Title	Agricultural Model Applications
Chair	Suhaimi Napis (UPM) and Pisuth Paiboonrat (HAII)
Objective	Agricultural sector regarded as the world population, food production unit comprises three main elements, people, areas, and resources (including plants and animals) that cannot separate from each other. The information technology significantly works as tool to weave these elements together in order to seek for an appropriate information technology for systematic analysis and solutions as well as proper management. As a consequence of this, AG-WG was established to act as a coordinator among researchers working on agricultural information technology.
Target Audience	Agriculture Science, IT for Agriculture, IT for Rural Development Communities
Expected No. of Participants	15-20
Session Chair & Speakers	Session Chairs: Suhaimi Napis (UPM) and Pisuth Paiboonrat (HAII) 1. Keynote speaker: A History of APAN-AG Speaker: Mizushima Akira(NARO) 2. A tool to dynamically merge corresponding weather data to crop date Speaker: S.Ninomiya, X. Yu and A.Yamakawa (NARO) via VTC 3. Sustainable Development eLearning Network (SDLearn) Speaker: Buenafe R. Abdon (SDLearn) via VTC 4. Aquaculture Digital Library Speaker: Yoothana Sermsuk,(NACA) 5. IMARK Speaker: Michael Riggs (FAORAP)
Remarks(including Special arrangements if Any)	VTC Requested

Last Updated 13 July 2006