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Welcome to 4 International Scientific Conference

Dear Participants

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For us, the organizers of the 4 International Conference 'Agrobiodiversity to Improve
Nutrition, Health and Quality of Human and Bees Life', it is a great pleasure and as well
as a great honour to welcome you to Slovakia, the ancient city Nitra and on the Slovak

University of Agriculture in Nitra.
The Congress Centre of the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra will be the venue
of scientific and academic discussions, presentations, interventions, confrontation of opinions,
exchange of knowledge and experience, initialing new contacts and meetings of cooperating
members of AgroBioNet International network.
The Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, represented by the Institute
of Biodiversity Conservation and Biosafety and the M.M. Gryschko National Botanical Garden
at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv, represented by the Department
of Plant Introduction, initiated in 2013 the international conferences about biodiversity and
agrobiodiversity and they want to continue and develop them.
The reason is very simple. The theme of International Conferences focused on the
conservation and usage of agrobiodiversity to improve nutrition, health and quality of life
is the foundation of the present civilization. Therefore, the issue brings together not only
all-conference participants but also other botanists, researchers, breeders, seedsmen,
growers, processors and other professions they recognize, using not only traditional plant
species but also forgotten, less-used and less-known species for food security, food safety and
resolving the other needs of civilization.
This is evidenced by the very extensive focus of the presented knowledge and results
achieved in the solution of research and development projects of research and academic
institutions processed in the form of abstracts in the submitted publication of this year's

international conferences.
Researchers' efforts to conduct experiments aimed at preserving, identifying, evaluating,
expanding and exploiting the unique phenomenon of biodiversity and the still undervalued
use of agri-biodiversity are also evidence that, despite the lack of fund, technical equipment,
and national governments understanding, researchers present extensive original knowledge

and results.
On behalf of the organizers of this conference, we wish all participants a pleasant stay
in Slovakia, in the city Nitra and at the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra. I wish to
all authors and co-authors of the presented scientific publications a successful presentation
in a creative atmosphere.
The International Conference organizers also thank all the other co-organizers
of the international conference for their help and support!

Assoc. Prof. Ján Brindza
Institute of Biodiversity Conservation and Biosafety,
Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra

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September 11–13, 2019