10.00-18.00 Opening hours of the Fair

10.00 Demonstration of machinery
Tallinn-Tartu Road, Tiksoja forest

Participating firms:
10.05 Intrac Eesti AS
11.00 Sampo Group Oy
12.00 Komatsu Forest Oy
13.00 Autra OÜ

Free buses to the demonstration venue from the Fair Centre, Gate No 1

10.00-18.00 Exhibition “Present and Past of Estonian Rural Cultural Heritage“.
Exhibitors: Estonian Museum of Literature, Estonian National Museum, Heritage Society of Saaremaa, Ambla Forestry Cooperative. Fair Centre, Gallery

12.00 Opening ceremony of MAAMESS.
The President of the Republic of Estonia opens the Premier Rural Fair in Estonia.

12.15 Seminar “New tendencies in pig feeding“.
Presenter Helge Holm, Denmark. Aidamees OÜ. Fair Centre, Hall A, Room for seminars

13.00 Review of EU subsidies - area payments. PRIA booth No C-33

14.00-15.30 Seminar “ Let’s wipe out wild oat“.
Presenters Sulev Uusna (Estonian Institute of Farming), Jüri Laansalu (Inspection of Crop Production) and Jan-Roland Raukas (Ministry of Agriculture). Ministry of Agriculture. Fair Centre, Hall A, Room for seminars.
14.00 Review of the possibilities offered by a web-based map of arable land. PRIA booth No C-33

14.30 Introduction to the requirement for permanent grassland.
PRIA booth No C-33

14.00-17.00 Agricultural entrepreneurs meet with students - “Rural Labour Market - Needs and Opportunities”.
Organizer NPO IAAS-EAU, Estonian Agricultural University and the EAU Students Union Foundation. EAU Main Building, Kreutzwaldi Street 64

15.00 Introduction to EU area payments.
PRIA booth No C-33

16.00 Presentation of the National Development Plan Measure 3.4 integrated amelioration payment.
PRIA booth No C-33

FRIDAY, 22 April

9.00-18.00 Opening hours of the Fair

9.00-18.00 Exhibition “Present and Past of Estonian Rural Cultural Heritage“.
Exhibitors: Estonian Museum of Literature, Estonian National Museum, Heritage Society of Saaremaa, Ambla Forestry Cooperative. Fair Centre, Gallery

10.00 Lumbermen-disbranchers’ contest.
Maamess, outside territory

11.00 Presentation of the National Development Plan Measure 3.4 integrated amelioration payment.
PRIA booth No C-33

11.00-12.30 Seminar "Standards and structure of production in horticulture “.
Presenter Valdur Miller, Estonian Horticulturists’Association . Fair Centre, Hall A,Room for seminars

12.00 Introduction to EU area payments.
PRIA booth No C-33

13.00-15.00 Seminar “The effects of plant diseases and pests on crops, and their timely detection“.
Greenhouse pests ( lecturer Karme Petrutis), Strawberry diseases (lecturer Linda Brandt), and Potato root knot eelworm (lecturer Jelena Bukshtunovish). Centre for Agricultural Research, Laboratory of Plant Disease Control and Microbiology. Fair Centre, Hall A, Room for seminars

13.00 Presention of the NDP Measure 3.8 consultation subsidy.
PRIA booth No C-33

14.00 Seminar “Forest cluster and the Estonian economy“.
EFIA. EAU Main Building, Kreutzwaldi Street 64

14.00 Review of the possibilities offered by a web-based map of arable land.
PRIA booth No C-33

15.00-16.00 Seminar “Using forest, farming and horticultural machinery in a nature-conscious way“.
Presenters Enno Kalde, Meeme Karolin, Juhan Telgmaa. Fair Centre, Hall, Room for seminars

15.00 Introduction to EU area payments.
PRIA booth No C-33

16.00 Introduction of apprenticeship subsidy.
PRIA booth No C-33

SATURDAY 23 April

9.00-16.00 Opening hours of the Fair

9.00-16.00 Exhibition “Present and Past of Estonian Rural Cultural Heritage“.
Exhibitors: Estonian Museum of Literature, Estonian National Museum, Heritage Society of Saaremaa, Ambla Forestry Cooperative. Fair Centre, Gallery

11.00 Contact seminar of the Estonian Agrucultural University Alumi Association “
Estonian Agricultural University alumni - shapers of the Estonian countryside and economy “.
All alumni irrespective of their specility and year of graduation are invited to attend the event and learn about the Alumni Association’s past activities and future plans.
Fair Centre, Hall A, Room for seminars

11.00 Presentation of the NDP Measure 3.4 integrated amelioration payment.
PRIA booth No C-33

12.00 Review of the possibilities offered by a web-based map of arable land.
PRIA booth No C-33

12.30 Presentation of the National Develop-ment Plan Measure 3.4 integrated amelioration payment.
PRIA booth No C-33

13.00 Introduction to EU area payments.
PRIA booth No C-33

13.00-16.00 Seminar “ Organic agriculture“.
Fair Centre, Hall A, Room for seminars

About organic farming in Estonia (lecturer Margot Pomerants , Ministry of Agriculture),

Organic farming and the market (lecturer Merit Mikk, Centre for Ecological Technologies),

Organically grown food - treasure trove of health (lecturer Anne Luik, Estonian Agrucultural
University), My experience in organic farming
( lecturer Arvo Veidenberg (organic farmer).