The 3rd International Online Conference on Agriculture
The 3rd International Online Conference on Agriculture
Part of the International Online Conference on Agriculture series
Event's Timezone: Central European Summer Time
24 June 2025
18 August 2025
15 October 2025
Crop Production, Farm Animal Production, Crop Protection, Climate-Smart Agriculture, Agricultural Systems and Management, Water Management, Smart Farming, Agricultural Soil, Crop Genetics Genomics and Breeding
Welcome from the Chair
Dear Colleagues,
It is a pleasure to announce the 3rd International Online Conference on Agriculture (IOCAG2025). This e-conference is organized by Agriculture, a peer-reviewed open access international journal of MDPI. The IOCAG2025 will be held online from 22 to 24 October 2025.
Agriculture was a major development in human history, which led to the rise and flourishing of civilization. It plays a critical role in human society, serving as the backbone of the economic system. Modern agriculture provides raw materials for most of the world’s food and for many industrial products, including textiles. Significant scientific and technological advances over the years have led to great increases in agricultural productivity as well as to reducing environmental impacts. Nevertheless, agricultural systems of the future face huge challenges in balancing and optimizing productivity and profitability against the stewardship of ecosystems and natural resources. This conference will provide an online open forum for agricultural scientists and engineers to discuss these challenges and share their latest research achievements in agricultural science and technology. Sessions of the conference will be organized around the following topics:
- Climate-Smart Agriculture: Practices, Determinants, Productivity, and Efficiency;
- Ecosystem, Environment, and Climate Change in Agriculture;
- Agricultural Systems and Management;
- Zero-Pollution Solutions in Crop Protection;
- Agriculture Water Management;
- Smart Farming: From Sensor to Artificial Intelligence;
- Agricultural Soil;
- Crop Production;
- Farm Animal Production;
- From Field to Consumers: Challenges and Approaches to High- Quality Agricultural Products;
- Crop Genetics, Genomics and Breeding.
The IOCAG2025 conference will bring together researchers from all over the world without concerns over travel or other related expenditures. The conference will feature live-streamed webinars and include both invited speakers and contributed speakers selected from the submissions received.
The conference invites submissions of abstracts, which will be reviewed by the Conference Committee. All accepted abstracts will be published on the conference’s website. In addition, all participants will be encouraged to submit a full paper to one dedicated Special Issue in Agriculture, with a 20% discount on the article processing charge (APC).
I hope that you will join this e-conference to exchange ideas, begin fruitful collaborations, and make the IOCAG2025 a great success.
Best regards,
Prof. Dr. Bin Gao
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Chair of the 3rd International Online Conference on Agriculture
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Event Chair
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Bin Gao is the Kodak Chair Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Prior to this, he was a Professor at the University of Florida, a Research Associate at Cornell University, and a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Yale University. He earned his PhD from Cornell University and his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Nanjing University. Prof. Gao’s research mainly focuses on biochar, environmental nanotechnology, and contaminant fate and transport.
Session Chairs
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sanzidur Rahman
School of Agriculture, Policy and Development (SAPD), University of Reading, UK
https://www.reading.ac.uk/agri-food-economics-marketing/our-staff/sanzidur-rahman
S1. Climate-Smart Agriculture: Practices, Determinants, Productivity, and Efficiency
Prof. Dr. Jianlin Shen
Institute of Subtropical Agriculture Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha 410125, China
https://isa.cas.cn/sourcedb/zw/zjrc/202012/t20201222_5873089.html
S2. Ecosystem, Environment, and Climate Change in Agriculture
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Luca Regni
Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Perugia, Borgo XX Giugno, 06121 Perugia, Italy
https://www.unipg.it/personale/luca.regni
S3. Agricultural Systems and Management
Dr. Azucena González Coloma
Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, CSIC, Serrano 115 dpdo, 28006 Madrid, Spain
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5124-664X
S4. Zero-Pollution Solutions in Crop Protection
Prof. Dr. Sien Li
Center for Agricultural Water Research in China, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China
http://faculty.cau.edu.cn/lse/list.htm
S5. Agricultural Water Management
Dr. Rui Costa Martins
Institute of Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC), 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
https://www.inesctec.pt/en/people/rui-costa-martins#intro
S6. Smart Farming: From Sensor to Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Margarita Ros
CEBAS-CSIC, Group of Soil Enzimology and Biorremediation and Organic Wastes, Campus de Espinardo, E-30100 Murcia, Spain
http://www.cebas.csic.es/dep_english/soil/enzimology/enzimo_lineas_en.html
S7. Agricultural Soil
Prof. Dr. Giovanni Dinelli
Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/giovanni.dinelli/
S8. Crop Production
Dr. Jalil Ghassemi Nejad
DaOne Chemical/Genebiotech Co., Ltd, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6578-8829
S9. Farm Animal Production
Prof. Dr. Isabel Lara
Department of Chemistry, Physics, Environmental and Soil Sciences (DQFAS), Universitat de Lleida, ETSEAFIV Campus, 25198 Lleida, Spain
Isabel Lara obtained her PhD at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), and currently holds a full professor position at the University of Lleida (UdL), Spain. Isabel’s research activity has been focused mainly on the biochemistry and physiology of fruit ripening, fruit quality and postharvest preservation of fresh produce. The main topics addressed include the biosynthesis of aroma volatile compounds, cell wall metabolism, controlled atmospheres and other postharvest treatments, and hormone interactions in fruit ripening. Current research interests include the role of fruit cuticle in modulating postharvest quality, shelf life/storage potential and the response to environmental conditions.
S10. From Field to Consumers: Challenges and Approaches to High- Quality Agricultural Products
Prof. Dr. Rodomiro Ortiz
Department of Plant Breeding, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE 2 3053 Alnarp, Sweden
Rodomiro Ortiz (Lima, Perú; 1958) is Faculty Professor and Chair of Genetics and Plant Breeding at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), and also SLU Breeding Network Chairman. He holds a PhD in Plant Breeding and Genetics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and worked as a young researcher at UNALM (Perú), Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP, Perú) and Rutgers University. Professor Ortiz has been a scientist and director of various CGIAR Centers (CIMMYT, ICRISAT, IITA), and held a Nordic professorship on plant genetic resources at the then Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University of Denmark (merged thereafter with the University of Copenhagen). Professor Ortiz has written ca. 1000 reports, of which about 50% are journal articles or edited book chapters; he has an h-index of 79; and he has been cited 25810 times [according to Google Scholar on 2024.08.07]. The CGIAR awarded to IITA the prestigious 1994 King Baudouin Award for the multidisciplinary research of the team working in plantain and banana improvement, in which he was program leader. In 2012, Plant Breeding Reviews dedicated their Volume 36 to him. Professor Ortiz was the principal investigator of the SLU/ICARDA-led research development partnership project Adapting durum wheat varieties to the Senegal Basin for food security, which won the 2017 Olam Prize for Innovation in Food Security. He was given the Bertebos Prize 2022 for mastering the use of new molecular scientific methods to be a driving force in the breeding of crops of great importance for food supply in Africa, America and Europe. Professor Ortiz was a member of the CGIAR Independent Science and Partnership Council (ISPC, 2015–2019) and the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture Intensification (CoSAI, 2020–2021), and he has been an international fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry (KSLA) since 2019, member of the Royal Physiographic Society at Lund (KFS) from 2021 onwards, and fellow of the African Academy of Sciences (FAAS) since 2021.
S11. Crop Genetics, Genomics and Breeding
Event Committee
Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, 411 Borlaug Hall, 1991 Upper Buford Circle, Saint Paul, MN 55108-6024, USA
phytochemicals; regulation of crop growth (cereals, legume grains and grapevine); induced resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses; integrated disease management; sustainable use of agricultural chemicals and biologicals; sustainable agriculture practice
College of Water Resources and Civil Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China
agricultural waste; food waste; anaerobic digestion; composting; life cycle assessment; dairy bedding; digestate utilization
Department of Animal Husbandry and Animal Welfare, Institute of Animal Sciences, Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Páter K. Str. 1., 2100 Gödöllő, Hungary
ruminants; pig; breeding; reproduction; gene conservation; local breeds
Department of Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
biobased and biodegradable agricultural plastics; impact of micro- and nanoplastics on agricultural ecosystems; surfactants and colloidal systems; small-angle scattering
Soil and Water Conservation Research Group, CEBAS-CSIC, 30100 Murcia, Spain
soil carbon sequestration; soil erosion; agriculture management practices; land use change; soil quality; soil physical properties; ecosystem services; climate change adaptation and mitigation in agriculture
Center for Industrial Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Institute of Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC), 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
Spectroscopy, modelling, systems biology, Agriculture 5.0, smart viticulture
Lacombe Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 6000 C&E Trail, Lacombe, AB T4L 1W1, Canada
meat quality; high-throughout technologies; chemometrics; sensory evaluation; flavourchemistry
The School of Agriculture and Environment, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
phytoremediation; fertilization; soil improvement; salt-affected soil reclamation; wetland
Department of Agricultural and Forestry sciences (DAFNE), University of Tuscia, Via S. Camillo de Lellis, SNC, 01100 Viterbo, Italy
agricultural machinery; occupational safety and health; ergonomics; agriculture; energy
Department of Horticulture, Aristotle University, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
cultivation techniques for vegetable production; quality of vegetable products; hydroponic vegetable production; postharvest physiology of vegetables; role of light on vegetables’ growth; quality of seedlings; quality and seed germination; vegetable graft
CIRAD, UMR AGAP (Amélioration Génétique et Adaptation des Plantes Méditerranéennes et Tropicales), 34398 Montpellier, France
rice based cropping systems; rice plant related research; genetics and plant breeding
Department of Human Science and Quality of Life Promotion, Università Telematica San Raffaele Roma,
Via di Val Cannuta 247, 00166 Rome, Italy
agricultural engineering; food science; environmental sustainability; Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA); waste management; wheat and bakery product; dough rheology; ancients wheats; food processing equipment; food processing and engineering; Extra Virgin Olive
climate-smart farming; food security; the application of ecological principles to the farming environment; plant microbial interactions; public engagement; agriculture, particularly the botany and agronomy of new crop species
National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University (NIE/NTU), 1 Nanyang Walk, Singapore 637 616, Singapore
photosynthesis; plant physiology; plant environmental stresses; plant abiotic stress; shoot-root communication
Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8589, Japan
organic matter management to enable soil carbon storage and improved crop productivity; appropriate land use management of peatlands
postharvest storage of fruits and vegetables; fruit quality; fruit ripening and senescence; physiological disorder; citrus fruit
Agrobiotechnology Department, Agrarian and Technological Institute, RUDN University, 117198 Moscow, Russia
plant pathology; bacteriology; plant protection
Institute of Sciences and Technologies for Sustainable Energy and Mobility (STEMS) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), Strada delle Cacce 73, 10135 Torino, Italy
agriculture; innovation; smart farming; sustainability; agricultural waste management; soil management; natural resources; occupational safety and health; ergonomics
Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China
pesticide application technology; environmental toxicology; environmental risk assessment; contamination remediation
INIAV—Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, Unidade de Tecnologia e Inovação, 2780-157 Oeiras, Portugal
Emerging Technologies; Food Technology; Food Science and Technology; Sustainability; quality and storage
Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Clemson University, 2200 Pocket Road, Florence, SC 29506, USA
molecular breeding; gluten content and composition; heat stress; genetic mapping; genome structure; genome editing
Department of Agriculture and Forest Sciences (DAFNE), University of Tuscia, 01100 Viterbo, Italy
agroecology; organic agriculture; integrated agriculture; fertilizer management; weed management; soil tillage; greenhouse gas emissions; carbon cycle
conservation tillage; field scale hydrology and soil erosion processes; cropping system analysis; water quality management; irrigation design; decision support design
agricultural ecology; agricultural system; modeling; low carbon emissions; agricultural systems
Horticultural Sciences Department, Southwest Florida Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS), Immokalee, FL 34142-9515, USA
hormonal regulation of citrus fruit abscission; citrus tree health; fruit maturation and quality; fruit senescence
Crop Science Research Center, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Piazza Martiri della Libertà 33, 56127 Pisa, Italy
agroecology and agrobiodiversity; food quality and nutraceutics; sustainable agricultural systems; soil biodiversity; soil quality; microbial biostimulants; arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; phosphate solubilizing bacteria; agricultural practices, agricultura
Department of Agronomy, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, 5000-801 Vila Real, Portugal
plant physiology; fruit quality; mitigation strategies against (a)biotic stress; antioxidant orquestra; sustainability
Laboratory of Plant Physiology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193 Barcelona, Spain
biotic and abiotic stresses; metal-hyperaccumulating plants; biostimulants; heavy metal stress; aluminium stress; phytohormones; salinity stress; drought stress; flooding; functional foods; selenium; crop Biofortification
The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food, and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel
new forage crops in the Mediterranean area; feed analysis and digestibility; agriculture and industrial by-products as feedstuff for ruminants; hydroponic green fodder; dairy goats; dairy cows; the impact of colostrum on the mature life in dairy goats
Monogastric Science Research Centre, Scotland’s Rural College, Easter Bush, Edinburgh EH25 9RG, Scotland, UK
poultry nutrition; nutrient digestibility; zoonotic pathogens and food safety; feed additive; soya replacers/alternative protein sources
Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
organic farming, agroecological practices, biodiversity and conservation of genetic resources of agricultural crops
Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Ilaria Marotti (PhD) is Assistant Professor at the Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Bologna (Italy). Her research interests and main field of expertise are resilient agro-ecology approaches in plant productivity and quality with a particular focus on bioactive compounds from food and no-food. crops (cereals, legumes, medicinal and aromatic plants) cultivated in sustainable agro-ecosystems. She has co-authored more than 70 scientific papers in international journals indexed by WoS and Scopus, as well as monographies, books, book chapters and conference proceedings. She also serves as editorial board member of international scientific journals covering agriculture and food subjects. In 2012 she received the 6th Montana Prize for Agri-food Research (category: Nutrition and Health).
medicinal and aromatic plants, food crops, agrobiodiversity, sustainable cropping systems, organic farming, natural products, phytochemicals, nutraceuticals, essential oils, bioactive compounds
Invited Speaker
Faculty of Engineering and Agricultural Sciences, National University Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza de Amazonas (UNTRM), Peru
Leveraging the promise of the forgotten crops of the Peruvian Andes
Carlos Arbizu is an Agricultural Engineer from the National Agrarian University-La Molina (UNALM, Peru, 2007) and holds a Ph.D. in Plant Breeding & Plant Genetics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA, 2017). He is currently a Full-Time Professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Agricultural Sciences at the National University Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza of Amazonas (UNTRM, Peru). Throughout his professional career, he has worked in international agricultural companies from the USA, Israel, and Peru as head of hybrid seed research. He has also been an associate researcher at UNALM and the National Agrarian Innovation Program (PNIA), as well as the director of the Subdirectorate of Research and Special Studies at the National Institute of Agrarian Innovation (INIA) in Peru. His research interests are plant genomics, phylogenomics, phenomics, and quantitative genetics. Throughout his career, he has published nearly 50 scientific papers in indexed journals. He is a member of various scientific organizations, such as the Genetics Society of America, the Botanical Society of America, the American Society of Plant Taxonomists, and the National Association of Plant Breeders. He currently serves as Vice-President of PeruBiotec and coordinates the Plant Breeding & Plant Genetics program of UNTRM.
Hub for Smallholders’ Agri-Tech Economics (HSATE), Department of Agricultural Economics, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh
Economics of labour saving agri-tech for smallholder farms
Mr. A. K. M. Abdullah Al-Amin is on the staff of the Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), Mymensingh, Bangladesh as an Associate Professor. Mr. Al-Amin was an Elizabeth Creak Fellow at Harper Adams University (HAU) in the United Kingdom and Visiting Scholar at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States. Mr. Al-Amin was recognised as “Outstanding Graduate Student 2022” by the International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA). In Bangladesh, he was awarded the “University Prize” and “Prime Minister Gold Medal-2014” for his excellent academic performance at Bachelor level. His research interests encompass agri-tech economics, especially precision agriculture focused on autonomous crop robots, economics of cropping and farming systems intensification, technology adoption, climate change adaptation and environmental conservation. Mr. Al-Amin is currently serving as an Associate Editor of ‘Agronomy’ Journal, (https://acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14350645) with focus on ‘Precision Conservation and Farming’ section. Mr. Al-Amin is the Founding Director of Hub for Smallholders’ Agri-Tech Economics (HSATE) based on the Department of Agricultural Economics at BAU, Mymensingh-2202, Bangladesh that envisages to guide smallholder farms production economics and farm management related policy decisions with evidence-based suggestions. For more details about Mr. Al-Amin research, please do visit: https://hsate.com/; https://www.bau.edu.bd/profile/AE1022.
Department of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences (DAFNE), University of Tuscia, Via San Camillo De Lellis s.n.c., 01100 Viterbo, Italy
Adapting Olive Cultivation to Climate and Market Pressures: The Role of Breeding Innovation
Cristian Silvestri is Associate Professor in Arboriculture and Fruit Culture at the Department of Agriculture and Forest Sciences (DAFNE), University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy). His research combines biotechnological innovation and genetic improvement, with a particular emphasis on temperate fruit such as olive and hazelnut, blueberry. He has extensive experience in plant tissue culture, somatic embryogenesis, and in vitro propagation techniques applied to olive breeding and conservation. Prof. Silvestri holds a PhD in Plant Biotechnology and has contributed significantly to the development of advanced tools for the genetic improvement of fruit tree species, especially hazelnut and olive. He has participated in several national and international research projects and currently serves as Italy’s National Correspondent for the International Association for Plant Biotechnology. He is also a member of leading scientific societies and serves on the editorial boards of many international Journals. As of March 2025, his Scopus metrics include 60 publications and a h-index of 17.
Sessions
S2. Ecosystem, Environment, and Climate Change in Agriculture
S3. Agricultural Systems and Management
S4. Zero-Pollution Solutions in Crop Protection
S5. Agricultural Water Management
S6. Smart Farming: From Sensor to Artificial Intelligence
S7. Agricultural Soil
S8. Crop Production
S9. Farm Animal Production
S10. From Field to Consumers: Challenges and Approaches to High- Quality Agricultural Products
S11. Crop Genetics, Genomics and Breeding
Registration
Registration for IOCAG 2025 will be free of charge! The registration includes attendance at all conference sessions.
If you are registering several people under the same registration, please do not use the same email address for each person, but their individual university email addresses. Thank you for your understanding.
Please note that the submission and registration are two separate parts. Only scholars who registered can receive a link to access the conference live streaming. The deadline for registration is 15 October 2025.
Instructions for Authors
The 3rd International Online Conference on Agriculture will accept abstracts only. The accepted abstracts will be available online on Sciforum.net during and after the conference.
1. Deadline for abstract submission: 24 June 2025.
2. Abstract Acceptance Notification: 18 August 2025. You will be notified of the acceptance of an oral/poster presentation in a separate email.
Certificates of Participation are available in your logged-in area of Sciforum.net, under “My certificates” after the conference.
Abstract submissions should be completed online by registering with www.sciforum.net and using the "Submit Abstract" function once logged into the system. No physical template is necessary.
1. The abstract structure should include the introduction, methods, results, and conclusions sections of about 250–300 words in length.
2. All accepted abstracts will be published in the conference report of The 3rd International Online Conference on Agriculture in Biology and Life Sciences Forum (ISSN: 2673-9976); if you wish to publish an extended proceeding paper (4-8 pages), please submit it to the same journal after the conference.
3. All abstracts should be submitted and presented in clear, publication-ready English with accurate grammar and spelling.
4. You may submit multiple abstracts. However, only one abstract will be selected for oral presentation.
5. All abstracts accepted for presentation will be collected in a book of abstracts, which will be published on the website after the conference.
Detailed Requirements:
1. The submitting author must ensure that all co-authors are aware of the contents of the abstract.
2. Please select only one presenter for each submission. If you would like to change the presenter after submission, please email us accordingly.
Note: We only accept live presentations.
The slot for the oral presentation is 15 mins. We advise that your presentation lasts for a maximum of 12 mins, leaving at least 3 mins for the Q&A session. Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint or similar software, to be displayed online along with the abstract. Slides, if available, will be displayed directly on the website using the proprietary slide viewer at Sciforum.net. Slides can be prepared in exactly the same way as for any traditional conference where research results are presented. Slides should be converted to PDF format prior to submission so that they can be converted for online display.
To recognize the research contributions of participants, we are very pleased to announce that instead of limiting poster presentations to a live poster session, all participants have the opportunity to upload and display their research in the form of a poster at the Poster Gallery on the conference website.
Benefits of submitting to our poster gallery
Unlike a live poster session, the poster gallery would be ‘LIVE’ throughout and available for viewing during and permanently after the event:
i) Showcase your research to an international audience
This provides an excellent opportunity for participants to publicize and be recognized by a broader international audience for their research.
ii) Award and Poster Certificate Opportunities
All participants with poster submissions are now eligible for the Best Poster Award, where winners of outstanding poster submissions will receive a certificate and 200 CHF! Moreover, All participants with poster submissions to the poster gallery are also entitled to obtain a poster participation certificate in recognition of their contributions.
All authors with accepted submissions who wish to display a poster in the gallery are invited to email it to iocag2025@mdpi.com. Please be advised that all successfully submitted posters will be permanently displayed online in the poster gallery.
a. Your submission should include the title, authors, contact details, and main research findings, as well as tables, figures, and graphs where necessary.
b. File format: PDF (.pdf).
c. Size in cm: 60 width x 80 height–portrait orientation.
d. Font size: ≥20.
e. Maximum size: 250 M and update the size of your PPT template into 60*80 cm.
Examples of successful submissions can be viewed here at the following links: (1), (2), (3)
You can use our free template to create your poster. The poster template can be downloaded here.
It is the authors' responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there is no conflict, please state "The authors declare no conflicts of interest." This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. Any financial support for the study must be fully disclosed in the "Acknowledgments" section.
MDPI, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting an abstract to this conference, you retain the copyright to the work, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this abstract online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your full paper (with the abstract) to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher if required.
Publication Opportunities
Agriculture Journal Publication
Participants in this conference are cordially invited to contribute a full manuscript to the conference's Special Issue, published in Agriculture (ISSN: 2077-0472, Impact Factor: 3.3), with a 20% discount on the publication fee. Details of the special issue will be announced here later. Please note that no other discounts are applicable. All submitted papers will undergo MDPI’s standard peer-review procedure. The abstracts should be cited and noted on the first page of the paper.
Proceeding Paper Publication
All accepted abstracts will be published in the conference report of IOCAG 2025 in Biology and Life Sciences Forum journal (ISSN: 2673-9976) after a quality check. If you wish to publish an extended proceeding paper (4-8 pages), please submit it to the same journal after the conference. Publication of the proceedings will be free of charge. Authors are asked to disclose that it is a proceeding paper of the IOCAG 2025 conference paper in their cover letter. Carefully read the rules outlined in the 'Instructions for Authors' on the journal’s website and ensure that your submission adheres to these guidelines.
Proceedings submission deadline:15 December 2025
Manuscripts for the proceedings issue must be formatted as follows:
Title;
Full author names;
Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses;
Abstract;
Keywords;
Introduction;
Methods;
Results and Discussion;
Conclusions;
Acknowledgements;
References.
Event Awards
To acknowledge the support of the conference's esteemed authors and recognize their outstanding scientific accomplishments, we are pleased to announce that the conference will provide four awards including Best Oral Presentation Awards and Best Poster Awards.
The Awards
Number of Awards Available: 4
The Best Oral Presentation Awards are given to the submission judged to make the most significant oral contribution to the conference.
The Best Poster Awards are given to the submission judged to make the most significant and interesting poster for the conference.
There will be four winners selected for these awards. The winner will receive a certificate and 200 CHF each.
Sponsors and Partners
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Organizers
Media Partners
Conference Secretariat
Ms. Leda Xuan
Dr. Patwira Boonjing
Email: iocag2025@mdpi.com
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