Baku Hosts Exhibition of Food Industry

Today, May 19 in Baku Expo Center opened the 22^nd exhibition Food Industry – World Food Azerbaijan 2016.

At the opening ceremony, the Executive Director of Iteca Caspian Farid Mammadov said the exhibition shows 11% rise and in its composition 67% are foreign participants. This year's exhibitions World Food Azerbaijan and Caspian Agro are attended by 309 companies from 34 countries of the world. Among them are Belarus, Germany, India, Italy, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Netherlands, UAE, Russia, Czech Republic and other countries. At the same time more than 20 companies came to the exhibition from Turkey

State Tea Committee Sri Lanka Tea Board heads the group of companies from Sri Lanka.

Most active are the local manufacturers and distributors, amounting to 25% of the total number of exhibitors. Among them are leading companies of the food sector of the country, permanent participants of the exhibition, Azersun Holding, Atena, Caspian Construction Systems, Gilan Holding, and Metak. The exhibition is a debut for Amoris, Buta Group, and Modern Group. The exhibitors from Azerbaijan, the U.A.E., Russia, Turkey and Ukraine will present equipment for manufacturing and design of packaging, marking equipment, packaging materials, containers and finished packaging for various industries.

The show has been visited by the Minister of Agriculture Heydar Asadov, Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Mikhail Brown, Minister of Agriculture of Georgia Otar Danelia, Senator and Special Envoy for the Netherlands Energy Rene Van Der Linden, and the head of the Agrarian Reform and the Study of International Experience Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources of Turkmenistan Kerim Saparov.

At one site with World Food Azerbaijan, tow other exhibitions are held - Azerbaijan International Exhibition Agriculture Caspian Agro 2016 and Caspian International Exhibition Packaging, Tare, Label and Printing Ipack Caspian 2016. -----08D