After a three-year break in Nantes, the plant fair was to return to Anjou in 2020 but the health crisis decided otherwise. The organizers had to reschedule the next edition, twice canceled, at the end of the year … 2022.
The official return of the Salon du Végétal to Angevin lands was initially scheduled for September 2020. For this new school year, dates had even been set (from Tuesday 8 to Thursday 10). Unfortunately, six months earlier, the health crisis caused by the Covid-19 epidemic had led the organizers of the event to review their plans. The physical event canceled, they had opted for a digital version on September 14 and 15… while waiting for a clearing up. At the end of the summer, a less gloomy outlook seemed to be emerging for 2021: it is in fact next February (the 10th and 11th) that the traditional meeting was to be held, in sanitary conditions than anything else. the world imagined very strict.
Unfortunately, it is still missed: the containment and then the curfew decreed by the State in the face of the resurgence of the virus got the better of this edition. Unsurprisingly, the BHR (Regional Horticultural Office) and Destination Angers, co-organizers of this show, had to resolve to cancel it and postpone it to 2022, probably in the last quarter.
In the meantime, industry players will be invited to a big party on Thursday, September 9, 2021 at the Angers Congress Center. Failing to offer major commercial outlets, this meeting will make it possible to maintain the link between the decision-makers of the territory, the entire sector and the companies. It will also provide the opportunity to discuss upcoming challenges in the sector and to outline the show program for 2022.
After a three-year relocation to Nantes, where the BHR hoped to ramp up the event, the vegetable fair was eagerly awaited in Angers, where it was born almost 40 years ago.
His return to the fold was recorded in September 2019 by the signing of a three-year contract between the various stakeholders, responsible for the BHR on one side, the City of Angers, Angers Loire Métropole and the Regional Council on the other. A reunion that the president of the BHR Thierry Browaeys, president had greeted as “obvious”. And to announce its intention to “refocus the event on plants” itself, by means of a program articulated around major themes: seeds, health, well-being, eco-responsibility.
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