June 30, 2000

The British Crop Protection Council is to stage a technical symposium on 26 and 27 February
2001 dealing with the challenges and opportunities presented by seed treatments. The
Symposium will be held at the Belfry Resort Hotel in Warwickshire, UK. It is being organised
against a rapidly changing background which has seen the recent loss of the organo-mercurials
and lindane and the accelerated development of alternatives be they chemical, physical or
biological. 

Seed Treatment: Challenges and Opportunities will bring together current knowledge of seed
treatment technology covering both major to minor crops and will look forward to the
developments of the next few years. It will include fungicidal, insecticidal and biological
treatments as well as application technology will be included in the programme. 

Offers of papers for this Symposium are sought and must include a 300 word summary which
should be sent to Dr Anthony Biddle, Chairman of the Programme Committee, c/o Processors
and Growers Research Organisation, Great North Road, Thornhaugh, Peterborough PE8 6HJ,
UK, Fax: +44 (0) 1780 783939, Email: anthony@pgro.co.uk by 28 July 2000. Offers of papers
can also be submitted via the BCPC web site at www.bcbc.org.

For a copy of the programme and registration form available in November contact British Crop
Protection Enterprises, 49 Downing Street, Farnham, Surrey GU9 7PH, UK Tel:+44 (0) 1252
733072, Fax: +44 (0) 1252 727194, Email: md@bcpc.org, Web: www.bcpc.org. 

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