Sub Themes

1. 2.1

   Subtheme 2.1: Climate-smart Plant Protection

   • Climate change driven pest risks and global food security 
   • Climate-resilient integrated pest management
   • Pest surveillance and early warning systems
   • Climate, bio diversity  loss and one health approach 
2. 2.2

   Subtheme 2.2: Sustainable Pest Management and Pesticide Problems

   • Plant protection and sustainability challenges 
   • Global surge in pesticide use
   • Plant protection & UN Sustainable Goals 
   • Eco-friendly chemical controls 
   • Bio-pesticides, biotechnology and molecular approaches, 
   • Research gaps in terms of alternative solutions for the management 
   • Policies and goals in plant protection 
   • Environmental, economic, human health costs of pesticides
   • Impacts of plant protection innovations at farm, regional and country level (IPM, pesticide reduction programmes, EU Sustainable Use of Pesticides Directive)
3. 2.3

   Subtheme 2.3: Digital Plant Health Management

   • Artificial intelligence and machine learning in plant protection
   • Precision crop protection and drone technologies 
   • Digital surveillance and pest diagnostics 
   • Digital agriculture ecosystems
4. 2.4

   Subtheme 2.4: Bio-pesticide and Bio-rational solutions

   • New generation biological crop protection products (botanicals, microbial) 
   • Green chemistry for sustainable crop protection                                        
   • Biologicals in mainstream agriculture
   • Global commerce of bio-products 
5. 2.5

   Subtheme 2.5: Sustainable Agro chemistry and Judicious Chemical Stewardship

   • Judicious and rational use of safe, low-hazard chemical pesticides
   • Next-generation formulation technologies for targeted delivery
   • Pesticide residue mitigation, Maximum Residue Limits (MRLS)FAO/WHO database, and food safety
   • Resistance risk assessment and chemical alternation strategies
   • Policy, regulatory science, and farmer stewardship programs
6. 2.6

   Subtheme 2. 6: Invasive Alien Species and Biosecurity Challenges

   • Emerging invasive species under global change
   • Biosecurity and quarantine innovations
   • Integrated management of invasive species
   • Global case studies and international collaboration for invasive pest management
7. 2.7

   Subtheme 2.7: Next Generation Tactics for Sustainable Plant Health

   • RNA technologies and precision pest management
   • CRISPR and genome editing and future crop protection
   • Microbiome and endophyte based plant health management
   • Advanced biological innovations
   • Insect resistance management in the genomic era
8. 2.8

   Subtheme 2.8: Innovative Cropping Practices for Enhanced Food Security and Safety

   • Ecological crop protection
   • Cropping systems for pest suppression
   • Food safety and zero-residue agriculture
   • Circular bio-economy in plant protection
   • Satellite Session on Fruit flies
     •  Biogeography of fruit flies.
     • Area wide management of fruit flies.
     • Academia and Industry collaboration.
     • Viral diseases of crops and their management.