Family day of strawberry

24.06.2017 Family day of strawberry

On June 24, 2017 in Pidgorysche village of Lviv Region on a field SOK “Agrofood” took place a day of field “Family day of strawberry”. The event was also supported by the Charity Fund of Agroholding “Mriya”, agricultural market “Shuvar”, group of companies T.B. Fruit (trade mark Galicia) and LLC “Gallfrost”. The partnership project “Development of strawberry cooperatives” is being implemented within the framework of cooperation of the Public Association “Innovative Agriculture and cooperatives”, ICF Community Wellbeing, “Danone Ecosystem Fund” (France), “Dantrade” (Netherlands), “Danone” in Ukraine and HeiferInternational (USA).
The first strawberry co-operative was created in 2011 on the basis of existing dairy cooperative “Losyatynskyi milk source” in Losyatyn village, and in 2012 were planted the first 10 hectares of strawberries.As of June 2017, the planted area put together 23.5 hectares, forecasting in 2017 is 200 tons.Currently the project cooperates with two co-operatives in Lviv and Ternopil Regions: SOK “Losyatynskyimilk source” and SOK “Agrofrut”. By the end of the project (beginning of 2018) it is planned to extend cooperation to at least two cooperatives and conduct training for at least another 200 farmers on the subject of growing practice of strawberry, quality and food safety, business planning and co-operative management.
Holiday, which took place on June 24, 2017, was organized in format of educational-entertainment festival, which allowed combining several directions:
The event was attended by more than 150 families with children.