The 3rd International Online Conference on Agriculture
The 3rd International Online Conference on Agriculture (IOCAG2025) Successfully Concluded!
The Best Oral Presentation Awards and Best Poster Awards of IOCAG2025 have been evaluated. Please refer to the Award Winners Announcement.
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Participants in this conference are cordially invited to contribute a full manuscript to the conference's the Special Issue published in Agriculture (ISSN: 2077-0472, Impact Factor: 3.6), with a 20% discount on the publication fee. All accepted papers will be mentioned in the conference report in the Biology and Life Sciences Forum (ISSN: 2673-9976). For more details click here.
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 (ISSN: 2077-0472, Impact Factor: 3.6, CiteScore: 6.3), 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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Important Dates
- Abstract submission deadlineJul 18, 2025
- Abstract acceptance notificationSep 01, 2025
- Registration end dateOct 15, 2025
Meet Our Speakers
Prof. Dr. Veera Gnaneswar Gude
School of Sustainability Engineering and Environmental Engineering, Purdue Unviersity, West Lafayette, IN, USA, Professor and Director, Purdue University Northwest Water Institute, Purdue University Northwest, Hammond, IN, USA;
Dr. Veera Gnaneswar Gude is Professor of Civil Engineering and NiSource-Meyer Charitable Foundation Professor of Energy and the Environment in the department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering at Purdue University Northwest (Hammond, IN) and Professor of Environmental and Ecological Engineering at Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN). Dr. Gude is also the director of Purdue University Northwest Water Institute (PWI). His current research interests include anaerobic digestion, agrivoltaics, cybersecurity of bioenergy systems, desalination, energy-water- -environment nexus, hydroponics, resource recovery for sustainable agriculture and sustainable energy systems development. His research efforts received funding from NSF, USEPA, USGS, DOI and USDA and other industry and international agencies. He patented and implemented thermal desalination and algal biofuel technologies with industry partners. Prof. Gude published over 150 scientific research articles and 9 books on bioenergy, desalination, and wastewater treatment research.
Dr.Gude’s contributions to the fields of desalination (low temperature desalination and microbial desalination), wastewater treatment (energy and nutrient recovery), and bioenergy research (biomass and biofuels) are well recognized by the scientific community across the world. He serves on several editorial boards, leadership and advisory boards for various scientific agencies and professional societies around the world. He was elevated to the rank of Fellow by the American Society of Civil Engineers and Environmental and Water Resources Institute of ASCE for his contributions to the environmental engineering and science research and education.
Dr. Nikoletta Ntalli
Analytical Chemistry and Pesticides Laboratory, Department of Agriculture Crop Production and Rural Environment, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece;
Dr. Nikoletta Ntalli (Scopus ID: 26029980300) is an Assistant Professor of Pesticides at the Department of Agriculture, Crop Production and Rural Environment, School of Agricultural Sciences, University of Thessaly in Greece. Previously she has been employed as a Researcher at the Department of Pesticides Control & Phytopharmacy, Benaki Phytopathological Institute in Greece. She has also worked for the development and registration of pesticides at Bayer CropScience and Expedia Srl. She is specialized in the development of ecofriendly-low input pesticides of natural origin. Her research interest includes pest management with eco-friendly tools; bioactivity of botanical secondary metabolites, chemistry of bioactive extracts of natural origin; organic soil amendments with plant protection properties; biostimulants; mode of action and synergism of bioactive molecules; formulation of bioactive compounds; side effects on non-target organisms and soil communities. She has published more than 6 book chapters and 60 scientific papers in SCI journals. https://agr.uth.gr/en/person/ntalli-nikoletta/
Dr. Rick van de Zedde
Netherlands Plant Eco-phenotyping Centre, Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands;
Rick van de Zedde is the Program Manager of the new phenotyping facility NPEC at WUR. He has worked at WUR since 2004. His background is in Artificial Intelligence with a focus on imaging and robotics. In 2002, he graduated with an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Groningen. Netherlands Plant Eco-phenotyping Centre (NPEC) - www.npec.nl - provides a versatile modular platform that will enable Dutch and international scientists, both academic and R&D, to carry out accurate high-throughput phenotyping: studies of plant performance in relation to relevant biotic and abiotic factors across a range of scales, from molecule to crop, from nm to km. NPEC is an integrated, national research facility housed by Wageningen University & Research and Utrecht University and is co-funded by The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
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Prof. Dr. Leo Marcelis
Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands;
Prof. Dr. Leo Marcelis is a leading researcher in horticultural science at Wageningen University & Research, combining deep physiological insight with modelling and applied experimentation to realise sustainable, efficient and high-quality crop production in greenhouses and vertical farms. His work on plant physiological fluxes, source/sink relationships, LED lighting and controlled environments places him at the forefront of modern horticultural science—making his research and collaborations highly relevant for anyone working in crop physiology, monitoring and modelling in controlled systems.
- S1. Climate-Smart Agriculture: Practices, Determinants, Productivity, and Efficiency
- S2. Ecosystem, Environment, and Climate Change in Agriculture
- S3. Agricultural Systems and Management
- S4. Zero-Pollution Solutions in Crop Protection
- S5. Agricultural Water Management
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On behalf of the chair of IOCAG2025, we are pleased to announce the winners of the Best Oral Presentation Awards and Best Poster Awards.
The Best Oral Presentation Awards have been awarded to:
| ID | Title | Authors |
| sciforum-139280 | Development of a Low-Cost, Solar-Powered Smart Evaporative Cooling Storage System to Extend the Shelf Life of Fruits and Vegetables in Tropical Regions | Md Rayhan Mahmud, Jamima Tahrin Abanty, Kazi Md Mehedi Hasan, Md Mamunur Rashid, Md Ashikur Rahman, Digonta Chandra Roy, Md Shaha Nur Kabir |
| sciforum-138716 | Agarwood (Aquilaria malaccensis) tolerates short-term drought but shows severe morpho-physiological and biochemical changes under prolonged drought | Rahela Khatun, Md. Shariar Hossain Sazzad, Md Sajib Mia, Md. Farhan Shahriar, Anna O'Brien, Md Sazan Rahman, Anthony S. Davis, Romel Ahmed |
The Best Poster Awards have been awarded to:
| ID | Title | Authors |
| sciforum-132539 | Grant sparkling wines an identity: a strategy to address the wine sector crisis | Teodora Basile, Giambattista Debiase, Francesco Mazzone, Maria Francesca Cardone |
| sciforum-139111 | Evaluation of olive mill wastewater as a biostimulant for wheat growth under salinity stress | Rocío Asencio-Vicedo, Cristina García-Cano, Antonio Sánchez-Sánchez, Juana D. Jordá, Mar Cerdán, Borja Ferrández-Gómez |
IOCAG 2025
Day 1
Session 10. From Field to Consumers: Challenges and Approaches to High-Quality Agricultural Products
Session 4. Zero-Pollution Solutions in Crop Protection
Session 8. Crop Production
Day 1 (Parallel Session)
Session 1. Climate-Smart Agriculture: Practices, Determinants, Productivity, and Efficiency
Day 2
Session 9. Farm Animal Production
Session 5. Agricultural Water Management
Session 6. Smart Farming: From Sensor to Artificial Intelligence
Session 2. Ecosystem, Environment, and Climate Change in Agriculture
Day 3
Session 3. Agricultural Systems and Management & Flash Poster Session
Session 7. Agricultural Soil
Session 11. Crop Genetics, Genomics and Breeding
Connect with the agronomy and agricultural sciences community in-person!
We are pleased to annouce that the upcoming 2026 International Conference on Agriculture Sciences would be held in Bologna, Italy from 21–23 October 2026.
Ms. Leda Xuan
Dr. Patwira Boonjing
Email: iocag2025@mdpi.com
For inquiries regarding submissions and sponsorship opportunities, please feel free to contact us.