one-to-one consultations and delve into the latest technical presentations and product demonstrations.
In addition, the platform variation has provided Grain SA with the opportunity to continue with a virtual NAMPO Harvest Day experience beyond this year. The virtual offering will never be able to replace the face-to-face experience of visitors and exhibitors on NAMPO Park but will provide future exhibitors with the option to complement their physical presence at NAMPO with a virtual duplicate of their booth, reaching an even wider audience in 2021 and beyond.
