Tropentag is a good platform for getting connected and to know about the various opportunities and current trends in agriculture and natural resource management research, according to three agricultural graduates from the University of Hohenheim. Master's student Dusenthi Manoharan thinks the conference is a good starting point for young researchers. She is presenting her work on a course module of Food Ethics in the Vulnerable People that she helped designed this year. As an advocate for Food Ethics her experience from last year’s theme "World Food System - A Contribution from Europe” in Zurich, Switzerland was contrary to the actual practicality during the conference meals. Meanwhile, Arisoa Rajaona is of the opinion that Tropentag, though engaging, is also stressful because of the broad range of topics discussed over just three days. As many topics are presented in parallel sessions, students generally are not able to attend all areas of their interest. On the contrary, Suchit Shrestha, who has been an organizer and a participant himself, believes that the time frame is not an issue. He received the Best Poster Award in 2005 for a research related to Nitrogen Dynamics. He believes that this is a venue to promote your work. Though initially it was only a conference for German universities, it now caters to an international audience. If you go to the Tropentag, you enter the whole world! (Minette Flora de Asis, Divya Rajeswari Swaminathan, Priyanka Parvathi, Daniel Deichert)