CIGR Newsletter No 47
CIGR-SPONSORED ACTIVITIES
A chronological list of events in the field of agricultural engineering can also be found in our Calendar of Events which can be consulted on CIGR's Website:
2nd Inter-Regional Conference on
Environment-Water
"Emerging Technologies for Sustainable Land Use and Water Management"
This conference will be held on 1-4 September, 1999 in Lausanne, Switzerland.
With the Patronage of: CIGR/Section 1: Land & Water Use; EurAgEng/SIG 20: Soil and Water; ICID/ European working group: Land and Water Use; and organized by the Swiss Association of Agricultural Engineering, Irrigation and Drainage; the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-EPF (Land Improvement, Water use and Management Laboratories Lausanne-IATE and Zürich-ILWAM).
Main topics:
1. New trends in modelling
2. New meteorology, development and communication techniques
3. New tools for evaluation, visualization & decision making
New management policies and practices
Further information and registration form can be obtained
from: http://dgrwww.epfl.ch/HYDRAM/envirowater99
or the E-mail address: envirowater99@epfl.ch
International Conference "30th Anniversary of the Faculty of Agricultural Engineering of the Slovak Agricultural University in Nitra,
Slovak Republic"
This conference will be held on 8-10 September, 1999 in Nitra, Slovak Republic.
The scientific programme will include:
1. Presentation on 30 years of science and research at the Faculty of Agricultural Engineering
2. Mechanization of crop production
3. Mechanization of animal production
4. Farm power and Design of agricultural machines.
Languages: Slovak and English.
Conference fee: $100.00.
For further information, please contact:
Conference Committee, Ladislav Nozdrovicky,
Dept. of Machines and Production Systems,
Faculty of Agricultural Engineering, Slovak Agricultural University, Tr. A. Hlinku 2, SK-949 76 Nitra,
Slovak Republic.
Fax.: +421 87 417 003;
E-mail: dmf@uniag.sk
EFITA/99 - 2nd European Conference of the "European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment (EFITA)"
This conference will be held on 27-30 September, 1999 at the University of Bonn, Germany.
This event is co-sponsored by CIGR and IFAC. It is the objective of the conference to provide a meeting place for all scientists and professionals with interest in the design, development, use and management of information and communication systems in and for agriculture and extension, agribusiness and the food industry, agricultural policy and the environment.
Further information can be obtained through the EFITA/99 conference secretariat or through the websites of EFITA www.efita.dk or www.efita.org and the EFITA/99 conference www.dainet.de/efita99
EFITA/99 conference secretariat: Ms. U. Rickert,
c/o Dept. of Agriculture Economics, University of Bonn, Meckenheimer Allee 174, D-53115 Bonn, Germany.
Tel.: +49-228-733500, Fax: +49-228-733431,
E-mail: efita99@uni-bonn.de
CIGR/EurAgEng Workshop
"Agricultural Transport"
This workshop will be held on 4-6 October, 1999 in Giessen, Germany.
This event is organized by CIGR Section III and is co-sponsored by EurAgEng.
Topics will include:
1. Technical development in handling and transport of agricultural goods
2. Agricultural transport management; electronics and GPS
3. Practical transport organization of farmers and agricultural enterprises
4. Legislation governing rural transport
5. Infrastructure
Language: English
The registration fee is DM 180,-.
Contact address:
Secretariat, Dr.-Ing G. Weise, CIGR Workshop Agricultural Transport, Institut fuer Landtechnik, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Braugasse 7, D-35390 Giessen, Germany.
Tel.: +49-641-99-37211, Fax: +49-641-99-37209
E-mail: cigr.workshop@agrar.uni-giessen.de
International Workshop on
"Modelling of Transport Processes in Soil at Various Scales in Time and Space"
This workshop will be held on 24-26 November, 1999 in Leuven, Belgium.
It is organized by the Institute of Land and Water Management of the Katholieke Universiteit of Leuven, in co-operation with CIGR, EurAgEng, IAHR and ICID.
The key topics are:
1. Modelling transport processes
2. Identification of parameters describing the transport phenomenon
3. Application of modelling: potential and limitations
Language: English
More information can be obtained from the Secretariat:
IUPWARE, Institute for Land and Water Management
Vital Decosterstraat 102, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
Tel.: +32-16-329745, Fax: +32-16-329760,
E-mail: iupware@agr.kuleuven.ac.be
http://www.kuleuven.ac.be/kuleuven/newsnl.htm
International Workshop on Drying and Improvement of Shea and Aiele
This workshop will be held on 1-3 December, 1999 in Ngaoundere, Cameroon.
Organized by the Cameroonian Association of Agricultural Engineering (ACAGER) and the National Advanced School of Agro-Process Industries (ENSAI) of the University of Ngaoundere in collaboration with other organizations: CIGR, AFGR, AIRE, AUPELF-UREF.
Topics include:
1. Agroforestry and domestication
2. Diology, plant improvement and protection
3. Chemistry, biochemistry and nutrition
4. Technology
5. Equipment and economic aspects
6. Other contributions
Registration: before 30 Sep 1999: 200 $ US
after 30 Sep 1999: 250 $ US
Reception of communication: 30 Sep 1999
For further information, please contact: Prof. C. Kapseu, ENSAI-IUT, University of Ngaoundere,
BP 455 - Ngaoundere, Cameroon
Tel.: 00 237 25 27 51; Fax: 00 237 25 25 99;
E-mail: kapseu@syfed.cm.refer.org
'99 International Conference on Agricultural Engineering - ('99 ICAE)
This conference will be held on 14-17 December, 1999 in Beijing, P.R. China.
Topics:
* Power and machinery, agricultural mechanization
* Soil and water engineering, water-saving irrigation technology
* Farm electronics, information technology and precision agriculture
* Rural structures, bio-environment and waste treatment engineering
* Post-harvest technology and food engineering
* Biomass engineering and rural energy
* Aquacultural technology Agricultural engineering education development
* Strategies for sustainable agriculture
* Workshops on special subjects.
Language: English
For further information, please contact: '99 ICAE
P.O.Box 101, East Campus, China Agricultural University, Qinghua Donglu, Beijing 100083, China
E-mail: icae@bjaeu.edu.cn
Tel: +86(10)62336490; Fax: +86(10)62336908
http://www.lib.bjaeu.edu.cn/icae/index.htm
28th International Symposium "Actual Tasks on Agricultural Engineering"
This event will be held on 1-4 February, 2000 in Opatija, Croatia.
This Symposium is co-sponsored by CIGR, EurAgEng and AAAE. Main topics of the symposium are:
* Farm mechanisation
* Power and machinery
* Ergonomics Energy in agriculture
* Soil and water
* Pre-harvest technology
* Crop harvesting
* Post-harvest technology
* Livestock buildings and equipment
Deadlines:
Submission of abstract: 15 Sept 1999
Notification of paper acceptance: 01 Oct 1999
Submission of full paper: 15 Nov 1999
Registration deadline: 15 Dec 1999
Language will be English and Croatian.
The registration fee is 100 EURO (ECU). It will cover symposium attendance, proceedings and farewell banquet. Members of EurAgEng, CIGR and AAAE will be given 20% lower fee.
For further information contact Symposium Secretariat:
Faculty of Agronomy, Agricultural Engineering Dept.
Svetosimunska cesta 25; HR-10000 Zagreb, CROATIA
Telephone: +385 1 2393819; Fax: +385 1 2393724
E-mail: silvio.kosutic@zg.tel.hr; http://www.agr.hr/aed
8th International Workshop on "Drainage"
This event will be held on January 1 - February 4, 2000 in New Delhi, India.
Organized by the ICID Indian Committee, in cooperation with CIGR Section I Land and Water Use, AAAE and EurAgEng SIG: Soil and Water.
Main topics are:
* Global drainage needs
* Integrated drainage, flood control & water management
* Participatory drainage and socio-economic issues
* Disposal of drainage waters
* Bio-drainage and its impacts on waterlogged and salt affected areas
For further information, please contact:
INCID Secretariat,
301 & 303, Ansal Chambers - II, 6,
Bhikaji Cama Place, New Delhi - 110 066.
Tel: 6182348; Fax: (91-11)6194393
E-mail: wappower@ndb.vsnl.net.in
Millennium International Conference on Renewable Energy Technologies
This event will be held on 9-11 February, 2000 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
It is organized by Planters Energy Network (PEN), Madurai; Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), Chennai; School of Sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University (MKU), Madurai and M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) Chennai. The Conference
Topics are:
* Active solar thermal and photovoltaic technologies - status, upgradation and large scale commercialisation
* Wind power technology - recent trends, operational and maintenance issues
* Bio-mass - potential, utilisation technologies and techno-commercial aspects
* Integrated renewable energy systems - perspectives and issues
* RET for energy conservation
* RET options for food processing industries
* RET and rural poverty alleviation
* Environmental aspects of RET
* Case studies and success stories in RET
An exhibition is planned during the conference.
Deadlines:
Submission of abstracts: 31 July 1999
Notification of acceptance: 15 Aug 1999
Receipt of full manuscript: 30 Sep 1999
Supply of MATS for preparation of
Camera-ready papers : 15 Nov 1999
All correspondence related to accommodation, paper presentation should be addressed to the following address with a copy to the former:
Prof. Ajit Kumar Kolar, Organizing Secretary, "Millennium Conference on Renewable Energy Technologies",
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai-600 036, India.
Tel: +91 44 445 8503; Fax: +91 44 235 0509
E-mail: kolar@iitm.ernet.in
International Conference on "Rational Use of Renewable Energy Sources in Agriculture"
This conference will be held on 9-15 April, 2000 in Budapest, Hungary.
The conference is organized by the Hungarian Electro-technical Association, in cooperation with Section IV of CIGR and the Hungarian Society of Agricultural Science in Budapest. Main topics of the conference are:
* Regenerative energy sources for developed countries and economic use
* Regenerative energy sources for developing countries and economic use
* New role of the use of heat-pumps in agriculture
* Use of every form of biomass in agriculture
* Energy saving technologies in connection with
regenerative sources
Languages: English, German and Hungarian
For further information, please contact the
Conference Secretariat of the Hungarian Electrotechnical Association (MEE); H-1372 Budapest, Pf. 451
Tel.: +36 1 3530117 or +36 1 3120662; Fax: +36 1 3534069
2nd ISHS – Symposium in conjunction with the VDI-MEG – Colloquium "Mechanization of Vegetable Production"
This symposium will be held on 13-16 June, 2000 in Bonn, Germany.
The major topics to be covered in the symposium will be restricted to the areas of seed quality, propagation and growing systems for vegetables. The symposium contents of scientific lectures and a field demonstration.
Main topics of the symposium are:
* Precision seeding and drilling
* Transplanting techniques
* Mulching techniques
* Robotics in horticulture
* Quality measurement for seeding
Languages: English and German
For further information contact:
Secretariat of ISHS Symposium,
c/o Institut fuer Landtechnik;
Nussallee 5; -53115 Bonn
Tel: +49 228 73 23 95; Fax: +49 228 73 25 96
E-mail: landtechnik@uni-bonn.de
http://www.landtechnik.uni-bonn.de
Third International Workshop on Sustainable Land Use Planning
Fragmentation and Land Use Planning: ANALYSIS AND BEYOND
This event will be held on 19-21 June, 2000 in Wageningen, The Netherlands.
It is organised by: Land Use Planning Group, Wageningen University, The Netherlands and in cooperation with the DLO Winand Staring Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands Government Service for Land and Water Use, Utrecht, The Netherlands and the Society for Land and Water Use in The Netherlands. The event is under the auspices of the International Commission of Agricultural Engineering (CIGR) and the International Studygroup on Multiple Use of Land (ISOMUL).
The workshop "Fragmentation and Land Use Planning: Analysis and beyond" aims to address the problems of spatial fragmentation within different land use systems and the challenges to approach these problems through proper methods of land use planning. Therefore, the workshop focuses on two themes:
I. Analysis of the magnitude, causes and types of fragmentation and its resulting problems
II. Methods of land use planning to control or correct these problems
Workshop language: English. No simult. translation.
Deadlines:
Submission of Abstracts: 15 Oct 1999
Notification of acceptance : 1 Dec 1999
Early registration (red. Payment): 15 Feb 2000
Submission of papers and Registration: 1 Apr 2000
Detailed programme /Reservation of hotel accommodation: 1 May 2000
Contact Address: Prof. dr. ir. N. van Lier,
Land Use Planning Group; Wageningen University, Gen. Foulkesweg 13, 6703 BJ Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Tel: +31(0)317 482050; Fax: +31(0)317 482166
Website: http://www.wau.nl/rpv/isomul.html
IFAC Conference on "Modelling and Control in Agriculture, Horticulture and Post-Harvest Processing" - AgriControl 2000
This conference will be held on 10-12 July, 2000 in Wageningen, The Netherlands.
The conference is organized by the International Federation of Automatic Control, IFAC and co-sponsored by CIGR, ASAE, EurAgEng and ISHS.
Topics of the conference include:
* Modelling issues
* Artificial intelligence techniques
* Automation
* Critical sensor technologies
* Greenhouse technology
* Control issues of precision farming
* Post-harvesting technology.
Deadlines:
Abstracts due: 1 December 1999
Notification of authors: 15 February 2000
Full papers: 15 April 2000
For further information, please contact: Prof. G. van Straten,
Wageningen Agricultural University, Congress Bureau, Costerweg 50, 6701 BH Wageningen,
The Netherlands.
International Workshop on "Control of Adverse Impacts of Fertilizers and Agrochemicals"
The two-day workshop will be held on 25-26 October, 2000 in Cape Town, South Africa, during the 51st meeting of the IEC of the ICID. It will form part of the activities of the ICID Committee on "Sustainable use of natural resources for crop production". It is organized by ICID in cooperation with CIGR Section I: Land and Water Use; EurAgEng SIG on Soil and Water and SEASAE. Main topics:
* Observation, monitoring and control
* Modelling: risk assessment
* Strategy and policy instruments for diminishing adverse effects
* Best agricultural management practices to control movement and adverse impacts.
The language of the workshop is English.
Deadlines:
Notification of acceptance or rejection: 1 Sept 1999
Receipt of full-length manuscript: 1 Febr 2000
Receipt of ready manuscript for publication: 1 June 2000
IEC-ICID Meeting and Workshop: October 2000
For further information, please contact:
Prof. Andre Mermoud
Institute of Soil and Water Management (IATE)
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Tel.: +41-21 693 37 26; Fax: +41-21 693 37 39
E-mail: andre.mermoud@epfl.ch
15th ISTRO Conference United States 2000 "Tillage at the Threshold of the 21st Century: Looking Ahead"
This conference will be held on 2-7 July, 2000 in Fort Worth, Texas, United States.
Topics include:
* Tillage for sustainable crop production
* Tillage and soil biology/ecology
* Low input tillage/cropping systems for limited resourceregions
* Role of tillage in precision farming
* Influence of tillage on soil & water quality and erosion
* Tillage effects on crop residue management, seedbed conditions and crop establishment
* New methods and models for characterizing the tillage zone
English will be the official language of the conference.
For further information, please contact:
ISTRO-2000 Conference; Dr. John Morrison
USDA-ARS-GSWRL; 808 East Blackland Road
Temple, Texas USA 76502
Tel: +254 770 6507; Fax: +254 770 6561
E-mail: istro@brcsun0.tamu.edu
WWW: http://www.agen.tamu.edu/organizations/istro
2nd IFAC/CIGR International Workshop on Bio-Robotics, Information Technology and Intelligent Control for Bioproduction Systems
This event will be held on 25-26 November, 2000 in Osaka, Japan.
The workshop aims at providing a forum for presenting new approaches and results on bioproduction robots including many kinds of automated or autonomous machine systems with/without manipulators, information-oriented technology to deal with variability, and technology intelligence for bioproduction systems.
Deadlines:
Abstract: 1 Febr 2000
Notification of authors. 1 April 2000
Full papers: 1 July 2000
For further information, please contact: Prof. Naoshi Kondo
Faculty of Agriculture Okayama University 1-1-1,
Tsushima-Naka Okayama 700-8530, Japan
E-mail: nkondo@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp
XIV Memorial CIGR World Congress 2000
The XIV CIGR World Congress will be held on 28 Nov. - 1 Dec., 2000 at the University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan.
This Congress is sponsored by CIGR and the Science Council of Japan and organized by the Japan Association of the International Commission of Agricultural Engineering and the University of Tsukuba in co-operation with AAAE, ALIA, ASAE, EurAgEng and SEASAE. Topics include:
* Land and water use
* Farm buildings, equipment, structures, environment
* Equipment engineering for plant production
* Rural electricity and other energy sources
* Management, ergonomics and systems engineering
* Processing
* New agricultural technologies in the 21st century: informatics, life support systems, plant factories
* Global agriculture in the 21st century: paddy field agriculture, upland field agriculture, small-scale farming, sustainable bio-production and processing.
Language: English
A one page abstract (A4 size, 500 words) is awaited not later than 31 December 1999.
Proceedings will be published and provided to all participants at the registration desk.
Tentative schedule:
Preliminary registration no later than: 31 August 1999
Second announcement: October 1999
Abstract submission: December 1999
Final announcement: May 2000
Full paper submission: July 2000
For detailed information consult our website at:
http://bee2.en.a.u-tokyo.ac.jp/cigr2000/
Further information, please contact: Dr. H. Nishina
Dept. Biomechanical Systems; Ehime University,
Tarumi, Matsuyama 790-8566, Japan.
Fax.: +81 89 947 8748; E-mail: nishina@agr.ehime-u.ac.jp
International Symposium on Agricultural Buildings of CIGR Section II
This symposium will be held on 3-7 September, 2001 in Campinas, SP Brazil.
The symposium is organized by CIGR Section II: Farm Building, Equipment, Structures and Environment in cooperation with the Brazilian Society of Agricultural Engineering (SBEA) and the Brazilian Agricultural and Animal Research Company (Embrapa) and organized by the State University of Campinas - UNICAMP and guided by an international scientific committee.
Topics:
* Landscape and planning
* Construction: materials and technique
* Climatization: environmental aspects
* Architectural layout
* Infrastructure
Research institutes, universities and related industrial companies are invited to present results in oral and poster sessions.
Official language: English and translation to Portuguese.
Call for papers and abstract forms will be sent out in August 1999 to all potential participants who have handed in their preliminary registration form before March 1999.
General Correspondence:
AgriBuilding 2001, FEAGRI – UNICAMP.
Caixa Postal 6011, 13081-970 Campinas, SP, Brazil
Tel.: +55-19-788-1039; Fax: +55-19-788-1010,
E-mail:
