Paris, 21 July 2008
EFITA newsletter / 371 / European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture,
Food and the Environment
Green tourism in eight EU countries and the DVD AgroTour.net, an e-learning
tool for agrotourism training
55th AgriMMedia Seminar - Paris - MNE – 16 September 2008 – From 2 pm to
6 pm
This 55th AgriMMedia seminar will be devoted to agrotourism:
- at first, we will present the DVD AgroTour.Net, a multilingual e-learning
tool for agrotourism training. This DVD was developed within the framework of
the European project called AgroTour.Net and directed by M. Alecos Tringides
of the company Trysis from Cyprus.
- in the second part of this seminar, we will present the situation of
green tourism in the eight European countries from where the project participants
come: Cyprus, Greece, Lithuania, France, United Kingdom, Check Republic, Bulgaria
and the Netherlands. These countries have very different approaches of agrotourism:
attraction of bygone past, "back to nature", interest in cultural
and architectural heritages (including gastronomy!), taste for contacts with
clients coming from towns, rural tourism or real farm tourism, difficulties
to maintain an agricultural production together with services to tourists… and
need for diversification and for additional income that may lead to a complete
change of business.
This panorama of "green tourism" will not be static and will take
into account recent changes. E.g. we will see how the situation is evolving
in Greece and in the Netherlands.
Beyond differences between countries, failures and successes, the unity of "green
tourism" at the European level is obvious: our "farm tourism"
should be better known by our European friends. And French people who appreciate
this kind of vacations should better know what our neighbours are marketing.
This is the reason why the invited specialists will illustrate their talks with
presentations of web sites demonstrating presence of "green tourism"
in their respective countries.
This 55th AgriMmedia seminar will take place on Tuesday, September the 16th
2008, from 2 to 6 pm, at Maison Nationale des Éleveurs, 149 rue de Bercy, 75595
PARIS Cedex 12, metro Bercy or Gare de Lyon. Language will be English with translation
in French.
The files of the three previous seminars organised by ACTA Informatique on "Farm
tourism" are available on the ACTA Informatique web site: http://www.acta-informatique.fr
(see: "Nos colloques AGRIMMEDIA"). An access map to Maison Nationale
des Éleveurs is available on this web site.
Contact: Guy WAKSMAN
E-mail: waksman(a)acta-infromatique.fr
7th New Ag International Conference and Exhibition
25 - 27 March 2009 - BARCELONA, Spain
We are pleased to invite speakers from the private and public research and from
the commercial sector to send us by September 30th, 2008 latest their proposal
for technical lectures of 20 minutes.
The topic must be technical and/or scientific and should cover one of the following
subjects: speciality plant nutrition (foliar spray- fertigation- Controlled
Release Products), biostimulants, irrigation (microirrigation-sprinkler irrigation,
irrigation control), biological plant protection ( microbials, Invertebrates,
botanicals, natural substances and semiochemicals), sensors and information
technology applied to crop management, as well greenhouse cropping and management
.
See: www.newaginternational.com
French agricultural web TV
>> TV Agri
Voir : http://www.acta-informatique.fr?d=7371
>> La télé agricole
Voir : http://www.acta-informatique.fr?d=7370
Data dictionaries for cattle data by Landeskontrollverband Nordrhein-Westfalen
See: http://www.lkv-nrw.de/index.php?id=278
(see data dictionaries on the left side)
Contact: Christian METZLER
E-mail: metzler(a)lkv-nrw.de
Q.: What do you call a fly with no wing?
A.: A walk
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