<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"arial narrow","sans-serif"">Dear Colleagues</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"arial narrow","sans-serif""><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"arial narrow","sans-serif"">We take this
opportunity and great pleasure to announce the<b> </b></span><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"arial narrow","sans-serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)">INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE ON EMERGING TRENDS INTEGRATED PEST AND DISEASE MANAGEMENT FOR
QUALITY FOOD PRODUCTION</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"arial narrow","sans-serif";color:rgb(0,32,96)"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"arial narrow","sans-serif"">scheduled to be held
from <b><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96)">July 25-27, 2017</span></b> at <b><span style="background:lime none repeat scroll 0% 0%">The Waterfront
Hotel, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia</span></b>. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"arial narrow","sans-serif"">The integrated pest management
(IPM) has an important role in sustainable agriculture and quality food
production by providing maximum economic yields to the farmer, while improving
or maintaining the production site and protecting the environment. The
procedures to improve economic yields while reducing inputs include: the
integration of pesticides with cultural techniques for disease control; and
biological, behavioral, and environmental controls of pests such as weeds.
Especially biological and biotechnological control methods have a vital
importance as the alternatives to chemical control in integrated pest
management. Biotechnology promises to have a major impact on IPM through the
use of recombinant DNA techniques to genetically engineer microbes for the
control of diseases, insects, and weeds, and to generate plants that resist
insects, pathogens, and herbicides.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"arial narrow","sans-serif"">The international
conference on emerging trends integrated pest and disease management for
quality food production is being organized by <b><span style="background:lime none repeat scroll 0% 0%">V Sivaram Research Foundation</span></b>
in partnership with <b><span style="background:lime none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sarawak</span></b> and supported
by <b><span style="background:lime none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Government of Sarawak</span></b>
and also <b>many national and international organizations.</b> The organizers
are pleased to invite scientists, students, farmers, as well as representatives
from government, non-government organizations and industry to share their
research expertise for sustainable agriculture to eradicate hunger around the
globe. The IPM Conference will provide the platform to enhance knowledge with
latest trends through keynote speeches, thematic scientific papers and poster
presentations. We hope to have an extensive technical program covering various
themes around IPM technologies and invite eminent speakers to stimulate our
agenda on all aspects of Pest management for quality food production. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"arial narrow","sans-serif"">On behalf of the
organizing committee, we warmly invite you to Kuching, Sarawak<span> </span>the land of Rainforests and Hornbills. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"arial narrow","sans-serif"">Looking forward to
your active participation for the success of this important conference in
Malaysia</span></p>
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MORE DETAILS:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"arial narrow","sans-serif""><span> </span></span><a href="http://www.mypadnow.com/ipm2017" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"arial narrow","sans-serif"">www.mypadnow.com/ipm2017</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"arial narrow","sans-serif""> <span> </span>; </span></b><a href="mailto:ipmfp2016@gmail.com" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"arial narrow","sans-serif"">ipmfp2016@gmail.com</span></b></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"arial narrow","sans-serif""> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"arial narrow","sans-serif""><span> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"arial narrow","sans-serif"">With warm regards.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"arial narrow","sans-serif"">Prof. V Sivaram</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"arial narrow","sans-serif"">Bangalore
University, India</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"arial narrow","sans-serif"">e.mail: </span></u><a href="mailto:Sivaram900@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"arial narrow","sans-serif"">Sivaram900@gmail.com</span></a><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"arial narrow","sans-serif";color:blue"> </span></u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"arial narrow","sans-serif""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"arial narrow","sans-serif"" lang="IN">Dr.</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"arial narrow","sans-serif"" lang="EN-IN"> Hasmah
Mohidin</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"arial narrow","sans-serif";background:lime none repeat scroll 0% 0%" lang="IN">Chairman</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"arial narrow","sans-serif"" lang="EN-IN"> : </span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"arial narrow","sans-serif";background:lime none repeat scroll 0% 0%" lang="IN">Local Organizing</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"arial narrow","sans-serif";background:lime none repeat scroll 0% 0%" lang="EN-IN"> Committee</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"arial narrow","sans-serif"" lang="EN-IN"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"arial narrow","sans-serif"">Department
of Plantation and Agrotechnology, Universiti Technologi MARA, Sarawak,
Malaysia</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"arial narrow","sans-serif"" lang="EN-IN"></span></p>
<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"arial narrow","sans-serif"" lang="IN"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"arial narrow","sans-serif"" lang="EN-IN">e.mail: </span><a href="mailto:asmahhas@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"arial narrow","sans-serif"" lang="EN-IN">asmahhas@yahoo.com</span></a><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial narrow,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Dr. V. Sivaram</font></span></span></font></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial narrow,sans-serif"><b>Professor of Botany</b><br><b><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Secretary: International Commission for Plant-Pollinator Relationships (ICPPR), Canada</font></b></span><br></div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif">
</span><div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Fulbright -Nehru Senior Research Scholar<br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Former FAO of UN consultant - Apiculture Project in Iraq<br></font></span></div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif">
</span><div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif">Department of Botany</span></div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif">
</span><div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif">Bangalore University, Bangalore - 560056, India<br></span>
</div><div><span style="font-family:garamond,serif">Phone: + 91-80-22961315, Fax: 91-80-23181443<br>E.mail: <a href="mailto:sivaram900@gmail.com" target="_blank">sivaram900@gmail.com</a></span><br></div></div></div>
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