Aarhus University 6 April 2010

Inauguration Ceremony of CIGR Ejournal Handover to China

Formal Announcement

CIGR have over the past two years invested large efforts in moving the CIGR Ejournal into a higher and more automated level of operation.  The Journal is in an online management system with a well established review and documentation process by Professor Fedro Zazueta, who has been acting as Editor-in-Chief since Professor Bill Stout retired as Editor-in-Chief of the Ejournal.

In the meantime comprehensive negotiations were carried out between the Chinese Ag. Eng. Societies, CSAM and CSAE and CIGR on the appointment of a Chinese Editor-in-Chief for the next years. On October 16 2009 a “Co-operation Agreement between The Chinese Society for Agricultural Machinery (CSAM) and The Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering (CSAE) and The International Commission of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering” was signed at CSAM.  This Co-operation Agreement is subject to the bylaws of the journal Agricultural Engineering International.

By this formal announcement CIGR would like to welcome this co-operation with CSAM, CSAE and the new Editor-in-Chief Wang Yingkuan, who is an experienced and formally trained editor.

I wish you a pleasant video conference on the Inauguration Ceremony on April 7 2010 and looks forward to a fruitful co-operation for the years to come.

Best regards

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Aarhus University, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Biosystems Engineering.

Mail address:  Soeren Pedersen, Birketoften 1, DK- 8700 Horsens, Denmark

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