“For a competitive and sustainable fruit growing”

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

To all our colleagues:

The Research Institute on Tropical Fruit Culture and the Agricultural

Enterprise Group from the Ministry of Agriculture from the Republic of Cuba
have the pleasure to call you to participate in the Fifth International
Symposium on Tropical and Subtropical Fruit Growing / IX International
Pineapple Symposium "FRUTICULTURA 2017", to be held from October
15 to 19th of 2017, in Hotel Nacional de Cuba, Havana City, Cuba.

In this new edition of the event, we look forward to show all the results Cuba
has in fruit growing. Also, to exchange with large-experienced prestigious
personalities of the fruit world, especially from pineapple crop management,
about technologies applied in other producer countries. This exchange must
contribute to improve fruit production, conservation, processing and
commercialization of tropical fruits, to facilitate food safety, the reduction of
rural poverty and the sustainable development of the participant countries.

ORGANIZER COMMITTEE

Honor Chairmanship
MSc. Frank Castañeda Santalla

Chairmanship
Dr. C. Guillermo Rafael Almenares Garlobo

Vice-Presidents
MSc. Arisbel Ferro Barrios, MSc. Alina Beltrán Castillo, MSc. Emilio Farrés
Armentero, Eng. Julio Gómez Moldón

Scientific Committee Fifth International Symposium on

Tropical and Subtropical Fruit Growing
Dra. Mayda Betancourt Grandal – Dr. Luis L. Vázquez Moreno – INISAV,
IIFT, Cuba Cuba
Dr. Miguel Ramos Leal – IIFT, Cuba Dr. Arnaldo Álvarez Brito – INAF,
Cuba
Dra. Lochy Batista Le Riverend – IIFT, Dra. Lianne Fernández Granda –

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Dr. Miguel Aranguren González – IIFT, Dra. Bárbara Ivette Tortosa Ferrer –
Cuba ONUDI, Cuba
MSc. Tania Mulkay Vitón – IIFT, Cuba MSc. Lester Hernández Rodríguez –
IIFT, Cuba

Scientific Committee IX International Pineapple Symposium

Dr. Domingo Haroldo Reinhardt - Dr. Duane Bartholomew – Universidad
EMBRAPA, Brasil de Hawaii, Hawaii, USA
Dr. Luis Pérez Vicente - INISAV, Cuba Dr. Alain Soler - CIRAD, Martinique
Dr. Aristoteles Pires de Matos - Garth Sanewski - DPA, Gobierno de
EMBRAPA, Brasil Queensland, Australia
Dr. Justo L. González Olmedo - Elmarie Rabi - ARC, Estación de
Bioplantas, Cuba Investigaciones Hluhluwe, Sudáfrica
Dra. Martha Hernández - Bioplantas, Dra. Miriam Isidrón Pérez - UNAH,
Cuba Cuba
MSc. Lester Hernández Rodríguez - Roberto A. Young- Productos
IIFT, Cuba Tropicales Dole, Honduras
Dra. Fernanda Vidigal Duarte Souza -
EMBRAPA, Brasil

Acta Horticulturae international editorial committee of the

IX International Pineapple Symposium
Dr. Domingo Haroldo Reinhardt - Dr. Duane Bartholomew – Universidad
EMBRAPA, Brasil de Hawaii, Hawaii, USA
Dr. Aristoteles Pires de Matos - Garth Sanewski - DPA, Gobierno de
EMBRAPA, Brasil Queensland, Australia
Dr. Alain Soler - CIRAD, Martinica Dr. Justo L. González Olmedo -
Bioplantas, Cuba
Dr. Luis Pérez Vicente - INISAV, Cuba Dra. Miriam Isidrón Pérez – UNAH,
Cuba

Executive Secretary
Dra. Juliette Valdés-Infante Herrero

Institutional Communication and Public Relations

MSc. Mónica Piniella Gutiérrez

Economy Management
Esp. Jorge Rodríguez Milián

International Collaboration and Agri-business

Eng. Ritzi Gonzalez Miret, Lic. Yaikiria Deus Montes

Organizers for field tour

MSc. Emilio Farrés Armenteros; MSc. Rolando Clavijo Izquierdo

Assurance and Services

Esp. Juan Carlos Díaz Acosta, Esp. Pedro Fernández Montoya

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 Professional Organizer of CUBANACÁN Travel Agency
Lic. Oscar López Betancourt

Contact for Organizer Committee correspondence:

Dra. Juliette Valdés-Infante Herrero
7th Avenue, #3005, e/30 y 32, Miramar, Playa, La Habana. Cuba.
FAX: (537) 204 6794. E-mail: fruticultura2017@iift.cu; mejoramiento@iift.cu
Phones: (537) 209-3585; (537) 206-6828

In the Website of the Research Institute on Tropical Fruit Culture

(www.fruticulturacubana.co.cu), in the InterAmerican Citrus Network (IACNET)
(www.riacnet.net) and in the International Society of Horticultural Sciences
(www.ishs.org) there is more information related with the Symposiums. In this
Websites it will be possible to download information and documents related with
the meeting.

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Scientific Sessions

 Genetic resources and breeding of fruit trees for food and nutritional
safety, agriculture and biodiversity
This session attend to conservation, propagation, characterization, evaluation,
biodiversity, breeding and management of phytogenetic resources, by
traditional and biotechnological methods, in natural and men management
ecosystems (collections, productive systems, farms, homely orchards).
Coordinators: Dra. Juliette Valdés-Infante Herrero mejoramiento@iift.cu; Dra.
Lianne Fernández Granda genetica1@inifat.co.cu; Lic. Yohailys Rodríguez
Alvarez mejoramiento3@iift.cu

 Sustainable and resilient management of fruit trees agro-ecosystems

This session attend to management technologies of resilient, organic, agro-
ecologic and conventional productive systems and its relation with climatic
change, physiology, alternative energy sources, familiar agriculture and limiting
yield factors.
Coordinators: Dra. Mayda Betancourt Grandal cambioclimatico@iift.cu, Dr.
Miguel Aranguren González miguel@citrovg.cu, MSc. Claro B. Moya Artiaga
tecnologia119@iift.cu, MSc. Rolando Clavijo Izquierdo grupotecnologia@iift.cu

 Phytosanitary surveillance and pest management

This session attend to diagnostic and characterization of virus and similar
pathogens, prokaryote and fungus; identification and biology of mites, insects,
phytophagous nematodes; disease vectors and natural enemies in fruit trees
and weeds; epidemiology; pest management and ambient-pest-plant
interaction; Alert systems for early detection, opportunely response and
prevention of the crisis caused by pets.
Coordinators: MSc. Inés D. Peña Bárzaga fitopatologia3@iift.cu; Dr. Miguel
Ramos Leal fitopatologia18@iift.cu; Dra. Caridad González Fernández
ecología@iift.cu; MSc. Maylin Rodríguez Rubial ecologia5@iift.cu.

 Post-harvest, Industrialization and Commercialization

This session attend to harvest technologies; physiological and/or
microbiological disorders; physiology of fruit maturity; biotechnology of fruit
post-harvest; emergent post-harvest technologies; process, products, sub-
products and industrial technologies; familiar agroindustry and minimum
processed products; sensorial and nutritive quality; containers and packaging;

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technologies of more cleaning productions; waste treatment; sources of
renewable energy related to fruit processing; quality management systems;
innocuousness; standardization; commercialization.
Coordinators: MSc. Tania Mulkay Vitón poscosecha@iift.cu, Eng. Sheyla Abreu
Sáez industria1@iift.cu, MSc. Zita M. Acosta Porta inocuidad@iift.cu

Workshops

 Pest of high impact for citrus culture, challenges in the Americas

This workshop attends to production systems of citrus certified material; as well
as researches results and management strategies of the citrus diseases
huanglongbing, variegated chlorosis, canker, leprosis, tristeza and black spot,
besides surveillance, prevention and risk of fruit flies.
Coordinators: MSc. Lester Hernández Rodríguez fitopatología@iift.cu; MSc.
Maritza Luis Pantoja bacteriología@iift.cu; Dra. Ana Margarita Manzano León
fitopatologia17@iift.cu

 Impact of Cleaner Productions in the fruit tree agro-industry

This workshop attends to Cleaner Productions and the development of familiar
mini-industry; technologies, process and clean products in the agro-industry;
recycle of fruit tree waste derived from industrial processing and post-harvest;
fertilizers.
Coordinators: Eng. Sheyla Abreu Sáez industria1@iift.cu; Dra. Bárbara Ivette
Tortosa Ferrer B.TORTOSAFERRER@unido.org; Eng. Eloy González García.

 Value chains and local development

This workshop attends to food and nutritional safety related with participative
and chain approach management; inter-sectorial articulation; types of
association (cooperatives); empowerment of rural woman in the agricultural
sector; losses and wastes in the different segments of the value chains.
Coordinators: MSc. Maruchi Alonso Esquivel onp-palma@iift.cu; Dra. Aymara
Hernández, Dr. Carlos M. Lopetegui Moreno onp-coordtecnica@iift.cu

 Status and conservation of agricultural phytogenetic resources

This workshop attends to the inventory and conservation status of agricultural
genetic resources collections; agricultural production diversification and the
increase of crops diversity for a sustainable agriculture; seed production and
distribution; creation and strengthening of national programs, networks and
information system of phytogenetic resources for nutrition and agriculture.
Coordinators: Dra. Lianne Fernández Granda genetica1@inifat.co.cu

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Under the aegis of the International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS)
http://www.ishs.org/symposium/591

Scientific Sessions

 Management of pineapple agro-ecosystems

This session attend to management technologies of resilient, organic, agro-
ecologic and conventional productive systems and its relation with climatic
change, physiology, alternative energy sources, familiar agriculture and limiting
yield factors.
Coordinators: Dr. Alain Soler; Dr. Justo González Olmedo; MSc. Emilio Farrés,
MSc. Zulay Castro

 Genetic resources, breeding and biotechnology

This session attend to conservation, propagation, characterization, evaluation,
biodiversity, breeding and management of phytogenetic resources, by
traditional and biotechnological methods in germplasm bank, productive
systems, farms and homely orchards.
Coordinators: Dra. Fernanda Souza, Dra. Miriam Isidrón Pérez, Dra. Daymara
Rodríguez Alonso; Dr. Romelio Rodríguez Sánchez

 Post-harvest, Industrialization and Commercialization

This session attend to harvest technologies; physiological and/or
microbiological disorders; physiology of fruit maturity; emergent post-harvest
technologies; process, products, sub-products and industrial technologies;
familiar agroindustry and minimum processed products; containers and
packaging; quality management systems; innocuousness; standardization;
commercialization.
Coordinators: Dra. Martha Hernández, MSc. Rodolfo Morales Pérez

 Plant protection
This session attend to diagnostic and characterization of virus and similar
pathogens, prokaryote and fungus; identification and biology of mites, insects,
phytophagous nematodes; disease vectors and natural enemies; epidemiology;
pest management and ambient-pest-plant interaction; alert systems for early
detection, opportunely response and prevention of the crisis caused by pets.
Coordinators: Dr. Aristóteles Pires de Matos, Dra. Rayza M. González, Dr. Luis
Pérez Vicente, MSc. Lester Hernández

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The event includes magisterial conferences, sessions for papers presentation
and discussion; workshops and guided tours to scientific institutions, fruit
groves, industries, mini industries and conditioning and packing houses for
tropical fruits.

Presentation of papers

The topics of the Symposiums will be presented and discussed in Scientific

Sessions and Workshops, both orally and in posters. Authors interested in
presenting a paper should send (only in electronic format) an abstract (up to
250 words) before May 31th, 2017, together with the registration form
available in www.fruticulturacubana.co.cu and in www.riacnet.net.

Later on, when the Scientific Committee of the Fifth International

Symposium on Tropical and Subtropical Fruit Growing confirms the
approval of the abstract, you will have de possibility to send a complete paper
(up to 10 letter type sheets) before July 3th, 2017. The selected papers will be
published in CitriFrut Journal, edited by the Research Institute on Tropical
Fruit Culture, which editorial standards are available in the website
www.fruticulturacubana.co.cu.

The papers selected by the Scientific Committee of the IX International

Pineapple Symposium will be published in a special edition of the journal Acta
Horticulturae (www.actahort.org) and will be reviewed by an International
Editorial Committee. The articles should be written in English or Spanish
language, according to the guidelines available at http://www.ishs.org/authors.
For papers in English it is not obliged to also include an abstract in Spanish. For
papers in Spanish it is obliged to also include an extended abstract in
English, the English title and the English keywords next to the Spanish
abstract, title and keywords.

Presentation standards for abstracts and posters

Abstract

For the V International Symposium on Tropical and Subtropical Fruit

Growing, abstracts should be submitted in Spanish and English language; 10
points Arial letter; and a maximum extension of 250 words. Also, should be
accompanied with the following data:

Title of the paper

Complete Name and surname of the authors (indicating which will present the
paper)
Country, Institution, address, phone, fax, E-mail

The text should contain objectives, actual status of the thematic, methods and
techniques used and principal results. Also, at the end should include three key
words to identify the thematic of the paper.

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For the IX International Pineapple Symposium, abstracts should be
submitted in Spanish or English language and all abstracts and full text articles
must be submitted using ROSA - Responsive Online System for Acta
Horticulturae submission and review, available in
www.actahort.org/members/symposiar?nr=591, following the author manual
instructions located in www.ishs.org/sites/default/files/page-
documents/onlinesubmissionauthorsguide.pdf

The text should contain objectives, actual status of the thematic, methods and
techniques used and principal results.

Poster

Size: The posters should have a total area no longer that 0.90 m (wide) x 1.00
m (long).

Title and filiation: Letter for the title should be minimum 2.5 cm high and with
contrasting color. Also, should contain Name of the authors, institution and
address for the correspondence.
Text: The headlines for tables and graphics, as well as the text, should be at
least 1 cm high, to permit its reading from a 2 m distance. The writing of
complex paragraphs and sentences should be avoided.

Figures, tables and photos: The letters and numbers included in the figures,
tables and photos have the same rules that the text.

The official languages of the Symposium: Spanish & English

Registration fee

Fifth International IX International Pineapple

Symposium on Tropical Symposium
and Subtropical Fruit
Growing
International 350 CUC* ISHS Members: 350 EUROS
Delegates Non ISHS Members: 430 EUROS
Students (not 200 CUC 250 EUROS
graduated)
Accompanying 150 CUC 100 EUROS
persons
National 350 CUP 350 CUP*
Delegates

*CUC Cuban Convertible Peso (1CUC=0,96USD; 1CUC=1,10 EUROS). To USD, an additional

10% charge it’s applied. This change tax can vary daily.
*CUP Cuban Peso

The registration fee includes:

• Program of the event
• Abstract (CD-R)
• Participation Certificate
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• Coffee break
• Lunch
• Welcome cocktail
• Closing ceremony
• For the participants to the IX International Pineapple Symposium, also
includes, the special edition of the journal Acta Horticulturae and the
technical tour (but not includes the hotel accommodation during the tour) in
the Ciego de Avila province.
• For the participants in the Fifth International Symposium on Tropical and
Subtropical Fruit Growing, the registration fee does not include the
technical tour, which has and additional cost of 35 CUC. These must be paid
during the registration the first day of the Symposium. You can ask for your
participation in the technical tour when you fill the registration form or through
the official Email of the event fruticultura2017@iift.cu.

Transportation of delegates to the event

Copa Airlines, the official carrier of the event, offers to all the participants which
ask their reservations in their offices, an Special Discount of 10% of the public
price available in the 32 destinies of 20 countries of South, Central and North
America and the Caribbean. To apply for this discount, you can access to the
Copa Airlines website (www.copaair.com) and to introduce the discount code
B7229 for FRUTICULTURA 2017 in the link “Promotional Code”.

Hotels Reservations

For hotels reservations, participants in the event must contact with the traveling
agency CUBANACAN, which will guarantee your stay in Cuba and the
participation in the event. We recommend making the reservation in the
selected hotel before April 15th, to guarantee accommodation availability for the
date in which the symposiums will take place.

CUBANACAN Events has designed a tourist package that includes:

 Transfer Airport - Hotel – Airport
 Support in airport and hotels
 Daily accommodation with breakfast and dinner included

PRICES/ CUC / PERSON / DAILY

HOTEL DOUBLE ROOM X SINGLE

PERSON

Hotel Nacional de Cuba***** 280.00 330.00

Hotel Tryp Habana Libre***** 200.00 345.00
Hotel Capri**** 175.00 270.00
Hotel Presidente**** 125.00 165.00
Hotel Vedado / St. John´s*** 90.00 120.00
Hotel Iberostar Mojito Cayo 150.00 170.00
Coco Ciego****

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The reservation in the Iberostar Mojito Cayo Coco Ciego Hotel is only for the
participants in the technical tour of the IX International Pineapple Symposium.
The accommodation in the night included during the technical tour will be in this
hotel, located in Cayo Coco, in the north of Ciego de Avila province.

Booking requests for the hotel should be sent to:

Lic. Oscar Lopez Betancourt
CUBANACAN Traveling Agency
Phone: (53)-7- 206-9590 al 93 Ext.: 248
(53)-7-204-65-66 Ext.: 248
E-mail: comercial1.mercado4@avc.vin.tur.cu

Visa request
For your participation in the scientific sessions, workshops and cultural
activities of the event, you must ask for a tourist visa at the Cuban consulate of
your countries, traveling agencies, airlines or directly in the airport when you
arrive to our country.
I you one to participate in the visits to Cubans scientific institutions and
technical tour, you must ask to the Executive Secretary of the Organizing
Committee (fruticultura2017@iift.cu) for an event visa, which is going to be
processed and its cost will be assumed by the Cuban Organizing Committee.

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