Paris, 22 May 2006
EFITA newsletter / 261 / European Federation for Information
Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment
Point of view (in Fr-English): Fertilisation
On 11 May, ACTA Informatique organised a seminar about Agricultural ICT
and fertilisation. The same day, the French National Assembly was discussing
a new regulation about water quality. Our seminar showed the results of 15 years
of works by agricultural ICT companies and advisory organisations which propose
today very efficient ICT tools to optimise fertilisation. The best that we can
do to limit pollution by fertilisers today is to promote the use of these tools.
Contact: Guy WAKSMAN
Email: Waksman(a)acta-informatique.fr
Internet / old Minitel (Next - 1)
You are showing your age Guy - it is our generation's lot to be the ones
who's eyesight and patience fails as the technology gets smaller but not that
much faster!
Contact: Andy OFFER
E-mail: Andy.Offer(a)adas.co.uk
Internet / old Minitel (Next - 2)
In the early days of Minitel I visited several farmer cooperatives about
three hours from Paris. At that time they published daily grain market prices
via Minitel for their members. With this in mind did anyone evaluate Minitel's
impact on farmers, on agricultural production and on the rural sector? And what
happened to Minitel - did the Internet evolution take over and how, did the
farmer's cooperatives have a role in the process, etc.? I think this case study
review can be a useful contribution to the on-going evaluation of the "ICT
Adoption for Agriculture" processes. It is certainly a paper of interest
for the next EFITA conference in Glasgow. Interested? With much appreciation
for your EFITA Newsletter efforts and warm regards.
Contact: Dr. Ehud GELB
E-mail: gelb(a)agri.huji.ac.il
Answer (GW): Minitel is still used by many French farmers. The services offered
on the Internet are not very different from those offered since the eighties
on the Minitel. The take-over by the Internet is rather slow but could speed
up because of the development of broadband accesses
The Minitel's impact has been evaluated by M. SALANCON (salancon@ensam.inra.fr)
a few years ago.
AKAL 2007 - 15th Conference on Agricultural Work Science
5-6 March, 2007 - VIENNA
The conference is organised by Max-Eyth-Society, Agricultural Engineering in
the VDI and the University of Vienna. It will mark an important step establishing
a scientific agenda to help efficiently to tackle challenges for work in agriculture.
Experts from industry and research establishments will discuss the means, ways
and role of agricultural work science in this context. Papers may be submitted
in German or English. Participation of scientists and experts from overseas,
especially those from countries in Eastern Europe and outside of Europe will
be generously supported.
These are the most important deadlines:
- Announcement of contribution with abstract online: 31st July 2006
- Deadline for the acceptance of papers: 15th of September 2006
- Printing-version online: 30th November 2006
See: http://www.nas.boku.ac.at/akal-seminar.html?&L=1
Contact: Isabella KRISTLER
Email: isabella.kristler(a)boku.ac.at
Uniting key players to fight obesity in the EU
See: http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/health_consumer/dyna/consumervoice/create_cv.cfm?cv_id=200
Irish automatic salary review
See: http://www.acta-informatique.fr?d=6377
Germany calling!!
Follow the link below - I think some of you will like this. You'll
need a sound card of course - but then who is without one these days.
See: http://jm.slove.org/gc/
Contact: Mick HARKIN
E-mail: harkin(a)iol.ie
Cinco pájaros
- Jaimito, si tengo cinco pájaros sobre una rama y le pego una pedrada a
uno de ellos, ¿cuántos me quedan?
- Ninguno maestra...
-¿Por qué ninguno Jaimito?
- Ninguno, maestra, porque los demás se van volando del susto...
- Está mal Jaimito, pero me gusta tu forma de pensar...
Luego viene Jaimito y le dice a la maestra:
- Ahora yo le voy a hacer una pregunta: si usted ve a dos mujeres comiendo un
helado y una de ellas lo esta chupando y la otra lo esta mordiendo, ¿cuál de
ellas está casada?
Después de pensarlo un poco dice la maestra un poco confundida:
- Supongo que la que lo esta chupando...
- No, maestra, la que tiene el anillo, pero me gusta su forma de pensar.
Contact : Liam LOUGHRAN
E-mail: liaml(a)aizabala.com
May you always... Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much (2)
An elderly gentleman had suffered from serious hearing problems for a number
of years. He went to the doctor, and the doctor was able to have him fitted
for a set of hearing aids that allowed the gentleman to hear 100%.
The elderly gentleman went back in a month to the doctor, and the doctor said,
"Your hearing is perfect. Your family must be really pleased that you can
hear again."
The gentleman replied, "Oh, I haven't told my family yet. I just sit around
and listen to the conversations. I've changed my will three times!"
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