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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;">This is a call for statisticians, economists, researchers and analysts engaged in food, agriculture (crop, livestock, fish and forests)
and rural development sector to participate in the upcoming </span><b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Eighth International Conference on Agricultural Statistics (ICAS VIII)
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">International Conference on Agricultural Statistics (ICAS) is a series of conferences, sponsored by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), World
Bank (WB), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and other international development agencies. ICAS started in 1998 in response to overarching need for better agricultural data worldwide and is held every three years to address issues of agricultural
statistics (information/data) development. United States, Italy, Mexico, China, Uganda and Brazil have been the host countries for ICAS in the past. </span></font></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The theme of the ICAS-VIII is
</span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Statistics for Transformation of Agriculture to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. ICAS VIII will cover a wide variety of methodological, operational and strategic
subjects having bearing on agriculture and rural development, including use of technology for modernizing statistical systems and generating statistics. </span></font></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Details at </span><a href="https://icas2019.icar.gov.in/ca.aspx" id="LPlnk945690" class="x_OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">https://icas2019.icar.gov.in/ca.aspx</span></a></font><br>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Submit your abstracts by 10th June 2019. </span></font></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Best wishes,</span></font></p>
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