RealUkraine AgriTours Canada Inc. Ukraine, 20300 Cherkassy rgn Unit 8, 10 Paisley Street Uman City, #6 Proletarska Str. Office #2 Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1H 2N6 Tel: 011-380-67470-1790 Tel: 1-519-826-4077 Fax: 011-380-4744-30661 Fax: 1-519-826-5244 Direct: 011-380 4744-6756 Cell: 1-519-241-4900 Contact: Mila Yashchuk Contact Richard Buck Date: 29.08.2013 Name: Agricultural tour for Michigan Farm Bureau Federation Contact people: Bob Boehm / Ken Nye / (Richard Buck) Direction: Kyiv– Bila Tserkva – Mankivka – Kherson – Odesa Registration number: #0424 J – RB3 Day 1 ( /L/D ) overnight in Kyiv 08.09.2013 13:05 – Arrival to the international "Boryspil" airport. 13:30 – Transfer to Kyiv. 14:00 – Lunch on the way “Kozatskiy stan’ 16:00 – Check-in the hotel **** President http://www.president-hotel.com.ua/en/ 17:00 – Kyiv city tour. During the excursion you see Golden Gate, Saint Sophia Cathedral , Sophia Square, B.Khmelnuckyi monument, Andriivska church, National Bank of Ukraine, feudal castle, Chocolate house, Klovskyi Palace. 20:00 – Dinner at the restaurant “Barkas” Day 2 (B/L/D) overnight in Chernigiv 09.09.2013 07:00 – Breakfast at the hotel restaurant. 08:00 – Departure to the hotel Dnipro http://www.dniprohotel.ua/en/confercehalls/leda-hall DNIPRO HOTEL 1/2 Khreshchatyk Str., Kyiv, 01001, Ukraine. Leda Conference Hall 2nd floor of the hotel 09:00 – Meeting with representative of American embassy in Ukraine. The theme "Agriculture in Ukraine". (at the hotel Dnipro) 11:00 – Meeting with the representative of Ministry of Agriculture of Ukraine (at the hotel Dnipro) 13:00 – Lunch at the restaurant “Mafia” , which is located at the main street of Kyiv - Khreshchatyk 15:00 – Visit to Ukrainian department of Pioneer Hi-Bred that is a part of DuPont business. In Ukraine company distribute plant-protecting agents and seeds of Pioneer. 16:30 – Meeting with representatives of Myronivskyi Khliboproduct (MHP). IT IS A LEADER IN THE UKRAINIAN POULTRY MARKET WITH AROUND 50% OF INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION AND 33% OF DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION WITH ONE OF THE STRONGEST FOOD BRANDS “NASHA RIABA”. 100% of poultry processed at own facilities. Poultry production sector includes 5 broiler chicken farms, two breeder farms with facilities for producing hatching eggs. Our 11 distribution centers and refrigerated delivery vehicles enable us to deliver our products, chilled as well as frozen, to our customers. 18:00 – Departure to Chernigiv 19:00 – Dinner on the way “Stara Praga” Brovary 22:00 – Check in the hotel VITA PARK SHISHKINN http://vitapark.com/en/shishkin/general-information- about-the-resort.html Day 3 (B/L /D) overnight in Kyiv 10.09.2013 07:00 – Breakfast at the hotel restaurant 07:50 – Departure to the farm 10:30 – Visiting beef farm «Agricor holding» (29 000ha of land, including 7 000 ha of pasture and meadow near the rivers; cereals silo for 110 t capacity, 3236 heads of beef breading cattle, 1151 caws, breeds: Simmental, Aberdeen Angus, Charollais and Limousine) 12:00 – Departure to the another technical visit 12:30 – Lunch on the way “Borzna” 16:30 – Visiting "Ukrainian Milk Company" LTD & Biogas plant (14,000 ha of land; Herd size 6,653 heads, Dairy herd size 3,200 heads; Breed: Holstein; Average milk yield per cow/year 9,000 kg; Fat 3.8 %; Protein 3.2 %; SCC 160,000; Bacteria count 40,000; Milkings per day 3; Milking parlor - Parallel 2x36, Delaval – 2 parlors; Days in milk 185; Number of cows per milker 40; Pregnant cows 60%; Semen dozes per conception 2.65; Milk price 3.60; Ingredients: Maize silage 18, Alfalfa haylage 10, Barley 1.5; Grass hay 1.0; Maize 5.5; Oats 1.5; Soybean meal 1.0; Sunflower meal 2.0; Rape meal 0.5) Biogas plant - 400 tons of liquid manure per day humidity 93%, manure extraction "flesh-flow", 2 cogeneration units: 625 kWh electricity + 686 kWh heat, 330 kWh electricity + 395 kWh) 17:30 – Transfer to Kyiv 19:00 – Check in the hotel **** President http://www.president-hotel.com.ua/en/ 20:00 – Dinner at the restaurant Day 4 (B/L /D) overnight in Bila Tserkva 11.09.2013 07:00 – Breakfast at the hotel restaurant. 07:50 – Check out the hotel. 08:00 – Departure to Myronivka 10:30 – Visiting "Kyiv-Atlantik-Ukraine". It is USA/Ukrainian/Danish joint venture, leased around 3000 ha. These lands are used for soybeans, wheat, corn, peas, barley, beets, triticale, rape, alfalfa, lupine etc. production. http://www.kau.kiev.ua/index.php?page=home&hl=en_US 12:30 – Lunch on the way Myslyvets Myronivka 15:00 – Visit to the Salyvonivskyi sugar beet plant. They are 140 years old. Daily capacity of sugar beets - 5 thousand tons per day 17:30 – You will have meeting with the member of Ukrainian pig producers association and visit to the pig farm Elita Ltd. Breeding pigs of Rattlerow Seghers firm (England) were imported by Elita three times—in 2004, 2006 and in 2009. The quality of Rattlerow Seghers genetic material is known in many European countries and lets to receive high-quality pigs. Elita Ltd has a status of a breeding farm in rearing Large White. Besides, it rents 1,300ha of land, where wheat, barley, sugar beets, buckwheat, and soybean are planted. But the main brunch of the farm is breeding high- production animals. Currently, the three departments of "Elite" keep 4000 pigs. 19:30 – Check in hotel City Park http://www.citypark-hotels.com/bila-tserkva-hotel 20:30 – Dinner at the restaurant Day 5 (B/L /D) overnight in Man’kivka 12.09.2013 07:00 – Breakfast at the hotel. 08:00 – Check out the hotel. 10:00 – Visiting Ukrainian department of German farm machinery company "Ropa". It produces sugar beet harvesters and cleaner/loaders. In Ukraine company is represented as service- and sales department. 12:00 – Short excursion excursion around Zhashkiv stud farm. http://paradeallure.com/about/?lang=en 12:30 – Lunch on the territory of the complex 14:00 – Departure to Uman 16:00 – Visiting Uman greenhouse complex. Today it has 35.15 ha and operates the most up-to- date greenhouses of European type, in which the latest innovations and achievements in growing vegetables under cover are used. They include the innovative construction of greenhouses themselves allowing to increase luminous flux for more than 10% as compared with greenhouses of previous generations, complex computer-aided system of microclimate support, energy-saving technology of using greenhouse gases, and many other unique and innovative solutions. 17:30 – Meeting with the representatives of Ukrainian Dairy Association. 19:30 – Departure back to Man’kivka 21:00 – Dinner at the restaurant Kolyba 22:30 – Check in the hotel *** Vita Park Aquadar http://vitapark.com/en/akvadar/general-information-about- the-hotel.html Day 6 (B/L/D) Overnight in Mykolaiv 13.09.2013 07:00 – Breakfast at the hotel. 08:00 – Check out the hotel and departure to Pervomaysk 10:00 – Excursion around Strategic Missile Forces museum http://www.rvsn.com.ua/en/ 12:30 – Lunch on the way Bogopol Pervomaysk 14:30 – Visiting fruit ranch "Pidgurievske". It is a part of corporation "Sadvynprom" – professional non- governmental organization of fruit and berry producers. The farm has 130 ha of land where grows pears, plums, apricots, apples (seedling stocks M-9, MM-106 imported from Germany and Belgium), 2500 of trees per 1 ha. The farm uses drop irrigation systems. 16:00 – Transfer to Kherson. 19:00 – Check in the Reikartz River Mykolaiv hotel http://www.reikartz.com/en/hotels/nikolaev 20:00 – Dinner at the restaurant Hutorok Day 7 (B/L /D) Overnight in Odesa 14.09.2013 07:00 – Breakfast at the hotel 08:00 – Transfer to the technical visits. 10:00 – Visiting Chumak company – national-wide company, one of the biggest food producers of Ukraine. Chumak serves consumers with ketchup and other varieties of sauces, mayonnaise, tomato paste, juice, sunflower oil, canned vegetables, macaroni and pasta. http://en.chumak.com/ 12:30 – Lunch on the way. 15:30 – Visit to the department of Freedom Farm International group. (It consists of 40,000 hectares of soybeans, corn and wheat as well as a processing plant to process 12,000 metric tons of soybeans per year into animal feed and human consumption soy flour. The company also developed modern hog production, farrowing to finish, marketing 20,000 hogs per year.) 17:00 – Transfer to Odesa. 18:30 – Dinner on the way 22:00 – Check in Black Sea Park Shevchenko http://www.bs-hotel.com.ua/en/hotels-chain/park- shevchenko/park-shevchenko.html Day 8 (B/L /D ) Overnight in Kyiv 15.09.2013 07:00 – Breakfast at the hotel restaurant. 08:00 – Check out the hotel. 08:30 — Excursion to Odesa Privoz (It is the largest open market of Ukraine which appeared in a year after building the city itself. It sells all vitally needed supplies, it has everything). 09:00 — Guided city tour (Your visit will include masterpieces of architecture, such as famous Opera and Ballet theatre, designed by Viennese architects, Potiomkinskaya Stairs, Primorskiy boulevard, the One-wall building. You will enjoy the view of Sea Port Terminal from the upside of Potiommkinskaya Stairs, see the Monument to Duke De Richelieu - the founder of Odessa, and of course, you will learn the history, stories, and legends of Odessa.) 11:00 — Guided tour to Odesa Сommercial Sea Port (It is one of the largest ports of the Black and Azov Seas basins, located in the north-western part of the Black Sea on the historically founded merchant ways between East and West. The port is a leader in cargo handling volumes among the ports of Ukraine and the largest passenger port on the Black Sea.) 13:00 — Lunch at the restaurant, located in Odesa Commercial Sea Port “Kompot” 14:30 — Transfer to the Odesa international airport.