CIGR Newsletter No 50

CIGR-SPONSORED ACTIVITIES

A chronological list of events in the field of agricultural engineering can also be found in our Events Calendar which can be consulted on CIGR’s Website:

http://www.ucd.ie/cigr/

3rd Inter-Regional Conference on

Environment-Water

"WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN THE 21st CENTURY"

The conference will take place in Budapest, Hungary, from 1-3 June 2000. It is organised by: EWRA: European Water Resources Association; ERWG ICID: European Regional Working Group of International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage; TECHWARE: Technology for Water Resources, Hungarian Network. It is supported by DVWK (German Association for Water Resources and Land Improvement), ETNET (Environment-Water), Hungarian National Committee of ICID, Hungarian Society for Hydrology, Technical University of Budapest. Co-sponsors are CIGR, Section 1: Land and Water Use, EWPCA (European Water Pollution Control Association), National Associations of the ERWG Water Network. Topics will be:

For further information contact Prof. Dr. Istvan Ijjas,

Department of Hydraulic and Water Resources Engineering, Technical University of Budapest, Muegyetem rakpart 3, 1111 Budapest, Hungary; Tel: (36 1) 463 1164, Fax: (36 1) 463 1879; E-mail: ijjas@elender.hu

2nd ISHS – Symposium in conjunction with the VDI-MEG –

Colloquium "Mechanisation 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 consists of scientific lectures and a field demonstration. Languages will be English and German. Main topics of the symposium are:

For further information contact:

Secretariat of ISHS Symposium, c/o Institut für Landtechnik; Nussallee 5; 53115 Bonn, Germany. 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 co-operation 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:

Workshop language: English. No simultaneous translation.

Contact Address: 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, Webpage :www.wau.nl/rpv/isomul.html

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:

For further information contact: ISTRO-2000 Conference; Dr. John Morrison, USDA-ARS-GSWRL; 808 East Blackland Road, Temple, Texas 76502, USA. Tel: +254 770 6507; Fax: +254 770 6561 E-mail: istro@brc.tamus.edu. Website: www.agen.tamu.edu/organizations/istro

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 organised by the International Federation of Automatic Control, IFAC and co-sponsored by CIGR, ASAE, EurAgEng and ISHS.

Topics of the conference include:

For further information, please contact: Prof. G. van Straten, Wageningen Agricultural University, Congress Bureau, Costerweg 50, 6701 BH Wageningen, The Netherlands.

8th International Symposium on Animal, Agriculture and Food Processing Wastes

The events will be held on 9-11 October, 2000 in Des Moines, Iowa, USA. For further information please contact: James Converse, University of Wisconsin, Biological Systems Eng. Dept., 460 Henry Hall, Madison, WI 53706-1561, USA. Tel: +1(608) 262 11 06; Fax +1(608) 262 12 28; E-mail: jcconver@facstaff.wisc.edu

6th Argentine Congress of Rural Engineering–CADIR 2000

The congress will be held from 18-20 October 2000 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is organised by the University of Buenos Aires, and it is co-sponsored by CIGR. Official languages will be Spanish and Portuguese. Topics will include:

Contributions can be mailed to:

Committee of CADIR 2000, Depto. de Ingeniería Agrícola y Uso de la Tierra; Cátedra de Topografía; Facultad de Agronomía - Universidad de Buenos Aires; Av. San Martín 4453 - (1417); Buenos Aires – Argentina.

For further information contact Tel: +54-11-4524-8008; Fax: +54-11-4524-8008 y 4514-8730; E-mail: cadir@agro.uba.ar

Web page: http://www.agro.uba.ar/congreso/cadir.htm

51st IEC Meeting of the International Commission on Irrigation and

Drainage (ICID), and Micro 2000, the 6th International

Micro-irrigation Congress

This congress will be held on 22-27 October, 2000, Cape Town, South Africa. The event is organised by the South African National Committee on Irrigation and Drainage (SANCID) and the South African Institute of Agricultural Engineers (SAIAE). The congress language will be English. Congress topics will include:

Deadlines:

Receipt of ready manuscript: 1 Aug 2000

Further information can be obtained from:

The Congress Secretariat; Micro 2000, PO Box 36815, Menlo Park; Pretoria, 0102, South Africa.

Fax: +27 12 344 5643

International Workshop on

"Control of Adverse Impacts of Fertilisers

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 organised by ICID in co-operation with CIGR Section I: Land and Water Use; EurAgEng SIG on Soil and Water and SEASAE. Main topics:

The language of the workshop is English.

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

Latinamerican Congress of Agricultural Engineering CLIA2000

The congress will take place from 6-8 November 2000 at Guanajuato, Gto., Mexico. It is organised by ALIA, the Latin-american and Carribean Society for Agricultural Engineering, and AMIA, the Mexican Association for Agricultural Engineering. It is co-sponsored by CIGR.

Topics will include:

Deadlines:

Full papers 30 Jun 2000

More information at and papers to be sent to:

Depto. de Ingenierí Agrícola y Ambiental del Instituto de Ciencias Agrícolas de la Universidad de Guanajuato. Km 9, Carr. Irapuato-León Ex-Hda. El Copal. Postal 311, CP 36500, Mexico. Tel. y Fax: (4) 624 2484, y 624 5215.

Webpage: www.ugto.mx/eventos/clia2000

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 or without manipulators, information-oriented technology to deal with variability, and technology intelligence for bioproduction systems.

Deadlines:

Full papers: 1 Jul 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 organised 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:

Language: English

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 Agricultural Engineering Conference 2000

The conference will be held from 4-7 December 2000 in Bangkok, Thailand. It is organised by the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). Sponsors are: Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Asian Association for Agricultural Engineering (AAAE), CIGR, and Japanese Society of Agricultural Machinery (JSAM).

Topics will include:

Deadlines:

Receipt of Full Papers 1 Jul 2000

Pre-registration 31 Aug 2000

Abstracts (max 500 words) and completed information form to be sent to:

Ms. Tasana Sa-id, Agriculture, Aquatic Systems and Engineering, Asian Institute of Technology, P. O. Box 4, Klong Luang, Pathuthani 12120 Thailand. Tel. (66-2) 524-5488/5489, Fax: (66-2) 524-6200/516-2126

E-mail: tasana@ait.ac.th

For further information contact Prof. V. M. Salokhe at the address above. Tel. (66-2) 524-5479, 524-5450, Fax: (66-2) 524-6200, 516-2126, E-mail: salokhe@ait.ac.th

6th International ATW-Symposium "Plant Protection for Wine and Fruit Cultivation"

The Symposium, which is co-sponsored by CIGR and which will be one of the supporting acts during INTERVITIS INTERFRUCTA 2001, will take place from 15-16 May, 2001. The development of new application techniques in fruit and wine cultivation on the one hand and a world-wide growing interest in environmental protection on the other are the reasons why the German Committee for Winegrowing Technique (ATW) wishes to rediscuss and review the results of the Symposium on plant protection of 1989. Since aspects and methods of plant protection for winegrowing and fruit cultivation are very similar, the 6th ATW_Symposium aims at bringing into focus both sectors.

For further information please contact:

Chairman of the ATW-Symposium: Prof. Dr. Werner Rühling, FG Technique of FA Geisenheim, D-65366 Geisenheim; +49(0)6722/502-361; Fax: +49(0)6722/502-360; email: technik@geisenheim.fa.fh-wiesbaden.de

Organisation: Dr. Albrecht Achilles, KTBL (Kuratorium für Technik und Bauwesen in der Landwirtschaft), Bartningstraße 49, D-64289 Darmstadt; +49(0)6151/7001-139; Fax: +49(0)6151/7001-204; email: ----

The 6th International Livestock Environment Symposium

The meeting will take place from 21-23 May 2001 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. It is sponsored by ASAE. As co-sponsors appear CIGR, the Canadian Society of Agricultural Engineering and the Brazilian Society of Agricultural Engineering. The official language of the symposium will be English. Topics will include:

For further information contact:

John A. Nienaber, USDA-ARS MARC, US Meat Animal Res Ctr, P.O. Box 166, Clay Center, NE 68933, USA.

Voice: (402) 762-4274; Fax: (402) 762-4273

Email: nienaber@email.marc.usda.gov

For other information contact:

Brenda West, Director, ASAE Meetings & Conferences, 2950 Niles Road, St. Joseph, MI 49085, USA. Voice: (616) 428-6327; Fax: (616) 429-3852; Email: west@asae.org

19th European Regional Conference of ICID "Sustainable Use of Land and Water"

The conference will take place from 4-8 June 2001 in the Congress Centre Brno in Brno and in Prague, Czech Republic. It is organised by ICID under the auspices of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic with the help of CIGR Section 1 "Land and Water Use" and EurAgEng Field of Interest "Soil and Water". Conference languages will be English, French, Czech, and Slovak (with simultaneous translation).

The conference will focus on problems of sustainable developments in Europe. Such developments should guarantee an acceptable quality of the environment, competent protection and rational exploitation of natural resources (in particular, soil and water) and an efficient conservation or, if necessary, restoration of the landscape as an environment for people to live in. Activities will include the control of soil-water regime, flood control, erosion control, revitalisation of streams and reservoirs and, in general, all land improvement and land reclamation measures, including irrigation. Subtopics will be:

Deadlines:

Titles and short abstracts (English or French) 31 May 2000

Acceptance of papers 30 Sep 2000

Full papers (English or French) 31 Jan 2001

For further information contact:

ICID, ERC 2001 Organising Committee, c/o Research Institute for Soil and Water Conservation, Zabovreska 250, 156 27 Praha 5 – Zbraslav, Czech Republic. phone + 420-2-5792 1640; fax + 420-2 -5792 1246

E-mail: sekretariat@vumop.tel.cz

www.vumop.cz and www.vumop.tel.cz

4th IFAC/CIGR International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture AIA 2001

The meeting will take place from 6-8 June 2001 in Budapest, Hungary. It is organised by the Department of Physics and Process Control, Gödöllö University of Agricultural Sciences, and by the Process Control Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences – GUAS. It is supported by the International Federation of Automatic Control, the International Commission of Agricultural Engineering (CIGR), TC on Modelling and Control in Agricultural Processes, TC on Intelligent Control in Agricultural Automation, Gödöllö University of Agricultural Sciences and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Topics of interest include:

Deadlines:

Submission of abstracts 31 Oct 2000

Notification of acceptance 15 Jan 2001

Submission of full papers 31 Mar 2001

Early registration 25 Apr 2001

For paper submission and information contact:

Secretariat of the AIA’2001 Workshop; c/o Prof. I. Farkas; Department of Physics and Process Control; University of Agricultural Sciences; Godollo, Páter K. u. 1. H-2103 HUNGARY; Tel: + 36 28 522055; Fax: + 36 28 410804

E-mail: IFARKAS@FFT.GAU.HU

http://fft.gau.hu/events/aia2001.html

International Conference on "Sustainable Soil Management for Environmental Protection:

Soil Physical Aspects"

This Conference will be held on 2–7 July, 2001 in Florence, Italy. It is organized by the Institute for the Study and Conservation of the Soil of Florence, in cooperation with: CIGR Section I: Land and Water Use, IUSS (International Union of Soil Science) Commission I: Soil Physics, EurAgEng Special Interest Group SW: Soil and Water, European Soil Bureau. The main topics are:

A study tour will be scheduled to the Experimental Centre of the Institute. The conference language will be English.

More information can be obtained from the Chairman of the Organizing and Scientific Committee: Dr. Marcello Pagliai, Institute for the Study and Conservation of the Soil, Piazza M. D’Azeglio 30, 50121 Florence (Italy). Tel.: +39 055 2491255; Fax: +39 055 241485.

E-mail: marcello.pagliai@data.it

The 2nd IFAC/CIGR/JSAM/CREATA/HimII Workshop on

"Intelligent Control for Agricultural Applications"

This event will be held on 22-24 August, 2001 in Bali, Indonesia.

Topics include:

Deadlines:

Abstracts: 15 Jan 2001

Notification of Authors: 20 Mar 2001

Full Papers: 30 May 2001

Send abstracts (not more than 500 words) to and get further information at:

ICAA 2001 Secretariat, Dept. of Agricultural Engineering, Bogor University, P.O. Box 220, Bogor, Indonesia. Phone: +62-251-623985; Fax: +62-251-622202; Email: tpphp@indo.net.id; http://www.creata-ipb.com/icaa-ifac

International Symposium on Agricultural Buildings of CIGR Section II

This symposium will be held on 3-7 September, 2001 in Campinas, SP, Brazil. It is organised by CIGR Section II: Farm Building, Equipment, Structures and Environment in co-operation with the Brazilian Society of Agricultural Engineering (SBEA) and the Brazilian Agricultural and Animal Research Company (Embrapa). It is organised by the State University of Campinas - UNICAMP and guided by an international scientific committee. Topics:

Research institutes, universities and related industrial companies are invited to present results in oral and poster sessions. Official language: English and translation into Portuguese. 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:

52nd IEC Meeting of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID)

and 1st Asian Regional Conference

The meeting will take place from 10-14 September 2001 in Seoul, South Korea. For further information contact: Mr. Koo Yo-Han, Secretary General, Korean National Committee on Irrigation and Drainage (KCID), P.O. Box 12, Anyang, Kyonggi-do, 430-600, Republic of Korea. Phone: 82 343 23 6556; Fax: 82 343 23 6077; E-mail: kcid@chollian.dacom.co.kr.

International Workshop on

"Agricultural Based Development in Tidal Swamp and Estuaries and Environmental Consideration"

The Workshop, which will investigate into Integrated Development in Tidal Swamp and Estuaries for sustainable agricultural development and aquaculture, will be held in Seoul, South Korea, in September 2001, during the 52nd meeting of the International Executive Council (IEC) of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID). It will be organised by: the ICID Working Group on "Environmental impacts of irrigation, drainage and flood control projects", the ICID Working Group on "Drainage" and the Korean National Committee of ICID-KNCID. The language will be English or French. Topics will include:

Abstracts which should not exceed 200 words are to be forwarded to the Secretariat. Deadlines:

Submission of 200 words abstracts 1 Jun 2000

Notification of acceptance 1 Sep 2000

Receipt of full-length manuscript 1 Feb 2001

Receipt of final manuscript 1 Jun 2001

For further information contact the Secretariat:

Dr. Chun G. Yoon, Korean National Committee of ICID, 1031-7, Sadong, Ansan-Si, Kyunggi-do 425-170, Republic of Korea; Tel 82-345-400-1755; e-mail: kcid@karico.co.kr

International Workshop on Wastewater Reuse Management

The Workshop is organized by the ICID Work Team on Use of Poor Quality Water together with CIGR Section I: Land and Water Use, the Korean National Committee of ICID-KNCID, the British Section of ICID, and CIHEAM/MAI-B, Mediterranean Agronomic Institute, Bari, Italy, as a part of 52nd ICID International Executive Council Meeting, which will be held in Seoul, South Korea in September 2001. As co-sponsors appear EurAgEng: Soil and Water Group, the World Bank, and the National Onsite Wastewater Recycling Association, NOWRA, USA. Topics will include:

Abstracts (max 600 words) should be directed to the Secretariat. The language will be English. Deadlines:

Submission of 600 words abstracts 1 Sep 2000

Notification of acceptance or rejection 1 Nov 2000

Receipt of full-length manuscript 1 Feb 2001

Receipt of final manuscript 1 Jun 2001

For further information contact the Secretariat:

Dr. R. Ragab, Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxon, OX10 8BB, UK. Tel:+44-1491-692303; Fax: +44-1491-692424; E-mail: Rag@ceh.ac.uk

CAPPT2001 – 3rd IFAC/CIGR Workshop on Control Application in Post-Harvest and Processing Technology.

This event will be held on 3-5 October, 2001 in Tokyo, Japan. The main issues of the workshop are:

Deadlines:

Call for papers: 30 Nov 2000

Abstract: 31 Mar 2001

Notification of authors: 15 May 2001

Full papers: 15 July 2001

For further Information, please contact: Prof. S. Oshita, Graduate School of Agri. & Life Sci.; Dep. of Biological & Environmental Eng.; University of Tokyo; Yayoi 1-1-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 111-8657; Japan

CIGR Section II Symposium on

"ANIMAL WELFARE CONSIDERATIONS IN LIVESTOCK HOUSING SYSTEMS"

The meeting will take place from 22-24 October 2001 at the Technical University of Zielona Góra, Poland. It is supported by CIGR Section II, the Polish Committee of Agricultural Engineering, the Agricultural University of Wroclaw, and the Technical University of Zielona Góra. The symposium language will be English, and the main topics of the symposium will be:

Call for papers

Short (max 300 words) abstracts for paper or poster presentations should be sent by mail, fax or e-mail to the Symposium Secretariat by November 15, 2000. The program committee will review the abstracts and notify authors of acceptance by March 1, 2001.

For inquireies contact Symposium Secretariat:

Department of Agricultural Buildings, Agricultural University of Wroclaw, Pl. Grunwaldzki 24, 50 363 Wroclaw, Poland; Tel: +48 71 320 55 26; Fax: +48 71 320 55 84; E-mail: ibr@ozi.ar.wroc.pl;

or Prof. Tadeusz Kuczynski, Technical University of Zielona Góra, ul. prof. Zygmunta Szafrana 2, 65 016 Zielona Góra, Poland; Fax: +48 71 337 13 82; E-mail: t.kuczynski@wm.pz.zgora.pl

 

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