Gadkari unveils book ‘Crop Health Management - An Indian Story’
03 Dec 2020 07:56:48
Business Bureau :
2020, a historical year, has also been regarded by the United Nations as the ‘International Year of Plant Health (IYPH)’. In this context, the South Asia Biotechnology Centre (SABC) a not-for-profit organisation has prepared a comprehensive book ‘Crop Health Management - An Indian Story’, upholding the essence of the year. The book is a seminal work to the cause of nations global campaign for crop health management. The book presents an account of the current scenario and prospects about crop health management in a simple to understand and effective manner.
While covering the various aspects of integrated pest management (IPM), Indian pesticide industry, biocontrol, organic farming, and other issues, the authors Dr C D Mayee, Govind Gujar, Yashika Kapoor and Bhagirath Choudhury have presented new scientific and business dimensions of crop health. Union Minister for Road, Transport and Highways and Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Nitin Gadkari has released the book ‘Crop Health Management - An Indian Story’ published by South Asia Biotechnology Centre, in presence of Kamal Patel, Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of Madhya Pradesh.
Dr T Mohapatra, DG ICAR and Secretary DARE, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare highlights that agricultural science in the event of increasing population aims at increasing food production. Ravi Boratkar, President, Agrovision Foundation, Nagpur has recounted working with SABC to manage the pink bollworm in cotton in Vidarbha region as part of national campaign on ‘War on pink bollworm’ and invited farmers to take part in 12th Agrovision in February.