{"id":199205,"date":"2025-10-03T09:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T09:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/199205\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T09:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T09:38:10","slug":"ibo-summit-2025-attracts-575-global-blueberry-industry-participants-from-32-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/199205\/","title":{"rendered":"IBO Summit 2025 attracts 575 global blueberry industry participants from 32 countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three-day event in South Africa showcased the country\u2019s production potential while addressing key industry challenges including trade, sustainability, genetics, and logistics, with four countries already expressing interest in hosting the next summit<\/p>\n<p class=\"picture\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IBO Blueberries\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/143657_iboblueberries_633774.jpg\"   loading=\"eager\" class=\"lazyloaded\" width=\"2298\" height=\"1532\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The International Blueberry Organization (IBO) brought the global blueberry industry together last month for three days of knowledge-sharing, networking, and collaboration at the IBO Summit 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Summit brought together 575 participants from 32 countries, including growers, exporters, importers, retailers, researchers, and industry leaders from across the world.<\/p>\n<p>The event highlighted South Africa\u2019s and southern Africa\u2019s growing role as a producer, key exporter, and strategic hub in the international blueberry market.<\/p>\n<p>Panels and presentations addressed key topics such as trade, sustainability, new genetics, market dynamics, logistics, and labour challenges, while exclusive field visits showcased South Africa\u2019s production potential and innovative farming practices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe IBO Summit once again demonstrated the strength and unity of our global blueberry community,\u201d said\u00a0Mario Steta, IBO chairman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dSouth Africa offered the perfect setting to reflect on how far we\u2019ve come as an industry \u2013 and how collaboration, innovation, objective and transparent discussions, and a shared purpose are shaping and will continue to shape the next chapter of sustainable growth,\u201d he outlined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHosting the Summit in South Africa was an incredible opportunity to showcase our country\u2019s progress and potential within the global blueberry industry,\u201d outlined Brent Walsh, CEO of Berries ZA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dWe\u2019re proud to have welcomed so many international delegates and to have shared our commitment to quality, innovation, and collaboration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Plans are already underway for the next edition of the Summit, with four countries expressing their interest in hosting the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThe IBO views this strong level of enthusiasm as one of the clearest signs of how the blueberry sector continues to positively impact global production and market regions, and of the industry\u2019s strong potential in the years ahead,\u201d the organisation added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three-day event in South Africa showcased the country\u2019s production potential while addressing key industry challenges including trade, sustainability,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[200,79],"class_list":["post-199205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-genetics","tag-genetics","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}