Piraeus Bank is taking part in the 25th AGROTICA, the largest exhibition of agricultural machinery, equipment and supplies, hosted at the International Exhibition & Conference Centre in Thessaloniki from January 30 to February 2, 2014. Along with the Bank, present at the Exhibition will also be the "Excelixi" Centre for Sustainable Entrepreneurship, member of Piraeus Bank Group. The Centre designs and implements pioneering training programs and delivers consultancy in the emerging sectors of agricultural and green economy.
At the exhibition area of Piraeus Bank (Pavilion No 2, stand 29, 1st floor, Helexpo building) there will be specialised officers to provide information to visitors regarding the Group's services and products, that are intended for farmers and agricultural businesses, agricultural cooperatives, as well as businesses associated with the agricultural sector.
At a time of considerable changes and in the framework of its development policy, Piraeus Bank is consistently pursuing its activities in the area of Agricultural Credit. It supports the primary sector in practice, focusing on identifying and using opportunities in the agricultural and agriculture-related sectors. It places emphasis on Agricultural Entrepreneurship and development of collective actions, and suggests innovative solutions to deal with the key structural problems of Greek agriculture via Contract Farming. Given its experience and know-how, it offers a wide range of financial products and services, further focusing on innovation as well as technological and ecological lead.
A key priority of Piraeus Bank is to ensure the necessary liquidity for producers, through early collection of annual subsidies and organic farming aids of forthcoming years, as well as by participating in the Agricultural Business Fund, which will be the key funding tool and development lever for the agricultural sector. Thus, it will be possible to finance farmers' investments activities related to the modernisation of their farming operations, strengthening of organic farming and necessary turn to farming business. Piraeus Bank focuses its interest in the establishment of the emerging generation of young farmers, who will be the ones to introduce new technology and innovation into the agricultural sector. "Excelixi" contributes to this end via its remarkable work. Being present at the exhibition, it will inform visitors about its specialised programs and services, which are closed related with green business and modern agricultural development.
Exhibition visitors may pre-register via the organiser's website http://www.helexpo.gr/registration/index.asp. By simply navigating in the web page, they may print their accreditation and enter the exhibition free of charge. Those who will not follow this procedure, will pay an entrance fee of €7.