A Report on the 40th International Symposium Actual Tasks on Agricultural Engineering, 21-24 February 2012, Opatija, Croatia

The 40th International Symposium, Actual Tasks on Agricultural Engineering, was held on 21-24 February 2012 in the “Grand Hotel Adriaticâ€, Opatija, in the Republic of Croatia. It was organized by the Agricultural Engineering Department of the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Zagreb, and was supported by the Department of Agricultural Engineering of the Faculty of Agriculture of the J.J. Strossmayer University, Osijek, the Department of Bio-Systems Engineering of the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Maribor, Slovenia, the Agricultural Institute of Slovenia, the Hungarian Institute of Agricultural Engineering Gödöllö, and the Croatian Agricultural Engineering Society. The Symposium also enjoyed the support of the CIGR publishing house, the EurAgEng (the European Society of Agricultural Engineers), the AAAE (the American Association for Agricultural Education), the AAESEE (the Association of Agricultural Engineers of South Eastern Europe), and the ASABE (the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers).