BPOA going from strength to strength

摘要

The British Protected Ornamentals Association has had a busy winter. Secretary David Fox says that the Association's Home Grown campaign has been giving a further boost during the last year to an already rising trend in membership, now 170 strong. Atthe 2012 Four Oaks Show, over twenty exhibitors displayed the Home Grown logo on their stands. And at the BPOA's most recent event, chairman Ian Riggs announced that the latest grower recruit to the campaign will this year be sending to retailers 1.6 million pots bearing the logo. The record of the Association's last six months speaks for itself. A one-day meeting in Stoneleigh filled the very recently completed NFU Conference Centre to capacity. The two-day annual conference in February, this year near Oxford, attracted over seventy members. For poinsettia growers, there were two meetings, held in conjunction with the HDC.