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DTSTART: 2011-03-14
DTEND: 2011-03-18
DCREATED: 2010-05-25 13:51:03.051789
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SUMMARY: I International Symposium on Sustainable Vegetable Production in South East Asia
DESCRIPTION: Background&amp;nbsp; &lt;p&gt;Vegetable production in South East Asia is an economically very important sector that generates an income for millions of smallholder farmers and larger scale agricultural companies. Because of the large added value, vegetable production is often characterized by a very intensive input of both on farm (organic manures) and off-farm (agrochemicals) agricultural inputs. On the other hand, little scientifically based schemes of fertilization and crop protection exist, which often leads farmers to over-applying these agricultural inputs. This has lead to a reduction in general soil quality and excessive losses of nutrients to the environment, leading e.g. to eutrophication of natural waters. Overapplication of pesticides has had direct impacts on farmers and affects consumers&amp;rsquo; health, but also leads to resistance in plague organisms and a general decline in soil and water quality. There is an urgent need for more sustainable strategies of intensive vegetable production.&lt;/p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Aims and scope&amp;nbsp; &lt;p&gt;The aim of this symposium is to bring together knowledge on sustainable techniques of vegetable production, with emphasis on South East Asia. The emphasis of the symposium is on nutrient supply, fertilization, organic matter management and soil quality, but also other aspects of sustainable vegetable production including crop protection can be dealt with. Apart from oral and poster presentations on these topics, there will be dedicated sessions in working groups on at least two important cross-cutting issues: inventorization of existing research projects on sustainable vegetable production in the region (including ways how to better match these initiatives, and possibly leading to new project applications). A second is on eduction/training/extension in vegetable production.&lt;/p&gt;The symposium is intended for researchers, graduate and doctoral students, agricultural agencies and extension officers, policy makers, environmental agencies, etc. with a link to vegetable production.&amp;nbsp;Supported by ISHS&amp;nbsp;The symposium is supported by the ISHS Section Vegetables, the ISHS Working Group on Vegetable Nutrition and Fertilization and the ISHS Working Group on Sustainability through Integrated and Organic Horticulture.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;p&gt;Info: Prof. Dr. Stefaan De Neve, University of Gent, Coupure Links 653, 9000 Gent, Belgium. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt&quot; class=&quot;MsoPlainText&quot;&gt;E-mail: &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:stefaan.deneve@ugent.be&quot;&gt;stefaan.deneve@ugent.be&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dr. Sri Rochayati, Indonesian Soil Research Institute, Jl. Juanda, Bogor, Indonesia. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt&quot; class=&quot;MsoPlainText&quot;&gt;E-mail: &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:sri.rochayati@gmail.com&quot;&gt;sri.rochayati@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt&quot; class=&quot;MsoPlainText&quot;&gt;E-mail symposium: &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:VegSEA2011@ugent.be&quot;&gt;VegSEA2011@ugent.be&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
LOCATION: Salitiga, Indonesia (IDN)
PRIORITY:3
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