Letter from TSAE President The TSAE 2016 Conference is The 17th TSAE National Conference and the 9th TSAE International Conference. We go by the theme “Beyond Great Agro”. We are proud to organise along with SIMA ASEAN Thailand 2016 which provide wider vision than just conference. Since the SIMA show is one of biggest Agri-business Show in the world held in Paris from 1870. I hope that the technology shows in this exhibition will build our perspective Beyond Great Agro. In my point of view regarding agricultural technology, Farm Machinery and Agricultural Engineering is heading to Precision Farming. Labor shortage is the first signal to tell us that we need agricultural machineries instead. Climate changes effect farming seasons, are the second signal to tell us using data information and forecasting models for farm system. Facing short preparation period and long drought or big flood forces us to use high performance machineries. The high quality along with high price of seeds confirm the need of high precision farm machineries. Experience of operators has been changed, new generation farmers are familiarly with auto-controller than manually control. The auto-pilot systems are the need for next generation farm. In the view of farm machinery management, the cyber is the most influence in technologies transfer. Manufacturers and Trader can contact without face to face meeting as ever. The country boundaries has dissolved. Cross boundary farming will be common business in the future. We need to be in networking. In this moment, TSAE has networked with many of farm machinery associations and organisations such as CSAM, AMA, ANTAM, ACABE, FTI, KAMICO, TMA, TAMMA, PSAE, MSAE, VSAGE, research associations, etc. That is our preparation to go smart in our future agriculture world. In the 17th TSAE National Conference and the 9th TSAE International Conference, TSAE arrange 82 articles of research papers in the field of Power and Machinery, Soil and Water Engineering, Energy and Environment, Electronics and Information Technology and Post-harvest and Food Engineering. We are proud to express our keynote speakers consists of: Dr. Katinka Weinberger, the OiC of CSAM in “Perspectives on Agricultural Machinery in Asia-Pacific Region”, Assoc. Prof. Ahamed Tofael, University of Tsukuba, Japan in “Precision Agriculture and Remote Sensing Technologies”, and Mr. Tawat Sutasineenon, Head of Technology and Development, Global Innovation Incubator, Thai Union Group Public Co., Ltd. in “What the Food Industry is Expecting from Academic Researchers”. I believe that the success of farming and agi-business develop from knowledge, technologies, planning, and management. Agricultural engineering is all of them.
Dares Kittiyopas President Thai Society of Agricultural Engineering emails: dares.doae@gmail.com, dares@tsae.asia, dares@doae.go.th