General information

This biennial conference represents a continuation of thirteen meetings, starting from 1990. It is intended to bring together European researchers working on topics interesting for organic fruit growing and consultants involved in organic fruit growing to discuss latest results with regard to the improvement of the production system of organic fruit growing. At the last meeting at February 18-20th 2008, nearly 100 scientists and consultants from 11 different countries met at Weinsberg for this purpose.

The intend is also to pool the informations in the proceedings and to make it available for a great number of European researchers, consultants and interested fruit growers.
Thus, the Proceedings of the last meetings you will find soon under "Proceedings" on this homepage.

Official Language

The official language is English. Simultaneous interpretation is not provided. It is therefore expected that authors are able to present their research more or less fluently in the English language.

The organizing committee

Consists of 12 persons from different European countries engaged intensively in research organic fruit growing working for research stations or organic associations.