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The 3rd International Online Conference on Agriculture

Part of the International Online Conference on Agriculture series
22–24 Oct 2025
Event's Timezone: Central European Summer Time
Abstract Submission Deadline
24th June 2025
Abstract Acceptance Notification
18th August 2025

Registration Deadline
15th October 2025

Crop Production, Farm Animal Production, Crop Protection
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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
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

Introduction
Bio
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

Introduction
Bio
https://www.reading.ac.uk/agri-food-economics-marketing/our-staff/sanzidur-rahman
Session
S1. Climate-Smart Agriculture: Practices, Determinants, Productivity, and Efficiency

Prof. Dr. Jianlin Shen

Institute of Subtropical Agriculture Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changsha 410125, China

Introduction
Bio
https://isa.cas.cn/sourcedb/zw/zjrc/202012/t20201222_5873089.html
Session
S2. Ecosystem, Environment, and Climate Change in Agriculture

Dr. Azucena González Coloma

Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, CSIC, Serrano 115 dpdo, 28006 Madrid, Spain

Introduction
Bio
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5124-664X
Session
S4. Zero-Pollution Solutions in Crop Protection

Dr. Rui Costa Martins

Institute of Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science (INESC TEC), 4200-465 Porto, Portugal

Introduction
Bio
https://www.inesctec.pt/en/people/rui-costa-martins#intro
Session
S6. Smart Farming: From Sensor to Artificial Intelligence

Prof. Dr. Isabel Lara

Department of Chemistry, Physics, Environmental and Soil Sciences (DQFAS), Universitat de Lleida, ETSEAFIV Campus, 25198 Lleida, Spain

Introduction
Bio
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.
Session
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

Introduction
Bio
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.
Session
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

Introduction
Research Keywords
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

Introduction
Research Keywords
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

Introduction
Research Keywords
ruminants; pig; breeding; reproduction; gene conservation; local breeds

Department of Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA

Introduction
Research Keywords
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

Introduction
Research Keywords
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

Introduction
Research Keywords
Spectroscopy, modelling, systems biology, Agriculture 5.0, smart viticulture

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

Procedure for Submission

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.

Important Deadlines

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 Submission

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.

Oral Presentation and Slides Submission

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.

Poster Gallery 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.

Poster Preparation Guide

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.

Potential Conflicts of Interest

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.

Copyright

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

Biology and Life Sciences Forum Template

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
Best Oral Presentation Award and Best Poster Award

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


For information regarding sponsorship and exhibition opportunities, please click here.

Organizers


Media Partners

Conference Secretariat

Ms. Leda Xuan
Ms. Patwira Boonjing
Email: iocag2025@mdpi.com

For inquiries regarding submissions and sponsorship opportunities, please feel free to contact us.

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