REVIEW
PREMIER FRUIT EVENT 16
Warm weather, a packed programme, product launches, topical debates and the chance to catch up with friends, suppliers and customers ensured that the 2022 Fruit Focus more than matched the show’s claim to be the industry’s “premier fruit event”. There was a purposeful feel about the show, with visitors fully engaged with the standholders, keen to learn about new and better technology and sharing ideas and information both in formal sessions and while pausing for a chat with friends and colleagues. Held at NIAB East Malling in Kent, Fruit Focus again combined research tours, NFU-sponsored fruit forums and demonstrations with a broad range of stands manned by suppliers from across the whole of the fruit industry. From agronomists to machinery manufacturers, packing specialists to robotics companies and substrate suppliers to plant nutrition experts, the show had plenty to offer and aroused considerable
> Fruit Focus panel (L-R) Martin Emmett, John Giles, Chris Newenham and Tim Mordan interest from potential buyers, suppliers and partners. The show also gave agronomists, farm managers, advisers and others the chance to earn BASIS
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