AFITA 2012 - 8th Asian Conference for Information Technology in Agriculture

Asian Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Sustainable Environment
Following the tradition of the conference series that was established in Wakayama City, Japan in 1998, the international committee would like to invite you to join the 8th AFITA conference. The conference will be held from 3rd to 6th September 2012 at Howard International House in Taipei, Taiwan. This conference strives to provide researchers, professionals and industry practitioners to exchange information regarding advancements in the state of art and practice of Information Technology and Communication in Agriculture, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future directions of agricultural developments.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Rural economies and ICT policies for rural development
Extension and knowledge repository services
Agricultural resources data banks and data mining
Remote Sensing and GIS applications
Applications for agriculture and precision farming
Agricultural Information System
Decision Support Systems for agriculture and agribusiness
e-agribusiness and virtual agri-markets
Weather prediction models for profitable agricultural production
ICT applications in natural resources management
e-governance standards/metadata and data standards in agriculture
Robotics in Agriculture
Plant Factory
Agricultural Applications of Cloud & Service Computing
Agricultural Education & Training
General or miscellaneous topics
We’re looking forward to seeing your impressive visit and sincere attendance to AFITA 2012 Conference in Taiwan.