Experts at a seminar yesterday stressed the need for developing Integrated Pest Management (IPM) to ensure sustainable agriculture for safe crops.
IPM refers to replacement of chemical fertiliser by bio-pesticides, organic fertilisers and innovate pest tolerant agro crops that protect the corps from pests as well as keep the environment free from pollution, they said.
They told a inaugural session of three-daylong 4th International Seminar on “Development of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in Asia and Africa” jointly organised by IPM Lab. Dept of Plant Pathology, Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) and Niigata University of Japan at the BAU, said a press release.
Speaking as the chief guest Prof MA Karim, dean of faculty of Agricultural of BAU, Prof. Dr K Okazaki of University of Niigata, BAU Research System Director Prof. Dr Ali Akbar, among others, were present.
200 scientists from different countries participated in the seminar.
