The 8th "Asian Conference for Information Technology in Agriculture" will be held from 3rd to 6th September 2012 at ”National Training Institute of Farmers’ Organizations” in Taipei, Taiwan.

Goal

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.

Major Topics of AFITA 2012

• 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