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Welcome Speech from General Chair

Assalamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu,
Good Morning,
Praise to Allah, the Most Gracious and the Most Merciful,
which allow us to gather in this important activity.
Honourable Rector Universitas Syiah Kuala,
Honourable Vice Rector Universitas Syiah Kuala,
Honourable Dean Agriculture Faculty Universitas Syiah Kuala
Honourable Vice Dean Agriculture Faculty Universitas Syiah Kuala
Honourable all invited Speakers
Honourable all sponsors
Distinguished paper presenters, participants, Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen

It is my pleasure to welcome you all participants of the 2 International
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Conference on Agriculture and Bioindustry (ICAGRI-2020), Thank you for coming
and join us today.

I also would like to appreciate for the entire committee of 2nd ICAGRI who had hard
work to prepare this Virtual Conference.

Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen,
Reflecting back on successfully the 1 ICAGRI on 2019 that have been held on very
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great Hotel in Aceh, but this year on the 2 ICAGRI we could not do the same way
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because of pandemic covid 19 over the world that have limited us to do more in
activities. From our deep pleasure, please enjoy this virtual meeting and please
feeling like we are gathering together on the same place.

Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen,
The theme of this ICAGRI Conference is “New Shape of Sustainable Agriculture and

Biosystem for Food Security After Global COVID-19 Pandemic”.
Why we choice this theme because a recent global pandemic has brought significant
socio-economic disruption over all countries, particularly in agriculture industry,
bio-system, and food security. In response to the situation, we build network to help
mitigate and minimize problem in agriculture industry and food systems during and
post-crisis.

To dissolve those problems, We are proud to invited very excellent speaker from
broad country Prof. Michael Goodin from University of Kentucky, United States;
Prof. Dr. Arif Satria, SP, MSi from IPB University, Indonesia; Prof. George
Papadakis from Agricultural University of Athens also the leader of SFarm
Project, Erasmus-Program of EU from Greece; Dr. Stephen G. Compton from
University of Leeds, United Kingdom and Hasegawa Koichi PhD, from Chubu
University, Japan

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