Sweet Cherry Days 2019 - Program

Wednesday 26 June 2019

8:00 – 9:30                 Registration

9:30 – 9:40                 Opening

9:45 – 11:15                Block 1 - Lectures

• Henryk Flachowsky, Germany

          The current state of the fruit breeding program at Dresden-Pillnitz

• Radek Vávra, Aleš Horna, Czech Republic

Sweet cherry trials at the Research and Breeding Institute of Holovousy

• Barbara Mila Novak, Italy

Towards high quality: the breeding program of the University of Bologna

11:15 – 11:30             Coffee break

11:30 – 12:30             Block 2- Lectures

• Isabel Mühlenz, Switzerland

    Swiss Cherry Production – real experience for growers

• Thomas Schwizer, Switzerland

    Irrigation of cherry orchards leading to success

12:30 – 13:30             Lunch break

13:30 – 14:00              Block 3 – Lecture

• Pavol Suran, Czech Republic

Sweet cherry varieties bred in Holovousy

14:00 – 16:15             Block 4

Sweet cherry degustation, tour in breeding orchards

16:15 – 17:15             Coffee break

                                   Social evening

18:30 – 21:00             Excursion to the ZOO Dvůr Králové - https://safaripark.cz/

From 21:00                            Dinner – Penzion za vodou - https://penzionzavodou.cz/

Thursday 27 June 2019

9:00 – 14.00                Technical tour (departure at 8:30 from Holovousy)