Brazil is one of the world's largest producers of sugar cane. Sugar cane agricultural operations account for approximately 67% of sugar and alcohol production costs and is a sector that makes intense use of technology. One of the most common problems in the agricultural information systems area is the difficulty of interoperability among agents in the production chain. The lack of a standard to represent the technical knowledge of the sugar cane agricultural operations makes it difficult to

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... e this knowledge, and it increases the cost of maintenance of expert systems. The present work proposes a conceptual model for a task ontology that represents the sugar cane agricultural operations in order to enable the interoperability between computational systems and the knowledge sharing by using an ontological formalism. The standards for agricultural data exchange, methods for task modeling and ontologies have been studied. The proposed conceptual model was based on an extension of an existing UML profile to represent tasks, but a notation to represent external tasks that can change its state was added. This notation did not exist in the original profile. The results were evaluated in relation to the conformity of the proposed extension with the meta-model of the original conceptual modeling language and the capacity of the model to represent the specific structures of the sugarcane agricultural operations. The proposed model could be implemented in RDF or OWL and allowing the interoperability between sugar cane software systems.