Thank you Gregoire and Allain, Vern -- Subject: VICIS seminar invitation Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:02:19 +0100 From: Gregoire Darras gdarras@geosys.com CC: 'Alain KILLMAYER' ak@airects.net
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We are pleased to invite you to attend the "Vietnam Crop Information System" international seminar, on December 15th 2005, at the Army Hotel in Hanoi.
This seminar will introduce results of EU Geo-spatial techniques applied to the Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia context, for agricultural statistics, crop inventory and monitoring, production forecast, crop potential and quality. The seminar will focus on the most recent results and technical findings on the following topics: - Vegetation and Crop monitoring using Remote Sensing technologies (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia) - Ag-Information system for local management and quality improvement of Tea production in Daitu District (Thai Nguyen Province) - Dedicated Coffee Information System Implemented in the Daklak province to capture and monitor the planted acreage evolution and to better forecast production.
In the context of WTO integration, EU PIP -EUREP-GAP programs and globalisation of Agrifood exchanges, the need for reliable and updated information is mandatory to monitor, analyze and report trends and define better development policies for Agriculture. In addition, the new quality norms and the traceability issues required in several sector are to be considered as by-products of Ag-Information system. In the light of these new challenges facing the Ag- Sector, we believe this seminar will bring fruitful experiences and valuable networking for you and your organisation.
Alain KILLMAYER Director of VICIS EU ITC project President of AIRECTS NGO ak@airects.net http://vicis.airects.net
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