Lee Wilson of ACCORD and Ronaldo Ernesto Scucato

Accord welcomed a delegation of co-operative leaders from the Organisation of Brazilian Cooperatives (OCB) during the week commencing 20 February 2005.

Federation President, Mr Ronaldo Ernesto Scucato, and Vice-president Mr Celso Luiz Claro de Oliveira, lead a 19 member study tour from the Brazilian cities of Minas Gerais, Sao Paulo, and Goias.

Co-operative leadership programs incorporating study tours and exchanges are an important part of professional development in the cooperative sector in Brazil. The group?s primary objective was to look at new ways of doing things in the dairy industry in Australia and to exchange ideas on best practice with their Australian counterparts.

The tour included visits to dairy farms and meetings with professionals in the dairy industry in Melbourne and Sydney.

Priscilla Magalhães Gomes Lins and Andréa Mageste Damazio at the ACCORD seminar

Robert Pettit, Dairy Australia, coordinated the program in Victoria. And a dinner was hosted by and Allan Burgess, Chairman Australian Dairy Industry Council and President Australian Dairy Farmers.

• Farm visit organised by Murray Goulburn Co-operative Co Ltd, and Dairy Australia included generic farm programs. Genetics, milk quality and other farm issues were main topics of discussion.
• A visit was organised to the Department of Primary Industry?s (DPI) Research Institute, Ellinbank, followed by a visit to a supermarket at Cranbourne.
• In Sydney the group attended a seminar hosted by ACCORD at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). View the seminar program (PDF 57KB).
• Keith Rosskelly organised a visit to Dairy Farmers Factory, Hexham in the Hunter valley, NSW
• Delegates attended a reception hosted by Ms Christina Talaco, President of the Brazilian Chamber of Commerce.

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