Souvenir-cum-Abstract Book: National Conference on Priorities in Crop Protection for Sustainable Agriculture

Green Revolution technologies were inappropriate for marginal and poor farmers, but peasants were excludedfrom access to credit, information, technical support and other services that would have helped them use andadapt these new inputs if they so desired. Clearly, the historical challenge for the publicly funded agriculturalresearch community is to refocus its efforts on marginalized farmers and agro ecosystems and become catalysts intheir sustained growth, which will lead to the welfare of agriculture and country. Keeping in view the huge scopeof the crop protection in NEH region, Central Agricultural University, Imphal and ICAR-NBAIR, Bengaluruare organizing a three day national conference on “Priorities in Crop Protection for Sustainable Agriculture” from 16 th to 18 th March, 2021 at College of Agriculture, Iroisemba, Manipur, India.In this Souvenir-cum-Abstract Book, several aims to take stock of the prevailing agricultural resourcesand their pest management strategies and how to augment them so that its benefits are reaped by the smallstakeholders residing in diverse and adverse conditions in a sustainable way based on the use of local resourcesand indigenous knowledge. Earnest efforts have therefore, been made to compile information on above theme in a systematic manner, grouped in different chapters and presented in the form of “Souvenir-cum-Abstract Book:National Conference on Priorities in Crop Protection for Sustainable Agriculture”.&nbsp