Welcome

The IGA country representative for Portugal in association with National Serrana Goat Breeders Association (ANCRAS), the Agriculture School (ESA) of the Bragança Polytechnic Institute (IPB) and the Mountain Research Centre (CIMO), are going to organize The Second Portuguese Goat Production Meeting.

The meeting will be held in Mirandela (Portugal) from 28 to 30 October/2010. The main subject areas covered Meat and Milk production, Animal Breeding and Genetics, Nutrition, Biology of Goat Production Systems, Behaviour, Welfare and Health. Round tables, paper sessions presentations /discussion and technical visits to goat farmers will be an exciting opportunity for breeders, students, professors and researchers to meet and spend time in a friendly way for the benefit of Portuguese Goat Production.

Welcome to Mirandela (Portugal) next October/2010.

Provisional Programme

28 October (Thursday)

08h00 – Registration

09h00 – Opening Ceremony

Session I – Meat Production

10h00 – Invited Conference

10h30 – Free communications

Lunch

Session II – Milk Production

14h00 – Invited conference

14h30 – Free communications

Session III – Health and Welfare

17h30 – Invited conference

18h00 – Free communications

29 October (Friday)

Session IV – Reproduction and Genetics

09h00 – Invited conference

09h30 – Free communications

Session V – Production systems

11h00 – Invited Conference

11h30 – Free communications

Lunch

14h30 – Roundtable “Production constraints and strategies”

20h00 – Meeting Dinner

30 October (Saturday)

ANCRAS day celebration

Lunch celebration / Barbecue

Technical visit and practice sessions

Accomodation

The conference secretariat will not be responsible for booking accommodation

Participants are invited to book accommodation directly with the hotels.

Hotel addresses from Mirandela, see at:

http://esa.ipb.pt/capra2010/index.php/alojamento

Further Information

For all additional information, please contact:

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Call for papers

All authors wishing to present papers at the meeting are requested to submit the papers before 30 September.

Authors should indicate the type of presentation (oral or as a poster).

Papers with a maximum of 5 pages, should be written according the Word file template  that can be downloaded at

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The responsible contact person will inform authors before 6 October whether their papers have been accepted for presentation during the meeting.

Registration Fees

100 €

The Registration fee includes: attendance to all sessions; conference documentation, proceedings, coffe breaks, lunches (3 days) and meeting dinner (friday).

Payment Method  (Bank Transfer)

Bank transfer in Euro to:

IBAN:  PT50004520474008548798449

BIC/SWIFT: CCCMPTPL

BANK: CA Crédito Agrícola

Account holder: ANCRAS

Do not forget to include your name with your bank transfer, please. All bank fees should be included.

The conference secretariat will not be responsible for identifying funds transferred directly into the account when the name of the participant is not mentioned. Neither, bank charges or bank fees associated with the transfer will be accepted.

Please send us a copy of your bank payment receipt by fax at (+351) 278 265 116

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