Three Pakistani scientists working at the Center for Agro-informatics Research (CAIR) have been selected to present their project reports in a symposium on agriculture being held in October at Beijing. The moot called the "International Symposium on Intelligent Information Technology in Agriculture" will be the third since its inception. The Pakistani scientists have been selected from the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences Islamabad's Centre for Agro-informatics Research (CAIR).
The University head Dr Amir Muhammad selected them while CAIR head and Associate Professor Ahsan Abdullah will lead them.
University officials said the research center was a "pioneering endeavour towards equipping national agriculture sector with latest and low-cost information technology processes for data acquisition, management and analysis. With agriculture contributing 24 per cent of our GDP with 70 per cent of the population dependent on it, the officials pointed out "the information technology was at the heard of economic revival of the country".
The CAIR scientists, they added so far contributed nearly 20 international publications in the state of the art fields of data warehousing, data mining, geographical information systems, remote sensing and bio informatics.