Paris, 27 March 2006


EFITA newsletter / 253 / European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment


Point of view (in Fr-English): Newsletters
Last week, I told you that the most important French agricultural newsletter (LMA) has 38 000 subscribers. I was wrong. I forgot the vitisphere.com newsletter that has 45 000 subscribers. When LMA (Le Mél Agricole) deals with large crops and animal production, vitisphere.com is dedicated to vineyards and wine producers.
Now, with only 25 000 subscribers to my newsletter "Du cote du web et de l'informatique agricole", I feel "small".

> LMA newsletter
See: http://www.terre-net.fr or http://www.web-agri.fr
Contact: Pierre BOITEAU
Email: pboiteau(a)isagri.fr

> Newsletter of "wine lovers"
See: http://www.vitisphere.com
Contact : Michel REMONDAT
Email: michel.remondat(a)vitisphere.com

Contact: Guy WAKSMAN
Email: Waksman(a)acta-informatique.fr


Prague conference - Info and registration and call for paper
16-17 May 2006 - PRAGUE
See: http://www.iszl.cz/
Contact: Karel CHARVAT
Email: lesp.charvat(a)netart.cz


EuroTier (organised by our old friend Dr Karl Schlösser)
14 -17 November 2006 – HANOVER - Germany
See: http://www.eurotier.de/


IST 2006
21-23 November - HELSINKI
One of the main themes will be ICT research objectives and procedures under the new Framework Programme (FP7, 2007-2013). At the same time, the event aims at supporting Europe's innovative potential in developing and rolling out ICTs.
See: http://europa.eu.int/information_society/istevent/2006/index_en.htm


AMI@Netfood Project: The AMI@netfood Strategic Research Agenda on ICTs applicable to Agrifood and Rural Development is already available for validation

AMI@Netfood is a Specific Support Action under the Information Society priority of the European Commission Sixth Framework Programme. The objective of AMI@Netfood project is to support the implementation of the Information Society Technologies (IST) Research Priority and Framework Programme, providing a long-term vision on future trends on Scientific and Technology Research oriented to the development and application of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to the European agri-food industry and rural development domain.

A draft Strategic Research Agenda with the key research guidelines to support the development of the agri-food and rural areas from the perspective of the ICT technologies is now available. This draft SRA will be validated though consultation process including validation template and several workshops across Europe. The template is available in the project web page in several languages. To participate in the workshops, please contact us.

Full SRA is available in PDF format in the following link:
http://www.ami-netfood.com/Deliverables/D3.1_SRA_draft_v2.pdf
A summary of the SRA is available in PDF format in the following link: http://www.ami-netfood.com/Deliverables/Draft_SRA_summary.pdf
Validation templates (several languages) are available in:
www.ami-netfood.com

Email: info(a)ami-netfood.com


The future of maize
See: http://www.arvalisinstitutduvegetal.fr/fr/com_detail.asp?id=280


Catholic parrots
A lady goes to her priest one day and tells him, "Father, I have a problem. I have two female parrots, but they only know how to say one thing."

"What do they say?" the priest inquired.

"They say, 'Hi, we're hookers! Do you want to have some fun?"

"That's obscene!" the priest exclaimed, then he thought for a moment.

"You know," he said, "I may have a solution to your Problem. I have two male talking parrots, which I have taught to pray and read the Bible. Bring your two parrots over to my House, and we'll put them in the cage with Francis and Peter. My parrots can teach your parrots to praise and worship, and Your parrots are sure to stop saying that phrase in no time."

"Thank you," the woman responded, "This may very well be the solution."

The next day, she brought her female parrots to the priest's house. As he ushered her in, she saw that his two male parrots were inside their cage holding rosary beads and praying. Impressed, she walked over and placed her parrots In with them. After a few minutes, the female parrots cried out in unison "Hi, we're hookers! Do you want to have some fun?"

There was stunned silence.

Shocked, one male parrot looked over at the other male parrot and exclaimed, "Put the beads away, Frank. Our prayers have been answered.

Contact : I. KITRON
Email: kitron1(a)terra.com.br


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