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Upcoming conferences
The Hemp Industries Association
will hold their annual meeting Convention 97 for HIA members and their
guests from Monday, October 6 through Thursday, October 9 at the Isis Oasis retreat in
Sonoma county California. For information contact the Hemp Industries Association,
Post Office Box 1080, Occidental, CA 95465 USA, TEL: (500) HIA-HEMP, (707) 874-3648,
e-mail: info@thehia.org.
The CannaBusiness 97
Cannabis trade show and symposium will be presented in Castrop-Rauxel, Germany from
September 19 through 21, 1997. The first CannaBusiness fair held in 1996 was a great
success. For additional information contact Ms. Annie Riecken at
Fax. +31 (0)20 673 59 10 or
e-mail: annier@xs4all.nl.
A Flax and Other Bast Plants Symposium
will convene in Poznan, Poland from September 30 through October 1, 1997. The
symposium is divided into three programs: non-textile applications, a festival of
harvesting and processing machines, and bast fiber plants in recultivation of polluted
areas. Also the FAO European Cooperative Research Network on Flax and other Bast
Plants is planning a workshop entitled Bast Fiber Plants Today and
Tomorrow to be held in St. Petersburg, Russia June 22 through 23, 1998.
For additional information on both events contact Dobroslawa Gucia, Institute of
Natural Fibres, Science Information Centre, Poznan, Poland, fax (4861) 417-830,
e-mail: dgucia@iwn.inf.poznan.pl.