Asian Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Sustainable Environment
Following the tradition of the conference series that was established in Wakayama City, Japan in 1998, the international committee would like to invite you to join the 8th AFITA conference. The conference will be held from 3rd to 6th September 2012 at ”National Training Institute of Farmers’ Organizations” in Taipei, Taiwan. This conference strives to provide researchers, professionals and industry practitioners to exchange information regarding advancements in the state of art and practice of Information Technology and Communication in Agriculture, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future directions of agricultural developments.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Rural economies and ICT policies for rural development
• e-governance standards/metadata and data standards in agriculture
• e-agribusiness and virtual agri-markets
• Applications for agriculture and precision farming
• Agricultural Information System
• Decision Support Systems for agriculture and agribusiness
• ICT applications in natural resources management
• Agricultural Applications of Cloud & Service Computing
• Remote Sensing and GIS applications
• Extension and knowledge repository services
• Agricultural resources data banks and data mining
• Weather prediction models for profitable agricultural production
• Robotics in Agriculture
• Plant Factory
• Agricultural Education & Training
• General or miscellaneous topics

We’re looking forward to seeing your impressive visit and sincere attendance to AFITA 2012 Conference in Taiwan.