Date      : 18&19 May 2023

Venue  : Hotel Furama, Chiang Mai, Thailand

May 18 – Maejo University (MJU) successfully hosted the 8th UC Graduate Forum at the Furama Hotel in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The forum was jointly organized by the Southeast Asian University Consortium for Graduate Education in Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC), while the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) served as the secretariat. The theme for the forum was "Future of Agriculture Sustainability: Organic Intelligent Agriculture." A total of 54 research papers were presented during the plenary and parallel sessions on four subthemes.

One of the research officers from the Institute of Plantation Studies (IKP), Mrs Siti Nooradzah Adam was sponsored by SEARCA to attend the forum and present her research entitled "Development of an Early Detection Method of Bacterial heart rot disease in Pineapple using Spectroscopic Technology" in the Digital Agro-Economy: BCG Model, Digital Economics, and Farm Management parallel session.

Having convened at least 70 researchers, experts, practitioners, policymakers, and students from Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Taiwan, the graduate forum successfully facilitated the exchange of ideas, cutting-edge advancement discussions, and strategies to overcome the challenges facing food and agriculture systems.

Date of Input: 28/06/2023 | Updated: 28/06/2023 | ainzubaidah