On Wednesday, 4 September 2024, the Department of Soil at the Faculty of Agriculture Universitas Gadjah Mada (Faperta UGM), organized a guest lecture themed “Micrometeorology Technology for Precision Agriculture and Carbon Farming.” The lecture was delivered by Prof. Cheng-I Hsieh from the Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering at National Taiwan University, held at the Prof. Harjono Danoesastro Auditorium.

During the session, Prof. Cheng-I Hsieh covered three key topics that are currently of significant interest among researchers: precision agriculture for farm management, indoor vertical farming, and carbon farming. He also highlighted the connection between smart agriculture, micrometeorology, and machine learning, which closely relates to artificial intelligence. In his presentation, he shared several case studies from Taiwan and discussed the results of his collaborative research on micrometeorology. read more

The Postgraduate Graduation Ceremony for Period I of the 2024/2025 Academic Year at the Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Gadjah Mada (Faperta UGM), was held on Thursday 24 October 2024, at the Prof. Harjono Danoesastro Auditorium. With a total of 78 Master’s graduates and 8 Doctoral graduates, Faperta UGM continues to demonstrate its capacity to produce outstanding graduates. One of the notable graduates this period is Dany Juhandi from the Doctoral Program in Agricultural Science, who achieved a perfect Grade Point Average (GPA) of 4.00 out of 4.00 through a collaboration with the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) under the Degree by Research (DBR) scholarship scheme. read more

Paguyuban Luhur Jiwo, as one of the targets of the community service team from the Agricultural Extension and Communication Study Program (Prodi PKP) at the Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Gadjah Mada, successfully won second place at the 2024 Asia-Pacific Local Leaders Forum for Disaster Resilience (APLL4DR) in Manila, the Philippines, on October 14, 2024. Paguyuban Luhur Jiwo, represented by Yustina Wardani, received support from the Prodi PKP community service team, coordinated by Mesalia Kriska, S.P., M.Sc., particularly in the creation of a profile video of the community’s activities, which was compiled by Abdurahman Agosto, S.T., and Ishadiyanto Salim, S.Pd., M.Pd. as a supporting element for the presentation. read more