CIGR Newsletter No 54
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' Website:
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).
- Sustainable developments in Europe
- Efficient conservation
- Control of soil-water regime
- Flood control
- Erosion control
- Revitalisation of streams and reservoirs
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 CIGR, the International Federation of Automatic Control, 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 will include:
- Fundamental representation issue
- Tools, techniques, algorithms
- Applications and partical issues
For paper submission and information contact:
Secretariat of the AIA 001 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
XXIX Congress CIOSTA-CIGR V
The congress will be held from 25-27 June 2001 at the Hotel of the Polonian Institute of the Jagiellonian University and at the Congress Centre of the Agricultural University of Kraków, Poland. The official language of the congress is English. No facilities for simultaneous translation will be available. The focus of the Congress will be on the following areas:
- Problems of agriculture adjustment to the contemporary economic requirements
- Electronic technology in agriculture
- Work conditions
For further information contact Tadeusz Juliszewski, President of the CIOSTA, or S. Roczkowska-Chmaj, Congress Secretary, at the Faculty of Agricultural Engineering and Energetics, Agricultural University of Kraków, Ul. Balicka 104, PL 30-149 Kraków, Poland
Phone: +48 (12) 637 40 44, Fax: +48 (12) 637 45 39, e-mail: rtjulisz@cyf-kr.edu.pl, rtroczko@cyf-kr.edu.pl
International Conference on "Sustainable Soil Management for Environmental Protection: Soil Physical Aspects"
This Conference will be held on 2 July, 2001 in Florence, Italy. It is organised by the Institute for the Study and Conservation of the Soil of Florence, in co-opUeration with: CIGR Section I: Land and Water Use, IUSS (International Union of Soil Science) Commission I: Soil Physics, EurAgEng Field of Interest SW: Soil and Water, European Soil Bureau. The main topics are:
- Soil compaction
- Soil erosion
- Soil degradation
- Soil hydrology
- Modelling and Databases.
The conference language will be English.
More information can be obtained from the Chair of the Organising and Scientific Committee: Dr. Marcello Pagliai, Institute for the Study and Conservation of the Soil, Piazza M. D’Azeglio 30, 50121 Florence ( Italy ).c Tel.:s +39 055 2491255; Fax: +39 055 241485.
E-mail: marcello.pagliai@dada.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 will include:
- Genetic algorithms
- Fuzzy methods
- Neuro-fuzzy methods
- Post harvest operations
- Control for precision farming
- Harvesting systems
- Quality and storage automation
- Food processing control
- Ergonomics
- Instrumentation and Measurement
- Robotics for Bio-production and Bio-systems
For further information go to www.creata-ipb.com/icaaa-ifac
CIGR Section IV International Conference on Integrated Renewable Energy for Regional Development–CIRERD 2001
>>>>>>The conference will be held in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, from 28-31 August 2001. Main points of the conference are:
- Renewable energy for rural households (food and fuel)
- Renewable energy applications for agricultural production
- Renewable energy for small and medium scale industries
- Supply and demand modelling of renewable energy for integrated rural development
- Government policy on renewable energy (country report)
- Experiences gained from renewable energy pilot projects
For further information contact the Conference Secretariat,
CIRERD 2001 Secretariat, c.q. CREATA-Research Institute-IPB, Darmaga Campus PO Box 220 Bogor 16002, INDONESIA; Tel./Fax: 62-251-621886/7
e-mail:cirerd01@indo.net.id; www.creata-ipb.com/cirerd
International Workshop on Sustainable Management of Irrigated Crops
The Workshop is organised by the ICID Committee on Sustainable Use of Natural Resources for Crop Production, together with CIGR Section I, the Korean National Committee of ICID-KNCID, the Italian Committee of ICID-ITALICID, as a part of the 52nd ICID International Executive Meeting, which will be held in Seoul, South Korea in September 2001. The language will be English. Topics:
- Observation, monitoring and control
- Strategy and policy tools for reducing/minimising adverse impacts of fertilisers and pesticides
- Use of poor quality water for irrigation
- Waterlogging and salinity risk
- New crop cultivars
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
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 The official language will be English with a translation to Portuguese. Topics:
- Landscape and planning
- Construction: materials and technique
- Climatisation: environmental aspects
- Architectural layout
- Infrastructure
General Correspondence:
AgriBuilding 2001, FEAGRI UNICAMP. Caixa Postal 6011, 13081-970 Campinas, SP, Brazil; Tel.: +55-19-788-1039; Fax: +55-19-788-1010; www.cnpsa.embrapa.br/cigr/;
E-mail:
International Workshop on
Wastewater Reuse Management
The Workshop is organised 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. The language will be English. Topics will include:
- Technology
- Health related issues
- Environmental impacts
- Cost effectiveness
- Soil crop water management
- Planing and institutional aspects
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 points of the workshop are:
- Optimal control, intelligent control, Fuzzy control
- Measurement and modelling of crop or product responses for quality enhancement during storage of processing
- Identification of control structures based on plant responses
- Intelligent, crop based decision criteria
- Effect of product variability on control strategy
- Compartments and instruments for control in processing and storage
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; Fax: +81-3-5841-8174
E-mail: cappt2001@bpe.en.a.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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:
- Farm animal welfare: the contemporary context
- Testing methodologies, techniques and equipment
- Influence of housing systems on animal health
- Influence of housing systems and stockperson attitude on animal welfare
- Environmental effects on animal stress, behaviour and productivity
- Effect of animal welfare considerations on technical solutions of livestock housing and equipment
- Animal welfare in the context of other concerns about animal agriculture
- Genetic aspects of animal welfare
- Economic constraints and incentives in promoting farm animal welfare
The program committee will review submitted abstracts and notify authors of acceptance by March 1, 2001.
For inquiries 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;
Also check the following web pages: www.pz.zgora.pl/cigr/ or www.ar.wroc.pl/english/conferences/index.html
12th Members Meeting of the Club of Bologna
Strategies for the development of agricultural mechanisation
The meeting will take place in Bologna, Italy, from 18-19 November 2001. The meeting is sponsored by UNACOMA, and it is held under the auspices of CIGR. The main topics are:
- Developement of agricultural mechanization to assure long-term global food supply
- Code of Ethics as a contribution for a proper agricultural mechasnization
For further information contact M. Fiala, Instituto di Ingegneria Agraria, Universita di Milano, Via Celoria 2, 20133 Milano, Italy; Tel: (02) 236914.20; Fax: (02) 236914.99; email: marco.fiala@unimi.it
XV CIGR World Congress 2002
Joint CIGR/ASAE Congress
The XV CIGR World Congress will be held on 28 July - 1 August 2002 in Chicago, USA. This Congress is sponsored by CIGR and ASAE and in cooperation with AAAE, ALIA, ASAE, EurAgEng, AEEEA and SEASAE.

