Glacier FarmMedia – A group of Italian delegates, representatives and business leaders gathered at Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show as part of its Italy Agtech Roadshow that’s visiting locations in Ontario and Quebec. The group aims to raise awareness for Italian technologies and businesses in order to look for opportunities to help promote them in Canada.
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Roadshow attendees arrived by motor coach on the morning of Sept. 10 and were encouraged to tour the farm show site in Woodstock. They met later in the day for a networking event that heard introductions from several business leaders, including Marco Saladini, Trade Commissioner with the Italian Trade Agency.
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In an interview earlier in the day, Saladini offered, “I am very impressed by this show, by the organization, by the attendance, and I am eager to take a walk and figure out what could be the next steps for our programs supporting Italian companies and their interactions with [the] Canadian agricultural world.”
