Das Leibniz-Institut für Plasmaforschung und Technologie (INP) lädt ein zum 3rd International Workshop on Plasma Agriculture
THE LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR PLASMA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (INP) INVITES YOU TO THE 3RD INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON PLASMA AGRICULTURE
The 3rd International Workshop on Plasma Agriculture (IWOPA) will take place from 1 to 3 March 2021. The event, which will be held as an online congress, will be officially opened with welcoming addresses by the host Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Weltmann, Chairman of the Board and Scientific Director of the Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP), Dr. Jürgen Buchwald, State Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, and Prof. Dr. Johanna Eleonore Weber, Rector of the University of Greifswald.
The INP Director successfully brought this high-profile event in the field of plasma applications in agriculture and the food industry to Europe for the first time in 2018 at IWOPA-2 in Japan. "The use of physical technologies in agriculture and the food industry is highly topical in view of the public and scientific discussions about replacing herbicides such as glyphosate and the need to increase agricultural yields in order to feed the world's population. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania will gain further international recognition with IWOPA-3. The results of the BMBF joint project "Physics for Food", in which several regional companies, farmers, the Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences and the INP are involved, will contribute to this in particular," said Klaus-Dieter Weltmann.
IWOPA is an interdisciplinary meeting for the exchange of the latest results of further developments, ideas and future challenges in the field of plasma and agriculture. The conference aims to promote research, development and application of physical processes and technologies in agriculture in order to create alternatives to chemical methods, among other things.
The central topics of the conference include food safety, preservation, storage and transport, seed germination, plant growth and development, biological processes such as stress reactions or resistance, and methods and techniques for treating seeds and plants.
IWOPA-3 is an important building block in the scientific discourse on the provision of new technologies in agriculture. Leading scientists from Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Serbia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and the United States have confirmed their participation.
