Photo: GFMM
The 2023
International Association of Operative Millers (IAOM) Eurasia Conference &
Expo was held from August 31 to September 1, 2023. The conference and expo were
held at the Halic Congress Center in Istanbul, Turkey.
With its 125-year history, the International Association of Operative Millers (IAOM) is the world's largest non-profit organization that brings together grain millers and trade representatives to develop education and training opportunities in industry-related areas of grain milling. With its 10 directorates in the United States and 4 other directorates in other parts of the world, IAOM offers an international forum for ideas, technical and educational opportunities, discovery of new products and services, and networking.
Photo: GFMM
IAOM's
Eurasian region consists of 32 countries with a population of over 2 billion
and a total economic volume of $7.1 trillion. At the same time, the world's
largest wheat producer and flour exporter is located in the region. Russia,
which is one of the top 5 wheat producers in the world with a production of
71.6 million tons, alone represents 10% of the world and 30% of the Eurasian
region's wheat production. Among these 32 countries are Ukraine with 25 million
tons, Kazakhstan with 16 million tons, and Turkey with 19 million tons of wheat
production. In this context, millers from Central and Eastern Europe, Baltic
countries, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Turkey, and other Central Asian
republics and countries of the Caucasus region participated.
In
addition, there was participation from the United States, Middle East, and
Africa regions. This conference and exhibition brings together many sector
stakeholders. such as grain, flour, pasta, bulgur, and feed producers and their
suppliers and vendors such as milling machinery suppliers, laboratory equipment
suppliers, traders, ingredient suppliers, packaging companies, grain companies,
Yiest companies, bakery product firms, industrial bread bakers, research
institutes and colleges and universities.
"Grain
Feed and Milling Magazine" published in Dhaka, the capital of
Bangladesh, was the media partner of the "(IAOM) Eurasia Conference &
Expo". Advisor Kazi Sarowar Uddin and Editor and Publisher Kazi Sanowar
Uddin of "Grain Feed & Milling Magazine" were present here.
- Kazi
Sanowar Uddin
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