ISHS Acta Horticulturae 97: VI Symposium on Horticultural Economics
FOREWORD |
| Author: | M. Carlsson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Abstract:
The Commission for Horticultural Economics has, as can be seen in the following table, since 1968 arranged six symposia.
When I look back at these different symposia, memories of different kinds turn up regarding participants, papers, town, countries and people. An analysis of the issues of Acta Horticulturae also gives an interesting survey of the development within horticultural economics. The papers from the last symposium in Leuven, Belgium, are presented in this issue of Acta Horticulturae. It covers as its forerunner a broad spectrum of subjects. It was natural tha subjects about the relations between the common market and countries outside was a main topic at a congress arranged close to the EEC headquarters in Brussels. Another topic stressed at this symposium dealt with management methods for practical use on individual firms. Many people from the advisory service in Belguim attented this section, which also, for the first time was arranged as a poster session. As in 1972 in Wageningen, the question of a closer cooperation between biologists and economics was also put on the programme. To the reader it might be of interest to compare the contributions with the papers presented in Acta Horticulturae no. 40 from Wageningen. The sixth symposium will also be remembered as a symposium which very much promoted the contact with the "sector of horticulture" in the host country.
The local organisation was conducted by committees with representatives of both official authorities and commercial organisations.
These representatives also took an active part in different sessions all of which were held in the comfortable buildings of the more than 550 years old Catholic University of Leuven. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
