The Georgian Academy of Agricultural Sciences announces with great sadness that Professor Antonio Michele Stanca, President of the UEAA, Vice President of the Accademia dei Georgofili (Italy) passed away   on March 19, 2020, victim of coronavirus infection spread in Italy.

Professor Antonio Michele Stanca was a great friend of the Georgian Academy of Agricultural Sciences. He took an active part in the International Scientific Conference held in Georgian Academy of Agricultural Sciences. The conference "Wheat in European Countries and Georgia as one of the origin of Wheat" was held in October 2019. With his initiative It was planned in September 2020 to hold in Georgian Academy of Agricultural Sciences a meeting of the General Assembly of the Union of European Academies of Agriculture, Food and Nature and to organize the International Scientific Conference about "Mechanization of Agriculture in Europe and its Perspectives".

Presidium of Georgian Academy of Agricultural Sciences expresses its deepest condolences to the family of Professor Michele Stanca and the Union of European Academies of Agriculture, Food and Nature.