Paris, 6 March 2006
EFITA newsletter / 249 / European Federation for Information
Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment
Point of view (in Fr-English): e-marketing and credit card (EU LdV project
e-business)
We had an interesting seminar (28 February 2006) about e-marketing of products
and services proposed by farmers, with successful examples. All speakers explained
that it is essential to propose on the web an immediate payment with the credit
card. Otherwise, web sites are far less efficient.
See (in French): http://www.acta-informatique.fr?d=5253
Contact: Guy WAKSMAN
Email: waksman(a)acta-informatique.fr
Farm advisory service & integrated rural area solution (PROGIS-Conference
2006)
19 - 20 April –
The event explores background, legislation, needs and technologies for farm
advisory systems, as they are necessary to comply with the new situations like
commitments regarding Cross Compliance, documentation needs to ensure food-
and feed-traceability, to calculate, to map etc..
The set up of public or private farm advisory services (FAS) is binding from
2007. Few states have already installed systems, but most of the member states
are still evaluating how to manage them best.
FAS are on one side a challenge for national ministries, on the other side an
excellent chance for agri-entrepreneurs picking up this new business segment
…… perhaps suitable to your activities?
There are further “winners” of this regulation. The farmers, who will get grants
for claiming FAS – that means qualified advice (if advisors have an excellent
technology) for low money.
PROGIS will present its integrated AGROffice-technology as it is applicable
to any of the mentioned fields of business activity. AGROffice comprises next
to mentioned tasks, issues like economy, ecology, logistics, precise - and virtual
farming, forestry etc. Many of them “global issues”, that’s why our partners
from Germany, UK & Ireland, Slovakia, Spain, Bosnia & Herzegovina will
present their excellent successes in their countries with PROGIS technologies
as well as experts from throughout EU will present their views to the mentioned
topics.
See: http://www.progis.com/event/conf2006/progis_konf/index.htm
Contact: Walter H. MAYER
Email: office(a)progis.com
Third Central European Congress on Food (CEFood 2006)
22 - 24 May 2006 -
- Smart Technologies for Sustainable Food Production and Preservation
- Food Quality, Manufacturing and Preservation
- Continuous Traceability and Ubiquitous Food Chain Management
- Advances in Food Refrigeration and Cold Chain Logistics
- Improved Nutrition for Life, Health and Longevity
See: http://www.cefood.org
Contact : Kostadin FIKIIN
E-mail: agf(a)tu-sofia.bg
International Environmental Conference on “Sustainable Management and Development
of Mountainous and
Next September - NAXOS island – Greece
See: http://www.fmenr.duth.gr/Naxos-Conference/index.htm
Contact : Dr. Zacharoula S. Andreopoulou
E-mail: randreop(a)for.auth.gr
Task Force International Data Dictionary
Invitation to submit your comments about the meta data model to the wiki,
where we wanted to collect all proposals etc. If you are interested to do this,
look at:
http://www.lkv-wl.de/mdmiddwiki
Contact: Christian PAULSEN
Email: paulsen(a)lkv-nrw.de
The new issue of CORE Organic news is highlighting a variety of topics within
research in organic food and farming
See: http://www.coreorganic.org/corenews/feb06/index.html
Contact: Claus Bo ANDREASEN
Email: clausbo.andreasen(a)agrsci.dk
Computronics newsletter (from down under)
We have just published our first newsletter. We are offering free subscription
to any one interested. It can also be downloaded from our web site at
See: http://www.farmscan.net/news.aspx?selection=1&menu=main
Contact: Ole HANSEN
Email: oleh(a)computronics.com.au
"Food Quality and safety" under the Sixth Framework Programme
See: http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/fp6/projects.cfm?p=5&pmenu=off
Contact: Myriam AIT-AISSA
E-mail: myriam.ait-aissa(a)acta.asso.fr
New report considers co-existence of GM and non-GM crops and seeds
See: http://europa.eu.int/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=
IP/06/230&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
See: http://www.jrc.es/home/pages/home.htm
Avian Influenza
> Vaccination of certain poultry in
See: http://europa.eu.int/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/06/210&type=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
> Questions and Answers: Vaccinating poultry and other birds against Avian
Influenza
See: http://europa.eu.int/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/06/92
&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
CAP Reform: EU agriculture ministers adopt groundbreaking sugar reform
See: http://europa.eu.int/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/06/194
&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
Agricultural trade statistics 2005 (1st semester)
See: http://europa.eu.int/comm/agriculture/agrista/tradestats/index_sem.htm
Chicken power
A bear, a lion and a chicken meet.
Bear says: "if I roar in the forest, the entire forest shivers with fear."
Lion says: "if I roar in the desert, the entire desert trembles in fear."
"Big deal," says the chicken: "I only have to cough and the entire
planet s***s itself."
Contact: Mick HARKIN
Email: harkin(a)iol.ie
It sounds like a constructive suggestion… doesn’t it?
President Bush announced today he was extending an olive branch to the Democrats.
He invited Ted Kennedy to go hunting with Dick Cheney.
Contact: Bernard P. AUXENFANS
Email: auxenfansb(a)attglobal.net
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