UBM Grain Inc. is a grain trading company with activity both on the local market as well as internationally, mainly within the EU. Main trading items are grains (wheat, corn, barley) and oilseeds (sunflower seed and rapeseed) with a turnover of over 700.000 months per year. They mainly purchase directly from the farmers and aim to sell to the end-users and/or trading companies. Any manipulation (storage, fumigation, transport, quality control) is carried out on their behalf during the storage period. Main logistic routes are via trucks, trains and barges via inland waterways.
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Coordinator of the project.
In charge of the development of the new ULV-larvicide product.
In charge of the development of the new application technology.
In charge of assessing insect resistance in grain storage management.
In charge of the overall impact assessment (the economic and social impact).
In charge of the product validation (toxicology and ecotoxicology).
In charge of the support of the testing and validation of the ULV-larvicide product.
In charge of the ecological Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).
In charge of the support of the development of both the product and the technology.
INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS
Dr Manoj Nayak
Dr Manoj Nayak is a Principal Research Entomologist and Leader of the Post-harvest Grain Protection Team of Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Christos Athanassiou
Christos Athanassiou is a Professor of Entomology, at the University of Thessaly, Greece, since 2010.
emanuele mazzoni
Emanuele Mazzoni is an Associate Professor in General and Applied Entomology (SSD AGR/11) in the Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.