Châtenay-Malabry (FR - 92290), 9 July 2018
EFITA newsletter / 834 - European Federation for Information Technology
in Agriculture, Food and the Environment
Life-saving optimism: what the west can learn from Africa, by Chigozie
Obioma
In the US, where I teach, mental health problems are rife. In Nigeria,
poverty is common but there’s no hopelessness. Why?
See: https://theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/02/africa-nigeria-life-saving-optimism-teach-west-depression
Dissemination of this efita newsletter last week
See: https://powow4.iroquois.fr/data/pdf_reports/8d91cafdbd055ddefef7c0ecc66733304343d6e7.pdf
Next GIL Meeting
18 – 18 February 2019 - VIENNA
The next annual meeting of the Society for Computer Science in Agriculture,
Forestry and Food Industry (GIL) takes place in Vienna under the existing
paradigm of digitization with a focus on small-scale regions.
The extremely active partners of Boku promise an interesting conference.
For the first time the GIL conference takes place outside of Germany -
this time, research institutes from Austria, South Tyrol and Switzerland
are involved in the planning of the meeting.
As always, practice partners will be involved this time, giving the opportunity
to interact with them. An excursion is planned, details will follow -
updates can be found on the homepage:
Official Language of the meeting is German, anyhow contributions in English
language are welcome.
See: https://www.gil-net.de/tagungen.php
Contact: PD Dr. Andreas MEYER-AURICH
E-mail: ameyer(a)atb-potsdam.de
To correspond with me (GW), please use this address: guy.waksman(a)laposte.net
To subscribe the efita newsletter (please ask your friends and colleagues
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Weekly newsletters about ICT in Agriculture in English and French
Both newsletters have around 14000 subscribers.
>>> Last weekly EFITA Newsletters in English (created in 1999)
See: http://www.informatique-agricole.org/efita-newsletters/
>>> Last weekly AFIA Newsletters in French (created 20 years
ago in 1997)
Voir : http://www.informatique-agricole.org/les-gazettes/
Around 15% of subscribers have a look on these newsletters. A rather normal
rate…
The archive for the last years are available on the AFIA web site.
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Séminaires |
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Journée Internet des Objets (IoT) en agriculture – le
28 avril 2017 à Boigneville |
Welcome to Rural Uber
See: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LiY607TntBI
Isagri 2018 (Main French Ag ICT company)
127 M€ (Turnover software edition) / 170 M€ (Total Turnover)
1600 people (R&D: 300)
See: https://truffle100.fr/2018.html
See: http://www.isagri.com/Ressources/Pages/Accueil.aspx
SMAG: The second French Ag ICT company
120 employees, including agronomics engineers and management information experts
12 M€ (Turnover 2017)
See: http://smag-group.com/en
Latest issue of the Journal of Agricultural Informatics: Journal articles of Vol 9, No 2 (2018)
The journal is backed by an international editorial board, the Hungarian Association of Agricultural Informatics (HAAI) and the European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment (EFITA).
We hope that the articles find your interest and are looking forward to receiving your suggestions, and publication interests.
See; http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/issue/view/21
See; http://journal.magisz.org/index.php/jai/issue/view/21/showToc
>>> The issue of Vol 9, No 2 (2018) in PDF:
http://journal.magisz.org/files/journals/JAI_Vol_9_No_2.pdf
>> Zeynel Cebeci, Cagatay Cebeci
A novel technique for fast determination of K in partitioning cluster analysis
https://doi.org/10.17700/jai.2018.9.2.442
>> Romanos Kalamatianos, Pavlos Bouchagier, Markos Avlonitis
Modeling the effect of olive fruit bearing percentage on Bactrocera oleae stochastic dispersion
https://doi.org/10.17700/jai.2018.9.2.437
>> Ishwar Singh Parmar, Peeyush Soni, Krishna R. Salin, John K. M. Kuwornu
Assessing farmers access to ICT and non-ICT sources for agricultural development in Semi-Arid Region in India
https://doi.org/10.17700/jai.2018.9.2.459
>> Nemer Abu Rumman, Róbert Szilágyi
Overview of the electronic public services in agriculture in Jordan
https://doi.org/10.17700/jai.2018.9.2.433
>> Lajos Nagy, László Pusztai, Margit Csipkés
Application of the multiple objective programming in the optimization of production structure of an agricultural holding
https://doi.org/10.17700/jai.2018.9.2.441
>> István Füzesi, Péter Lengyel, János Felföldi
Significance of food industry trademarks and product traceability from a customer perspective
https://doi.org/10.17700/jai.2018.9.2.452
Contact: Miklós HERDON (Editor in Chief)
E-mail: jai-l(a)agr.unideb.hu
Its newest data interface offers the next generation of wireless data transfer between machines and even cloud systems.
See: http://farmindustrynews.com/technology/aef-takes-automation-machine-machine-communication
Dickey-john mini GAC® 2500 - handheld grain moisture analyzer
The first and only handheld grain moisture tester mini GAC® 2500 equipped with 149 MHz/UGMA technology to accurately match elevator results in the field.
See: http://www.farmindustrynews.com/technology/dickey-john-mini-gac-2500-handheld-grain-moisture-analyzer
How to distinguish maize from soybean on satellite images
Scientists of the University of Illinois at Chicago have developed a new technique for distinguishing maize and soybean fields on satellite images, using the processing power of supercomputers.
See: https://www.futurefarming.com/Machinery/Articles/2018/4/How-to-distinguish-maize-from-soybean-on-satellite-images-273541E/
See: http://news.aces.illinois.edu/news/satellites-supercomputers-and-machine-learning-provide-real-time-crop-type-data
Sparter: World’s first selective asparagus harvesting robot
This robot can detect underground asparagus, cut them, shift the plastic back in place and repair the sand bed. This way less damage to the asparagus occurs, resulting in a higher yield. In addition, the asparagus does not discolour and flower.
See: https://www.futurefarming.com/Machinery/Articles/2018/4/Sparter-Worlds-first-selective-asparagus-harvesting-robot-273538E/
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Economy through equipment uniformity?
Pattison Liquid Systems – a Western-Canadian farm machinery manufacturer – has partnered with DOT Technology Corp. to produce equipment capable of fitting a versatile, autonomous driving unit called the DOT Power Platform.
See: https://www.futurefarming.com/Machinery/Articles/2018/4/Economy-through-equipment-uniformity-271971E/
Russian hacking could impact U.S. ag
10 tips for you to protect your home computers and smartphones from cyber-attacks.
See: http://farmindustrynews.com/technology/russian-hacking-could-impact-us-ag
Grow organic?
Will more conventional farmers grow more of what consumers and food companies want?
See: http://www.cornandsoybeandigest.com/organic/grow-organic
Difference makers
Bench strength is what matters when it comes to building your farm.
See: http://www.cornandsoybeandigest.com/management/difference-makers
International Soil Tillage Research Organisation (ISTRO)
See: http://Istro2018.webistem.com
Biotech Crop Adoption Surges as Economic Benefits Accumulate in 22 Years
Up to 17 million farmers in 24 countries planted 189.8 million hectares (469 million acres) in 2017, an increase of 3% or 4.7 million hectares (11.6 million acres) from 2016.
See: http://isaaa.org/resources/publications/briefs/53/download/isaaa-brief-53-2017.pdf
Farm Babe: The fat lies and fatter wallets of anti-GMO lobbyists
See: https://agdaily.com/features/farm-babe-fat-lies-fatter-wallets-anti-gmo-lobbyists/
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Life as a Senior citizen
Yesterday, my son emailed me asking why I didn't do something useful with my time.
"Like sitting around the computer and drinking wine is not a good thing?" I asked.
Talking about my "doing-something-useful" seems to be his favourite topic of conversation.
He was "only thinking of me," he said, and suggested that I go down to a club to hang out with the fellows.
So I did this and when I got home last night, I decided to play a prank on him. I emailed him and told him that I had joined a Parachute Club.
He replied, "Are you nuts? You are over 75 and now you're going to start jumping out of airplanes?"
I told him that I even got a Membership Card and emailed a copy to him.
He immediately telephoned me and yelled, "Good grief, Dad, where are your glasses? This is a Membership to a Prostitute Club, not a Parachute Club."
"Oh my, I'm in trouble again," I said, adding, "I really don't know what to do. I signed up for five jumps a week!"
The line went dead.
Life as a Senior Citizen is not getting any easier, but sometimes it can be fun.
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Jokes, Quotes and Anecdotes... an Anatomy of Wit
Mick Harkin, ex Secretary of EFITA, who has kept us amused with his Friday
Jokes over the years, has published a book on Amazon entitled "Jokes,
Quotes and Anecdotes... an Anatomy of Wit".
See: http://www.jokesquotesandanecdotes.com
Contact: Mick HARKIN
E-mail: mickjharkin(a)gmail.com
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