Editorial Board — Journal of Agriculture and Aquaculture

Aquaculture

My name is Teklay Gebru and I am a senior lecturer at kebri Dehar University. I am an accomplished researcher and teacher, and I enjoy using my skills to contribute to the exciting technological advances that happen every day at kebri Dehar University. I graduated from the Addis Ababa University in 2013 with a bachelor’s degree in biology and Hawassa University in aquaculture and fisheries management in 2021. During MSc. Defense my thesis on (integrated aquaculture system) was rated as “Excellent” by external examiners from Addis Ababa University and internal examiners from Hawassa University.

Fisheries, Aquaculture, Limnology, Aquatic sciences, Ecotoxicology, Fish biology, Fish genetics, Stock assessment, Fish nutrition

Plant Science

Plant Pathology, Biological Control, Desertification, Agricultural Nanotechnology

Mr. Shoukat Ali Shah is currently a Research Scholar. He has completed a Master of Engineering in (Hydraulics and Irrigation Engineering) from the Institute of Water Resources Engineering and Management of Mehran University of Engineering and Technology Jamshoro in 2018 and a Bachelor of Engineering in (Agricultural Engineering) from Sindh Agriculture University Tandojam in 2014. He is a Registered Engineer from Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC). He has good scientific research work in the field of water resources management, agricultural crop assessment, hydrology, remote sensing, climate change, and geography. Currently, He has ten published international research articles and is also working on different scientific projects in the above-mentioned fields.
Mr. Shoukat worked as “Research Coordinator” (2019-2020 ten months) in (US-Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Water) of Mehran University of Engineering and Technology Jamshoro in a project, Government of Sindh, Planning and Development Department, Project Coordination and Monitoring Unit, Water Sector Improvement Project WSIP-AF, project name Calibration of gauges and development of rating curve of 115 minors/distributaries of NARA canal area water board. His main responsibilities were, an inspectional survey of minors/distributaries, installation of gauges, flow measurement/discharge by using River Surveyor/M9/ADCP, current meter, flow probe, meetings with officials/staffs of Irrigation/SIDA, developing a tentative work plan, follow up visits, coordinating with field teams, minutes of the meeting, monthly progress report, and project completing report.
Mr. Shoukat worked as “Junior Engineer” (2017-2018 one year) in Management Development Center (MDC) in Hyderabad in a project name WSIP-1 AF, project (Monitoring & Evaluation) main responsibilities were, taking discharge measurement of selected distributaries & minors on three area water board, Nara canal area water board, Ghotki feeder canal area water board, left bank area water board using current meter, flow probe, cut-throat flume, watercourse surveying, designing & levelling and discharge measurement, seepage losses of minors/distributaries and watercourses, calibration of minors/distributaries, GPS, GIS, mapping, secondary and primary data collection from Irrigation/SIDA offices, meetings with officials and FOs to collect informations about sampled minors/distributaries, installing gauges includes but not limited to support program unit in writing quarterly report writing, expression of interest, technical proposals, inception reports, developing work plan, writing minutes of meeting, organizing. He also fulfills general administrative tasks including printing, photocopy and file maintenance, etc.
Mr. Shoukat worked as a “Research Assistant” ( 2015 five months) in (ICARDA & IWREM of Mehran University of Engineering and Technology Jamshoro) project in Tandobaz Jamshoro his responsibilities included the collection of data of irrigation water application, checking the system of sprinkler & drip irrigation during application of water to the field and writing a quarterly report and project completion report, etc.
Mr. Shoukat worked as “Event Manager” (2013-2013 one year) in Fast Youth Network Development (FYND) in Hyderabad. His main responsibilities were to conduct social events, administration work, program management, making reports, and record of the programs.

Agricultural Engineering, Remote Sensing, Water Resource Management, Environmental Engineering

I have significant experience in dealing with strategic direction and management in the field of Fisheries and Aquaculture, but also comprehensive knowledge. My work experience is as a “Master Trainer” in the Department of Sindh Fisheries.
With Master’s Degree in Fresh Water Biology, currently enrolled as Ph.D. Scholar Fresh Water Biology, Miss Maryam Sheikh over 7 years of professional experience in Aquaculture and Fisheries Resources Management, Fisheries Trainings and Developments in whole Sindh, with Project Departments include district functionaries’ representatives. My working is to give strength in people, doing in team work & struggle to achieve a target, which provides more opportunities of development. Executive and middle level experience both in Development work & Effective coordination with Project Departments include district functionaries, local government representatives.

I want to share my research and scientific information throughout the world via a research community. I have a great knowledge in the agriculture and aquaculture working field and I worked hard a lot longer time on it.

Debajit Kalita pursued B. Sc. (Botany) from Guwahati University, M.Sc. (Microbiology) from Bangalore University, Karnataka and Ph.D. (Department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics) from North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya. He had also completed post graduate diploma in environmental management (PGDEM) from Tezpur University, Certificate in Industrial Disaster Management from CUHK, Hong Kong and Managing health and safety in science laboratory from HSA, Ireland.
Application wise, has more than 10 years of research experiences in microbiology, having work on biofuel production. He has also experience in handling of BSL 2 level handling pathogenic strains of bacteria and fungi. During his research tenure, more than 15 research papers, book chapters, conferences (national and international) and patents is credited to Dr. Kalita. He is also an invited reviewer of many reputed international journals published by springers, Elsevier, SAGE, BioMed etc. He is holding post of editorial board members of various reputed journals published from USA, India, Germany, Australia, China, Canada etc. Members of global advisory group of Nanotechnology of SETAC (USA) are adding value to Dr. Kalita. Was an organising member of International conference on Nanotechnology jointly organized by Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization (SNO, USA) and Assam Don Bosco University (ADBU, Assam). Dr. Kalita also was a moderator and organizing team members of Asia Pacific Space Generation Workshop (APSGW), supported and catalysed by United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) at Singapore 2018. Representing India official delegate in Asia Pacific Regional Space Forum (APRSF), 2018.
Dr. Kalita is honoured by fellow member Academy of Environment and Life Science and Early career scientist, international distinguished scientist awardee. He is the life member of various international scientific societies such as Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC, USA), Society for Biotechnologist, Spanish Society of Microbiology, European nanoscience and Nanotechnology Association (ENNA, Germany), American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), The international Society of Subsurface Microbiology (USA).

Plant Biochemistry, Plant Microbiology and Biotechnology

Fisheries & Marine Resources (Fish Biology)

Mr. Shokri Omar Mustafa is a PhD candidate in Fish Nutrition at Firat University in Turkey. He had his BSc. degree in Animal Resources from Mosul University in 1994, Iraq then earned MSc. degree in 2012 from Queensland University, Australia in Animal Studies with high distinction. He was appointed Nutritionist and the Head of Fish Resources Department since 1994 till now. He is also the president of fish resources Association in Iraqi Kurdistan. He has more than 5 papers in the field Poultry Nutrition, Fish Nutrition, Management and supervised more than 150 Poultry and fish Farm in Duhok Provinces, Iraqi Kurdistan, Turkey, Australia and Malaysia. Ultimately, he has more than 25 years experience in different sectors.

Mr. Shokri Omar Mustafa research interests are Department of Fish Resources, Nutrition, fishery and Poultry Department i.e Feed Formula, Farm Management, Cage fish culture, RAS, Trout Salmon fish farm, Fish and poultry Nutrition and Nutritional and biotechnology.

Dr. N. Shanthi is the Assistant Professor, PG and Research Department of Botany, Pachaiyappa’s College, Chennai, India. She has one decade of Post Graduate teaching and Research experience in the field of Stress Physiology. She has completed one research project. She has signed an MOU in 2018 with SynkroMax Biotech Pvt Ltd., Chennai, for research and exchange of faculty and research scholars. She has published 1 books and 25 papers in national and international journals. She is a reviewer for many international journals. She has also presented the paper at the International conference in Malaysia and Singapore.Recently She has received Outstanding Scientist Award for Initiatives, Discoveries, and Developments in the discipline of Botany from Venus International Foundation, Chennai and Distinguish professor awards from AIMIST University, Kedah, Malaysia.

Major Area of Research: Applied Botany and Plant Stress Physiology
Research Interests: Plant stress physiology
Current Research Focus: Potential drugs from Medicinal plants
These days, various examinations have been directed to develop the potential medication from medicinal plants for human use. In this manner the individual viably gets various illnesses. When they get treatment from allopathic, it fixes something, it additionally responds with some different things in the body which may be generous. Since it gives various reactions of the person. At the point when restorative plant utilized for mending ailments is exceptionally modest and ordinary and something which each pocket can bear. Along these lines, persistently expanding interest of fragrant and therapeutic plants on the worldwide market. Amid the developments restorative plant in the field condition numerous ecological variables are of much concern which can enhance the nature of phytochemical. Therapeutic Plant Active Compounds Produced by UV-B Exposure in connection to their business esteem. In this forthcoming, UV-B looks into on therapeutic plants have had a lot of consideration for scientists and pharmaceutics, as they demonstrate the positive contribution of UV-B on quality and yield of wanting home grown items. These segments critical for the wellbeing parts of human life and additionally positive reaction of UV-B to upgrade nourishing estimation of plants by means of inciting conceivable improvement in different wellbeing advancing constituents.

Current workplace and position: University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Iasi (ROMANIA), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Public Health Department, Assoc. Prof., DVM, MSc, VPD, PhD.
Work experience (experience in teaching and research): 27 years.
Head of Research and Teaching Units: Control of Products and Food of Animal Origin; Food Safety; Control and Quality Assurance of Food; Inspection and Veterinary Sanitary Law

Dr safdar Bashir is Assistant professor at University of Agriculture Faisalabad Sub campus Depalpur Okara. He has PhD from Germany and postdoc from Australia. He is a Soil scientist with the expertise in Isotope Biogeochemistry and environmental contamination. His research primarily focuses on the transport and transformation of xenobiotics at various Geochemical interfaces using integrated approaches i.e. the use of Molecular biology, microbial cultivation, metabolite analysis and isotopic techniques to understand the fate of xenobiotics. At university of Agriculture Faisalabad, he is mainly working on the development of sustainable and efficient bio Nano-fertilizers. He is review editor of Frontier’s in Environmental Sciences and member of American Geophysical Union and soil science society of Pakistan.

Professor Guoqin Huang obtained his PhD from Nanjing Agricultural University and his postdoctoral certificate from Nanjing Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He visited University of Georgia (USA), University of York (UK), Australia, and New Zealand, as well as Hong Kong, Macao and other countries and regions as a visiting scholar and a senior visiting scholar.
Currently he is the chief professor and director of the Research Center on Ecological Sciences at Jiangxi Agricultural University. He is also the executive director of the Chinese Society of Ecology and the Chinese Society of Ecological Economics, and the director of the Ecological Economics Association and the Ecological Sciences Association in Jiangxi Province.
He is a recognized expert in farming systems, agroecology, and sustainable development of agriculture. He has published more than 80 books and more than 600 papers.

Dr. Ankita Awasthi, 28-year-old, is an Assistant professor at A.N.D. College, Kanpur, India. She received her Master degree and Ph.D. in Zoology in 2012 and 2019, respectively. During her research period, she was focused on developing environmentally safe biopesticides which are inherently less harmful and less environmental load, designed to affect only one specific pest or in some cases a few target organisms and often effective in very small quantities and often decompose quickly, thereby resulting in lower exposures and largely avoiding the pollution problems. She worked to develop effective pest control mechanism by using Indian medicinal plants as biopesticides. She also worked to increase the qualitative and quantitative production of tomato crop. After that she worked to found the active chemicals of those medicinal plants. For her innovative research, she awarded with Blue Planet Scholar Award and Young Scientist Award by Blue Planet Society India, Young achiever award by Institute of Scholar and Chaudhary Charan Singh award for agricultural innovation by Glocal environment and social association.

Vikram Kumar received his Bachelors in Civil Engineering. He obtained his degree Masters of Technology in “Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering” with honors and completed his Doctorate in Hydrology. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Civil Engineering department at Gaya Engineering College, Gaya- India. Kumar has also received a young researcher award and many others in this year.

His research interests include field hydrology, water resources planning and management, watershed management and modeling

Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Protection, Environmental Pollution, Green Chemistry, General Chemistry, Earth Chemistry, Atmospheric Chemistry, Natural Water Chemistry, etc.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. M. Cuneyt Bagdatl? is working in Nev?ehir Hac? Bekta? Veli University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Department of Biosystem Engineering in Turkey since 2014. He completed Ph.D. level in Biosystem Engineering area of Nam?k Kemal University (Turkey) and M.S. Level in Selçuk University, Department of Agricultural Structures and Irrigation in Turkey. In addition to I taked from MSc level from Department of Chemistry in Heavy Metal Pollution area, Remote sensing and Geography Information systems and Occupational Safety areas in Cukurova University and Nevsehir Haci Bektas Veli University. He worked as a research assistant in Nam?k Kemal University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Biosystem Engineering (2008-2013). He served as project head and researcher in 18 projects supported by Universities. He is having 70 articles in Journals and Syposium, Conference on Irrigation, Hdrology, Climate Change, Hydrology, Watershed Management, Water quality, Remote sensing and GIS mapping, The system management in automatic irrigation, fertilization, pesticide and greenhouse. Heavy metal pollution in water and soil.

Irrigation and Irrigation Systems in Agriculture, Watershed Management, Global Climate Change and Hydrology, The Management of Water and Soil Resources, The Use of Remote Sensing and Geography Information Systems (GIS) in Agriculture, Agricultural Water Quality and GIS modelling, Heavy metal pollution in soil and water, Fitoremediation, The System Management in Automatic Irrigation.

Daniele De Wrachien Presented with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achivement Award by Marquis who?s Who.
Daniele De Wrachien is full professor of Irrigation and Drainage at the Department of Agricultural Engineering of the State University of Milan.
He graduated in Geology at the same University ,where he received is PhD in Applied Geology.
Director of the Institute of agricultural Hydraulics ( 2000-2006)
Director of the Computer Centre of the Faculty of Agriculture ( 1989 – 1995)
President of EurAgEng (European Society of Agricultural Engineers ) (2002-2004)
Member of the Executive Board of CIGR ( International Commission of Agricultural Engineering ) ( 2006- 2014)
Member of the Executive Board of ICID (International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage) (2005-2012)
Member of the Board of Directors of WIT ( Wessex Institute of Technology ) (2010-2014)
Author of more than 150 publications ( scientific papers ,keynote papers,books and technical papers )
Organizer of more than fifty international Events ( Conferences, Congresses,Symposia and Workshops ) held in about fifteen countries throughout Europe,Africa,Asia,America, Australia

1. Water resources management;
2. Irrigation and drainage technology;
3. Classical and quantum water droplet trajectories in an irrigation spay;
4. Performance assessment of sprinkler irrigation systems;
5. Modelling of transport processes in porous media ;
6. Modelling and fluid-dynamics of debris and hyper-concentrated flows;
7. Flood control and mitigation measures;
8. Desertification and environmental impact of climate change.

I’m working as a Scientific Officer (Head- R&D) in Research & Development Cell of Ramky Enviro Engineers Limited. I’m holding a Master of Engineering in Environmental Engineering discipline and presently, pursuing my Ph.D. from BITS Pilani (Premium Institutes of India). I’m a gold medallist from UGC and Annamalai University and awardee of Excellent Scientist from RULA international society, NESA (Gov. of India), I2OR, and IMRF (Niti Aayog). I’m highly proficient in industrial R&D. I yielded numerous novel research works and published with prestigious publication houses such as Springer, Taylor and Francis etc. My recent book on waste management started a new era in industrial implementation of symbiotic macro-composting. I do hold an intellectual patent and several more are under evaluation. I’m the honorable recipient of “Excellent Scientist” in environmental sciences category 2019. In addition to the above, I serve 50+ international journals originated from different nations as editorial and review board member.

Sustainable waste management, waste minimization, waste to energy conversion, waste to material recovery, Climate change mitigation, Sustainable Agriculture etc.

Animal Nutrition – Animal breeding – Animal biotechnology

Dr. Mohammad Auyoub Bhat is presently working as Senior Scientist in the Division of Soil Science at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir. He obtained his bachelors in Agriculture in 1999 from Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, masters in Soil Science from Narendra Deva University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology and doctorate in Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry from Banaras Hindu University. He possesses a vast experience of more than 15 years in teaching, research and extension and has published several research articles in reputed national and international journals.

Solid Waste Management; Speciation, Quantification and Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals; Nutrient Use Efficiency; Integrated Nutrient Management; Nutrient Indexing Using GIS Tools; Soil Quality and Sustainability

Horticulture (Vegetable Science), Production Technology, Green house, CropImprovement, Post harvest management and organic farming of vegetable crops

Dr. Dragan Žnidar?i? has been working as an associate professor in the Department of Agronomy, Biotechnical Faculty in the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) since 2011. He completed his undergraduate, graduate and doctorate degrees in the University of Ljubljana in 1988, 1996 and 2004, respectively. He is currently teaching courses in Growing of Less Known Vegetables, Aromatic Plants and Sprouts. Dr. Dragan Žnidar?i? has published more than 120 research papers, 5 Review Articles, 180 Technical articles in various National and International peer reviewed Journals and also published 3 Book Chapters and presented 60 abstracts in various National and International Seminars/Conferences. He served as a reviewer for many respected journals such as Food Chemistry, Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology, Journal of the Science of Food, Agriculture and Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research. He was participant in numerous national research programs funded by the Slovenian Research Agency.

Vegetable growing, Hidroponics, Fertigation, Production technics, Primary and secondary metabolites, Antioxidants

Dr. Shaon Kumar Das is working as a Scientist SS (Agricultural Chemistry) at ICAR-National Organic Farming Research Institute, Gangtok, Sikkim under ICAR. He did his M.Sc. in 2010 from Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi with gold medal for his outstanding contribution. Then he joined in Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in 2011 as scientist. Dr. Das is a regular member of the Society of Pesticide Science, Association of Agrometeorologists, International Journal of Bio-resource and Stress Management and Indian society of soil science. He has published 25 national and 21 international research articles, 10 review articles in national and International journals, 25 popular article, 23 extension folder, 2 books, 22 book chapters in edited books. He is a regular reviewer of many International journals and also a member of the editorial board. He got DST-INSPIRE fellowship in 2010. He has been awarded the Young Scientist award by 5th faculty branding award of education expo TV in 2017 and also by society for scientific development in agriculture and technology in 2017. He also got 2 best oral presentation awards. Several invited talk delivered by him. Now he has 3 institute projects as PI, 10 as Co-PI and 2 as Co-PI in DST project. He has been involved in the research on carbon sequestration, soil fertility management, soil acidity reclamation, organic nutrient standardization of major hill crops. Currently he is working on characterization of biochar and their application on soil for management of soil health.

Dr Gopal Dixit is working as Head of Botany department and Centre of Research in Ethnobotany in Upadhi PG College (MJP Rohilkhand University), Pilibhit, India. He is mentoring and teaching Botany & Environmental Science from last 25 years and guiding students in the completion of their projects/ dissertations. He is actively engaged in research activities specially on Plant Physiology, Pathology, Biochemistry and  Ecology n Environment etc. along with Ethnobotany of  Indo- Nepal sub Himalayan terai region of  Rohilkhand division of UP state of India. He has published more than 50 research papers in  peer  reviewed and indexed  journals of National and International repute. He is serving as Associate Editor, Editorial board member, reviewer in various journals. Dr Dixit is performing challenging responsibilities as a Chairman of the International Board of Ethnomedicobotany and also as Faculty in the World Academy of Medical Sciences (WAMS). He is a founder President of an NGO “ Environment Conservation Organisation “( ECO). His major fields of research are:
(A).Effect of fertilizer factory wastes on biological and root-knot disease parameters in different cultivars of Tomato and other vegetables. The suitability and efficacy of certain concentrations of fertilizer wastes has been evaluated both at lab and field trials to establish non- chemical practices for root-knot disease caused by Nematodes.
(B).Possible + ve and – ve  role of various Bio Chemicals, present in crop plants, in root- knot disease control has also been  done on Carbohydrates, Proteins, Amino Acids and Phenols.
(C). “Ethnobotany  in the welfare of living beings” is one of the other major research aspect which deals with enumeration of locally growing wild plants used by tribal and rural people living in the vicinity of  Pilibhit Tiger Reseve.
Compilation of details about plants and their parts being used in Contact/ Touch therapy by tribals and other forest dwellers is under the process.    

Dr. Shailesh Kumar Singh is Associate Professor and Head of Horticulture Department in Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab (India). He has guided eleven students as advisor and more than 20 students as co-advisor in three and half year of research. He has published nearly 37 research and review papers in indexed (NAAS or Scopus) journals such as, Journal of Environmental Biology, Annals of Biology, Carpathian Journal of Food Science and Technology, Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, International Journal of Chemical Studies, Journal of Crop and Weeds, etc. He is also serving as Editorial board member and reviewer of many journals. The research area has been elaborated below:

1. Economic feasibility of Intercropping in fruit crops: Intercropping of vegetable crops viz. Colocassia, Amorphophalus, Turmeric, Okra, French bean, Cauliflower, Brinjal etc. under plantation of guava, aonla and kinnow plantations has been evaluated. The economic feasibility and suitability of these vegetable crops as intercrop has been endorsed under field trial to generate additional income from orchards.
2. Postharvest handling and management fruit crops: Postharvest physiology of various fruit crops viz. Zizyphus mauritiana Lamk., kinnow mandarin and litchi has been investigated under application of plant extracts, packaging and fruit juice preservation.
3. Biofertilizer application and INM practices in horticultural crops: Role of biofertilizers and minerals have been evaluated in potato under field trial for standardization of INM composition under Punjab condition. Specific emphasis was given to nitrate accumulation in tubers.

Study on clonal propagation in guava and citrus species, correlation studies in tomato, strawberry and citrus germplasm; Regulation of flowering and fruiting in strawberry plants through application of plant growth regulators; Impact of Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria in horticulture is in preliminary stage.

Dhruba Bijaya GC, Ph.D. is currently working as an Assistant Professor at Tribhuvan University, Instittue of Forestry, Pokhara Campus, Pokhara, Nepal. He is an undergraduate in Forestry Science from the same university where he currently works. In 2009, he moved to China and studied his M.Sc. from China Agricultural University and completed it in 2011. His major for Ph.D is Natural Resource Science which he obtained from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2016. He likes research and teaching. He has published several different articles in indexed journals nationally and internationally. He voluntarily works as an editorial board of many national and international journals too. Also he has supervised around 20 students as advisor and co-advisor of undergraduate and post graduates at his university till date. He specialized on forestry and forestry related subjects. He has an ample knowledge on forest ecology and silviculture, biodiversity and forest conservation, climate change, forest governance, grassland management, rural development issues specially focusing on the developing countries like Nepal and somewhat India and China. His research interests include covers but not limited to: forest ecology and silviculture, biodiversity and forest conservation, plant pathology and entomology, grassland and mountain areas, somewhat related to climate change and rural development issues in the developing countries.

I am interested in applications of geospatial techniques (remote sensing, GIS, GPS) and modeling (spatial and statistical molding) in the following items: Soil survey, Geomorphology and mapping, land degradation, soil improvement, land Resources evaluation; Land Capability, Land Suitability, land use planning, environmental hazard assessment, change detection, soil fertility, crop monitoring, yield prediction, and crop and soil management, climate impacts on agriculture and soil properties.

Dimitar P. Karaivanov had his M.Sc. degree in “Handling and Building Machines and Systems” from Technical University – Sofia, Bulgaria in 1983. He Served as Engineer-designer and Head of the Lifting Equipment Group at the Design Department of KEM “6th of September”, Sofia, Bulgaria (electrical forklifts plant). His pedagogic work started in 1985 in University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy (UCTM) – Sofia, Bulgaria where he served to nowadays. In UCTM he had his Dr. (PhD) degree (in 2000) and Professor (Docent) rank (in 2002) in “Machinery and Machine Elements”. Since 2015 he serves in Faculty Fire Safety and Civil Protection of Academy of Ministry of Interior, Sofia, Bulgaria. Dimitar P. Karaivanov is lecturing “Machine elements”, “Mechanical engineering”, etc. in: University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy – Sofia; Faculty Fire Safety and Civil Protection of Academy of Ministry of Interior – Sofia (since 2007); He also lectured “Engineering method for investigation of compound planetary gear trains” and “Problems of creating of processing machines and equipment” in several Kazakhstan agrarian and technical universities: He was Co-mentor of five graduated PhD students from Croatia (one in “Planetary Gear Trains”) and Kazakhstan (four in “Agricultural Machinery”). Prof. Karaivanov’s scientific skills and competences are as follows: Author of 2 monographs, more than 90 scientific publications (12 in ISI journals, 33 in other scientific journals, including SCOPUS, other in conferences proceedings in USA, China, Germany, Greece, Italia, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Ukraine), 2 BG Patents. Noticed 60 citations (49 abroad). Member of the Editorial Board and reviewer of scientific publication of several journals: Expert in Bulgarian Institute of Standardization (BIS). National expert of Bulgarian Scientific-Technical Union of Mechanical Engineering in Gear Trains and Power Transmissions. Vice-president of the Balkan Association of Power Transmissions 2012 – 2016. President of the Balkan Association of Power Transmissions since Oct. 2016.

Handling machines dynamic; Gear trains investigation; Theoretical and experimental analysis of multistage planetary gear trains; Agricultural machinery (precise fertilizing machines, dynamic processes in equipment, fruit dying process, etc.).

Mona Kejariwal had her B.Sc. degree in Industrial Microbiology & Botany from University of Rajasthan in 2002, India and then earned MSc. degree in 2004 from Department of Botany, University of Rajasthan, India in plant physiology. She has got her Ph.D. degree in Phytochemicals and antioxidant potential of some medicinal plants. She was appointed Assistant professor in R.D. &S.H National College of the University of Mumbai since 2009 till now and he has more than 14 research articles and 7 book chapters in the field of phytochemical analysis of medicinal plants and environmental Biotechnology. She has invented a water testing field testing kits with her students for potable water testing which had been awarded as best paper award and was selected in innovation in mygov portal.

Dr. Mona Kejariwal research interests are field of herbal science technology to develop new formulation as well as developing cost effective technology for detection of pathogens.

Abobatta working as a Dr at (Citrus research Department), Horticulture Research Institute, Agriculture Research Center, he’s a member of Scientific Committee for Greenhouses Plantation (Agriculture Research Center) and he is a member of Scientific Team for National Campaign for Navel Orange improvement (Horticulture Research Institute), he’s a member of Board of Environment Friends Society (H R I), and member of Scientific Society of Flowers and Ornamental Plants, Abobatta is a supervisor of M. Sc. Thesis in different branches of agricultural science. Abobatta published more than 16 books and research papers till now. Abobatta has been serving as an editorial board member in many journals like Acta Science Agriculture, https://actascientific.com/ASAG.php ,Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Science Publishing Group http://www.sciencepublishinggroup.com ,International Journal of Research in Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy Practice https://ijrcmpp.com Also, Abobatta member of Reviewer Committee of International Academy of Chemical, Civil & Environment Engineering (IACCEE) http://iaccee.org/committee.php and many other journals all-over the world. Dr. Abobatta has been identified as an influential speaker for seminar, symposium, workshop, training and classes. He’s consultant of Nano application in the agricultural sector and Magnetizing treated water in agriculture in the Arabian region. Abobatta is coordinator for various international conferences and workshop since 2014 till now, Dr. Abobatta is one of Jojoba experts in MENA region, also, He’s consultant of Biodynamic agriculture in the Arabian region. Also, Dr. Abobatta Judge of Intel ISEF competition from 2014 till now and Judge of Egyptian Inventors Syndicate, Abobatta is involved in a number of researchers in his field of expertise.

Dr. Waleed Abobatta research interests are Integrated Horticulture crops management, Nano application in the agricultural sector, plant physiology, application of hydrogel polymer in agriculture, Greenhouses Plantation, Jojoba production, and the soilless culture of vegetables.

Esam Mahmoud had his BSc. degree in Soil science from Mosul University 1977, IRAQ and then earned MSc. Degree in soil physics 1984 from Salah-AL-Deen University and Ph.D. in modelling of water flow through soil 2000 from Mosul University. He was appointed Lecturer of the Foundation of Technical Institutes 1978-1985 and Assistance Prof. from 1986 till now. He occupied positions of Head of Computer Department at Mosul Technical Institute 2004-2010, Dean Assistants for Scientific & Students Affairs at Agricultural Technical College and head of Department of Desertification Combating Technology at Agricultural Technical College / Northern Technical University form 2017 till now. He has more than 20 papers in the fields of soil conditioners, modeling of water and salt flow through soil, supervised 2 PhD students

Mr. Esam Mahmoud research interests are soil physics, modelling of water and solute flow through porous media by programming with FORTRAN computer language or with GUI programs like HYDRUS, Geostudio software, his main concern is modelling water infiltration, evaporation, salt movement and drip irrigation especially in arid areas. He is capable of simulating of crop production with or without drought, salinity and other growth factors by using AquaCrop software. Also simulation some soil phenomena like temperature and hydraulic properties using Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Time series.

Dr. Jaimin Pandya is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology in N.M. College of Agriculture (NMCA) at Navsari Agricultural University (NAU) since March 2013. Dr. Pandya had completed his graduation, post graduation and doctorate from the NMCA, NAU, Navsari, Gujarat, India. Dr. Pandya had guided four post graduate students as a major advisor in the field of plant pathology. He had more than twenty national and international publications to his credit. Incidentally he had presented a number of research papers in national and international seminars/ conferences/ symposia and received various prizes also. Dr. Pandya is in the editorial board of different journals. Earlier he was also associated with S.D. Agricultural University, Sardar Krushi Nagar, Dantiwada, Banaskantha, Gujarat, India with the same position. Before joining as an assistant professor, he contributed with several positions like JRF, SRF and RA at NAU. Dr. Pandya awarded for his best research work for doctorate degree by the Gujarat Association of Agricultural Sciences and he was awardee of Indian Society of Mycology & Plant Pathology as well as Indian Phytopathological Society at west zone level. Dr. Pandya also received Young Achiever Award by the Society for Advancement of Human and Nature. He served as Zonal President of west zone for Indian Society of Mycology and Plant Pathology, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. Dr. Pandya is acted as member of Navsari Agricultural University Teacher’s Association (NAUTA) as well as office bearer of Gujarat Agricultural University Teacher’s Association (GAUTA).

Dr. Sanjeev Sangami is a Associate Professor, in Civil Engineering Department, Jain College of Engineering, Belagavi. He received his M. tech from NITK Surathkal in 2010 and Ph.D in 2018 from NITK Surathkal. He published many papers related to agriculture herbicides in water and their treatment technique such as AOPs in indexed journals (springer, Elsevier, IWA etc) for the remediation many environmental contaminants. He has been awarded the fellowship by MHRD Govt. of India to carried out the research. He is developing Fe nanoparticles from sustainable plant extracts, and their application as a heterogonous catalyst for different applications. His research work mainly focuses on application of nanoparticles in agriculture field. He also presented papers in many conferences and he is a reviewer for the many journals such as International Journal for Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical sciences, IWA Journals, Elsevier and springer etc.

Water and Waste Water Treatment; Agriculture Herbicides and their interactions with Soil and Water; Toxicity Studies; Pesticide Cycle in Food Chain; Synthesis of Nanomaterial’s.

Dr. Amit Kumar Singh (Faculty- Horticulture, RLBCAU, Jhansi) born at a small village surrounded by agricultural lands in Ghazipur District, Uttar Pradesh. Completed his higher secondary education from the Pachotar National Inter College (PNIC), Mardah, Ghazipur District, Uttar Pradesh. His parents farming background motivated him to pursue a under graduate degree in Agriculture from the Post Graduate College Ghazipur, Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University (VBSPU) Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh. He was awarded University merit fellowship for his post-graduate studies leading to M. Sc. (Hort.) in Post Harvest Technology of Horticultural Crops from Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia, West Bengal. His master’s research focused on processing of underutilized fruit crops, which was carried out at Directorate of Research, BCKVV, West Bengal. He realized an advanced degree in Horticulture (PHT of Hort. Crops) and completed Ph. D. (Hort.) in Post Harvest Technology of Horticultural Crops from Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia, West Bengal. During Ph. D. degree he received DST-Fellowship (Inspire Fellowship) for his research work and he focused on underutilized vegetables to aware the peoples not only the quantitative aspects as well as qualitative aspects. He has participated and presented more than 10 international and national conference, seminar, symposia on horticulture and received several awards Young Scientist Award, Young scientist associated award, best paper, rank holder, Inspire Fellowship Award, University Research Scholar Award, Fellow International College of Nutrition etc. Apart from this he has published more than fifteen articles and five book chapters in reputed journals and publishers. He has been served as Assistant Professor- Horticulture at MS Swaminathan School of Agriculture, Centurion University of Technology and Management, Gajapati, Odisha for more than two years. At presently he is serving at College of Horticulture and Forestry, Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India and his research focuses on quantitative as well as qualitative aspects of underutilized fruits and vegetables to aware the people, uplifting the nutritional and socioeconomic status of vulnerable commodities of India as well as Asia.

Dr. Pradeep Mishra, had his B.Sc. (Ag.) in the College of Agriculture, Bilaspur, affiliated to IGKVV, Raipur (C.G.). He successfully completed this degree in 2008 with securing 69.1% marks. For further study he got admission in the College of Agriculture, J.N.K.V.V., and Jabalpur for his Master Degree in Agricultural Statistics. He successfully completed the entire course requirements for his degree with First Division .Author has completed his Ph.D in Agriculture Statistics in year 2014 Presently, he is working as a assistant professor at college of agriculture, Powarkheda under JNKVV university since year 2017. He has published more than 56 research article in different international and national journals. Also he got award like young scientists, best doctoral degree, second best paper award from different societies.

Dr Pradeep Mishra research interests are Department of Agriculture Statistics i.e Design of experiment, Sampling, Multivariate, Time series analysis and forecasting.

Dr El Baroudy received the degrees of B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. from The University of Tanta in 1996 and 2000, Egypt. Currently, he is a Professor and head of Soil in the Soil and Water Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Tanta University. His research activities are mainly concerned with pedology, soil degradation, desertification, land evaluation, remote sensing and GIS modeling. He has published widely in Soil Science, having authored 38 refereed and conference papers. Dr El Baroudy has jointly supervised ten M.Sc. and seven Ph.D. theses to completion. He has conducted postdoctoral research at Córdoba University, Spain. He is a member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Environmental Monitoring and Analysis (IJEMA), Journal of Agriculture Food and Development and the Comprehensive Research Journal of Agricultural Science (CRJAS). He also participates in five research projects. He is a member of many professional associations. These include the Egyptian Society of Soil Science, Journal of Agriculture Sciences of Tanta University, National Centre for Faculty and Leadership Development Egypt, International Centre for Faculty and Leadership Development at Tanta University. He is a Peer-Reviewed for eleven international journals. He has many awards, including the Tanta University Award for International Publishing, International Award for Agricultural Scientific Research in the Management and Development of Water Resources in Arid and Semi-arid Zones (ACSAD) and the Tanta University Promotional Award in Agricultural Sciences.

For being M. Sc. (Ag.) in Soil Science & Agril. Chemistry from JNKVV, Jabalpur in 1999, he was awarded Ph.D. by RDVV, Jabalpur in 2008. He qualified CES in Environment Study by IGNOU, Delhi in 2005 and NET in Soil Science from ASRB, New Delhi in 2010. Presently, he is working as Scientist, Soil Science and Agril. Chemistry, CoA, J. N. KrishiVishwaVidyalaya, Jabalpur. He has working experience of more than 14 years in teaching, research and extension fields. He is recognized as research guide for M.Sc. and Ph.D. students with 06 as Major advisor and 19 as Co-advisor. He has successfully handled 02 International and 11 National projects. He has undergone 14 trainings and delivered 18 TV/Radio talks. He has published 51 Research papers, 07 Books/ compendium, 07 Book chapters, 14 Technical Bulletin/ manuals and 115 Popular articles. He has visited Durban and Japan in scientific forum.

Born in the serene city of Jos-Plateau State North Central Nigeria on the 11th of May 1988, Abdulwasiu Olawale Salaudeen is the youngest child from a family of five. He is a native of Omu Aran Kwara state Nigeria. He lost his dad some days to his second birthday which delayed his education not until he was six. Abdulwasiu attended Anointed private school Etobaba Jos, Nassarawa Baptist private school Jos, Mount Olive secondary school Jos and Baptist science grammar school Jos. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Industrial Chemistry from University of Abuja, Masters of Technology in Analytical Chemistry from the Federal University of Technology Akure, and his Ph.D in Analytical Chemistry from University of Abuja. He is currently a Researcher at the Department of Applied Mathematics (Chemistry option) at National Mathematical Centre, Abuja Nigeria. He was a mentor to the Nigerian team to the 48th and 50th international chemistry Olympiad in Tblisi-Georgia and Slovakia-Czech in 2016 and 2018 respectively. He is a member of Chemical Society of Nigeria. He is married with a son.

Abdulwasiu’s research interest covers but not limited to: Waste water analysis, Assessment of water for irrigation, Waste water treatment, Environmental analysis, Adsorption/biosorption, Kinetics, Isotherm, Thermodynamics

Dr. Engineer, Research assistant, Department of Soil Sciences, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Publication of 120 papers in BDI&ISI journals and international symposiums, 28 of which as lead author. Specialized in soil tillage conservation and its effect on soil organic matter, water management and carbon sequestration.

Agrotechnics, herbology and soil management; technique experimentally and analysis of variance; soil conservation systems for a sustainable agriculture, anti-erosion systems, minimum soil tillage, no-tillage, carbon sequestration; integrated control of weeds and correct use of herbicides; rural development and climatic changes.

I have completed my B.sc(agriculture) from Orissa University of agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar, Orissa and completed M.sc (ag)- Plant pathology from Orissa University of agriculture and technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha. Now I am working as assistant professor in department of plant pathology, centurion university of technology And Management, Paralakhemundi, gajapati-761211. Now I am teaching 200 students of B.sc (ag) and guiding 7 students of RAWE programme of B.Sc(ag). I have published two research article in journals and attended three national level symposium.

Agriculture and Plant pathology

Post Harvest Technology of Horticultural Crops, Horticulture

Maha A Ali , was graduated from faculty of science, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt 1985. In 1996 Dr. Ali got the doctorate degree and was assigned as a lecturer of medical biophysics. In 2008 she was assigned as a Professor of medical biophysics, Cairo University. She has many national and international publications in medical and molecular biophysics. Prof Dr. Ali is a reviewer in many international journals.

Special research interests in cancer research, medical biophysics and molecular biophysics.

Myself P, working as a Senior Research Fellow in ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Barrackpore, Kolkata-700120. I have done M.Sc in Agriculture rural development from Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University, Belur, During M.Sc I have worked on indigenous knowledge of agriculture. After that I have worked as an agriculture professional in different organization. I have also worked as a guest lecturer. Presently I am working with CIFRI (Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute) as a research scholar. I have also experience on aquaculture, agriculture economics agriculture extension, rural economics etc. I have one documentation released 2013 based on Dry land fishery which effective for rural areas women under RRA (Revitalizing rainfed agriculture), UNDP (United Nation Development programme) and ABF (Axis bank foundation). I have also some training experience from MANAGE (Hyderabad), CIFA (Bhubaneswar).I am also member of Agriculture Circle, Access agriculture, RRA Network and editorial board member of AS agriculture.

Dr. Akas Pinaringan Sujalu is a Associate Professor at Agrotechnology Department of Agricultural Faculty, the University of 17 Agustus 1945 Samarinda (East Kalimantan, Indonesia). He received his Graduate in Geophysics and Meteorology in Bogor Agricultural University (1987), M.F.Trop. and Ph.D in Forest Science in Mulawarman University in 2002 and 2015, respectively. From 1995 until 2011, he worked as research institute in the University of 17 Agustus 1945 Samarinda, Samarinda City, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. He has published many different articles in scientific paper, journals such as, agroclimate especially about climate changed and water balanced, Forest Science especially microclimate, ephipytes. He participated to different courses organized by Regional Research Council, PERHIMPI and P-TALI. He is also serving as a member of the Editorial board (AGRIFOR and Riset Journal) and reviewer of many journals.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Akas Pinaringan Sujalu research interests are Climate, Agriculture, water management, Biodiversity (forest) and environment.

I am an Associate Professor in the Cilimli Vocational School at the University of Duzce where I have been a faculty member since 2010. I have completed my PhD in 2009 related with plant genetics at Marmara University in Istanbul-Turkey.

My research interests lie in the area of plant science, ranging from theoretical application to wet-lab studies. My other areas of interest include plant stress physiology and biodiversity studies. In wet-lab studies, I have studied the effects of the abiotic stress conditions on plants, including drought, salinity, cold, and heavy metal stresses. The gene expression levels of some important gene families were investigated by using RT-PCR applications. Also, genetic diversity analyses were performed in plants by using molecular marker methods, such as AFLP, ISSR, and SSR. The phylogenetic analyses were made using nuclear and chloroplast sequences, especially nuclear ITS and chloroplast trnL-F, matK, and rbcL regions.

In recent years, I have focused on bioinformatics applications in plant genomes. I have mined gene members in plant genomes and comparative analyses were performed among plant species. Also, 3D protein modeling, gene co-expression network, protein-protein interaction (PPIs), in silico gene expression profiles, and protein docking were performed.

Awaad M. H. H. had his BSc. degree in Veterinary Medicine from Cairo University in 1968, Egypt and then earned MVSc. and PhD degrees in 1972 and 1975 respectively in Poultry Diseases from Cairo University. He had appointed in Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Cairo University as a demonstrator (1968), Assistant Lecturer (1972), Lecturer (1975), Assistant Professor (1979), Professorship (1984), Deputy head of Department of Veterinary Medicine and Poultry Diseases (1987-1991), Chairman of Department of poultry diseases (1996-2008), Professor Emeritus (2008- till now). He has more than 93 scientific papers in Poultry Diseases and supervised more than 35 MVSc and 30 PhD students. Shared in the project of the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology on Production of poultry feeding mixtures (1984–1985). P.I. of NARP (national agriculture research program) funded research project entitled “Breeding program for the development of native egg type breeds of chickens”, Grant CAN 424 AN 43 (1990–1991). P.I. of a KACST (King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology) Funded national research project concerned with studying the “ Etiologies of moralities of Poultry” in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Research project NO. AT-10-30 (1991–1995).
Professional Memberships: Alexander Von-Humboldt (Germany). He is a Poultry Diseases expert and consultant, a member of the directory board of the Egyptian Veterinary Poultry Association, a member of supreme council of universities veterinary education sector continual scientific committee for poultry and fish diseases, a member of supreme council of Animal Health Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Egypt.

Prof Awaad research interests are Poultry Diseases, Environmental friendly approach Poultry Disease management options, Poultry Disease epidemiology, diagnosis, and biocontrol.

Dr. Sanku Dattamudi is currently a Postdoctoral Associate in Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. He was a NSF funded CREST postdoctoral scholar of analytical soil chemistry at Florida International University for two years. He did his PhD in Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture, Louisiana State University, USA. He did his MSc in Soil Water Engineering & Soil Physics, Punjab Agricultural University, India. He pursued BSc in Agriculture (Soil Science major), Visva Bharati University, India. He worked as NSF CREST Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Soil Chemistry, SERC, Florida International University, USA. He also worked as Research Associate in Soil Testing and Environmental Chemistry, Louisiana State University, USA. Sanku Dattamudi published many papers in various national and international journals. He attended congresses, meetings and conferences. He has teaching experience also. He received many awards, grants and honours like Center for Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) grant, SERC Earth Educators’ Rendezvous award, etc. He is a Reviewer/Editor For numerous scholarly journals. He is also a member of many professional societies like Ecological Society of America (ESA), National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT), etc. He has certifications/license from National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Conference (NELAC), Online Boating Safety Certification, etc.

Soil health, Soil management, Soil physical properties and C sequestration, Urban agriculture, Agro-ecology, Effect of soil and nutrient management on upland crop production. Carbon cycling and sequestration. Air quality issues (ammonia, methane, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide) from agricultural crop production, Physio-chemical analysis of particulates from sugarcane harvesting, Micro-meteorological analysis of bi-directional ammonia emission. Wetland ecology, Soil-Plant-Microbial interactions in wetland soil, Soil and sediment bio-geochemistry, Phosphorus runoff and soil/sediment/water quality issues in Everglades’ national park, Nutrient pollution and trace gas emission in restored wetlands at Southern Florida.

She is a high caliber individual with gravitas and a proven 12 years of excellent track record of Environmental Research, administrative and teaching experience in the academic setting. With creative and effective management skills conducted and attended many workshops and conferences. Being a natural relationship builder she equipped with the vision and purpose to drive organizational change. Her proactive nature enables to adapt positively to any challenges that arise and is a wise decision maker who does not hesitate to own up responsibility regarding key issues and cases. As a flexible and efficient worker with changing priorities and diverse audiences, conducted well-received executive programs and facilitated strategic planning workshops. Being a Doctorate in Environmental Science, NET qualified Post Graduate Gold medalist, has good experience in research and academic fields with an evidence of many National and International publications. Participated and presented papers in various conferences across the country.

ECOLOGY, BIOFUELS, BIO-REMEDIATION, CLIMATE CHANGE

Mr. Vamsi Nagaraju is currently working as an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at S.R.K.R. Engineering College, Bhimavaram. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Civil Engineering from Andhra University in 2014, Andhra Pradesh, India and he received a Master degree in Civil Engineering in the specialization of Geotechnical Engineering from Andhra University, India. He has guided 15 UG projects and 5 PG dissertations. He has published more than 50 research papers in International/national journals and conferences. He has received best paper award of Young Geotechnical Engineer – 2018. He also secured first prize in national startup challenge for best innovation, startup India -2018. He was active and focused researcher in soil engineering and aquaculture impacts. He attended many national and international symposiums, workshops and conferences and he is a life member for Indian Geotechnical Society.

Soil Engineering, Aquaculture, Shrimps, Engineered Aquaculture Ponds, Mangroves, Mosquito Repellents, Environmental Science, Green Ecosystem, Biochemistry, Sustainable Environment

Luis Loures is a Landscape Architect and Agronomic Engineer, Vice-President of the Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre, who holds a Ph.D. in Planning and a Post-Doc in Agronomy. During his academic career he had teach in several courses in different Universities including the University of Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Letterkenny Institute of Technology – Ireland, and the University of Algarve, mainly regarding the fields of landscape architecture, urban and environmental planning and sustainability. Currently, He is a researcher both at VALORIZA – Research Center for Endogenous Resource Valorization – Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre and CIEO – Research Centre for Spatial and Organizational Dynamics – University of Algarve, where he is a researcher on several financed research projects focusing several different investigation domains such as urban planning, landscape reclamation and urban redevelopment, and the use of planning as a tool for achieving sustainable development.

Dr. Tahereh Mohammadabadi is a scientist, researcher, teacher, Associate professor, biochemist, animal nutritionist and specialist in production of healthy animal products such as meat and milk, and using medicinal herbs in dairy cow, sheep and goat or poultry. She worked as an academic member for faculty of animal and food science of Ramin agriculture and Natural Resource University of Khuzestan, Iran. She working as supervisor for many phD and Msc students, also doing many projects in her speciality. Has some patents on producing of some enzymes from gut bacteria. She is member of the Iranian society of animal science and medicinal herb society, member of the editorial board of some Journals, reviewer for many national and international journals, and member of scientific excellence centre and research centre, member of scientific part of some organizations. Also was member of editorial board of some international and national scientific conferences. Dr. Tahereh Mohammadabadi has over 100 published publications, conference presentations and 5 translated books.

Research in animal (livestock) nutrition, health and organic animal productions, dairy products and meat

Hayder Haraty had his bachelor’s degree in Engineering Architecture from the University of Technology in 2006, Baghdad. After the Graduation, Hayder engaged in various architectural projects in public and private sectors. He pursued his Master’s degree in 2013 at Universiti Putra Malaysia. His master degree thesis studied the typology of the Iraqi traditional courtyard house as functional spaces in low-rise residential units. In 2016, Hayder initiated his doctorate study at Universiti Putra Malaysia. His Ph.D. dissertation concerned the design of ablution space and their cleaning assessment from architectural perception. Hayder worked as a research assistant since 2015 and published many papers in various journals, book sections, and conferences.

Tradition and socio-cultural impact on the design. Conservational study of the low-rise residential building. Architectural planning and space’s usage in regards to human interaction to avoid unhygienic spaces. Qualitative approaches including morphological studies, physical observation, ethnography, and interviews

Yi Shiou had her M.S. degree in Department of Seafood Science from National Kaohsiung Marine University in 2009, Taiwan and then earned Ph.D. degree in 2016 from National Cheng Kung University Medical College, Taiwan in Environmental Toxicology. Yi-Shiou currently a Postdoctoral Associate in the Precision Medicine and Healthcare Research Center, Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute. She has exceptionally experienced and proficient in her specialized area, including physiologically functional foods, chemoprevention of cancer and inflammation-related diseases, and tumour biology and Targeting. Since 2007 till now, her hard works has made her a productive scientist. She ahd totally published 31 paper, 11 1st author and 14 2nd author papers in prestigious journals such as Carcinogenesis, Molecular Nutrition & Food Research, Free Radical Biology Medicine, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Journal of Functional Foods, and Journal of Analytical & Pharmaceutical Research.

Balabanov Viktor, Doctor of technical sciences, professor, Scientific supervisor Goryachkin Institute of Mechanics and Energy Russian Timiryazev State Agrarian University – Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy (RSAU – MAA named after K.A. Timiryazev), Head of Sub Committee (SC 8) “Radio navigation and control system in agriculture” of the Technical Committee for Standardization (TC 363) “Radio navigation” Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology (Rosstandart). Author of over 320 scientific and educational works, including 25 monographs, scientific journals and popular science books, 25 descriptions of inventions. and 14 on scientific research reports. Accredited experts of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Innovation Center “Skolkovo”.

Professor Balabanov Viktor is engaged in research in the field of plant mechanization, precise (coordinate) farming, as well as the application of nanomaterials and nanotechnologies in agriculture.

DR. M.K. Yadav is presently working as Associate Professor (Agricultural Biotechnology) at SVP University of Agriculture & Technology Meerut. He completed his education from G. B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology Pantnagar, India’s premiere Agriculture University in Molecular Biology & Biotechnology. His Specialization is Molecular Biology of Abiotic Stress in cereals and Plant Tissue Culture. Dr. Yadav has awarded with two International fellowships, Borlaug Fellow (USDA) & BOYSCAST Fellow (DST, Govt. of India) and worked in University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA and Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics, Waite Campus, The Adelaide University, Adelaide Australia, respectively. He is also designated as young scientist by DST, New Delhi under fast track programme. He also receipt of ‘Established Scientist Award” by a scientific society in the year 2015. Dr. Yadav also received “Dr. P.K. Gupta Vishisht krishi Vaigyanik Award” by Uttar Pradesh Academy of Agriculture Sciences, Government of Uttar Pradesh. He is having good publications in International and National Journals, five gene sequence accessions submitted in NCBI and completed nine Research projects. He also guided many research students under his supervision.

Molecular Biology of Biotic and abiotic stresses in crop plants, Plant Tissue Culture, Molecular Markers

Dr. V. K. Khanna graduated from Delhi University and did his M.Sc and PhD from Haryana Agricultural University in Genetics, followed by Post Doctorate, CSIR. He joined as an Assistant Professor at G. B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar and worked there for nearly 30 years. He has more than 39 years of experience of teaching and conducting research on Wide-hybridization, Genetics and Biotechnology. He has guided 76 M.Sc and Ph.D theses and published 164 research papers in Indian and Foreign Journals of repute. He has also presented 193 research papers in Conferences/Symposia/Workshops in India and abroad, a few of them being Lead Papers including a Key-note address in an International Conference. He has been the Chairman/Co-chairman in many National and International conferences. He Chaired a session at the 7th International Congress of SABRAO and International Symposium of WSAA at Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China from Nov. 16-20, 1993. His group reported the mechanism of crossability between wheat and rye for the first time. He has also published 57 Popular Articles and written 12 Books. He has visited various Universities and Research Stations abroad and presented his research work in conferences in Australia, USA, Germany, UK, Taiwan, Netherlands, Singapore, Russia, Thailand and Philippines. He was a Fellow of Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of UN and worked on Molecular Markers and Genetic Transformation at the University of Queensland, in Australia. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Agrotechnology (Omics group), J. of Horticulture (Omics group) and some Indian journals and Reviewer of some Indian and Foreign Journals. He was a member of the National Review Committee on Genetic Manipulation in the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. He has also filed a Patent with the National Research Development Corporation, N. Delhi. He has taught 24 P.G. and U.G. courses and is currently teaching ‘Molecular Cell Biology’, ‘Pr. of Cytogenetics’ and ‘Molecular and Chromosomal Manipulations for Crop Breeding’ to the P.G. students and ‘Principles of Genetics’ to the undergraduate students He has been the PI of 15 research projects. Dr. V. K. Khanna is the recipient of many awards including the Best Paper awards in various conferences and the Best Teacher Award at India’s first agricultural university i.e. G. B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar. He was felicitated with ‘Vijay Rattan Award’ and Certificate of Excellence for Meritorious Services, Outstanding Performance and Remarkable Role by Dr. Bhisham Narain Singh, former Governor of Tamil Nadu & Assam at a seminar on Economic Growth & National Integration at New Delhi on 25th November 2005, by India International Friendship Society. He was awarded with ‘Bharat Vikas Award’ and Certificate of Excellence for Excellence in the Chosen Field by Hon’ble Smt. Mohsina Kidwai, Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) on the occasion of the significant seminar on Economic Growth & National Integration at New Delhi on 31st August 2006, by International Institute of Success Awareness. He got ‘Rajiv Gandhi Excellence Award’ and Certificate of Excellence for Meritorious Services, Outstanding Performance and Remarkable Role by Hon’ble Lt. Gen. (Retd.) T. P. S. Rawat, P. V. S. M., V. S. M., Minister for Tourism, Excise & Sainik Kalyan (Govt. of Uttaranchal) at a seminar on Economic Growth & National Integration at New Delhi on 31st August 2006, by India International Friendship Society. He was given ‘Gem of India Award’ and Certificate of Excellence for Meritorious Services, Outstanding Performance and Remarkable Role by Shri M. V. Rajasekharan, Hon’ble Minister of State for Planning, Govt. of India at a seminar on Global Participation in India’s Economic Development at New Delhi on 8th January, 2007 by India International Friendship Society. He has worked as Joint Director Research, In charge Govt. notified Seed Testing Laboratory, In charge Pantnagar Centre of Plant Genetic Resources, Acting Registrar, Acting Director Research, Acting Dean of College of Agri- Business Management, Acting Coordinator (Admissions) at G. B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar and In charge Dean at P.G. College, Central Agricultural University (CAU), Barapani, Meghalaya., and Chairman, School of Crop Improvement and he is continuing as Professor, Biotechnology at P.G. College, CAU, Barapani, Meghalaya.

Dr. Mostafa Mirzaei is a researcher in Agricultural Zoology Research Department, Iranian Research I nstitute of Plant Protection (IRIPP), Agricultural Research,Education and Extension Organization (AREEO) in Tehran, Iran. He received his PhD degree in Insect Biosystematics in 2015 from University of Tehran in Iran. From October 2016, he is Assistant Professor at IRIPP. He has authored several publications in various journals. In addition, He is an editor and reviewer in various international journals. He was in University of Milan, for internship during 2014-2015. During his stay, he was participated to research project as following: – DNA barcoding of leaf-beetles and on the genetic diversity of Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata) in Iran. – A survey on possible vectors of Xylella fastidiosa reveals its presence in Italy since 2006.

Dr. Mostafa Mirzaei research interests focus on 1. Agricultural mites’ pest control and Systematic of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida), 2. Biosystematics of Leaf beetle, (Systematic and Classification)

Mohamed M. El-Mogy is an Associate Professor at the Department of Vegetable Crops at Faculty of Agriculture – Cairo University in Egypt. He received his B.E. degree in horticulture science from Cairo University, Giza, Egypt, in 1996, and the Ph.D. degree in vegetable science (minor: postharvest technology) Cairo University, Giza, Egypt, and Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany as a dual program in 2007. He was working as visiting scientist at the Bioscience Department, Cardiff University, Wales, UK, French National Institute for Agricultural Research, Avignon, France, Swedish University of Agriculture Science, Alnarp, Sweden in 2017, 2014, and 2010, respectively. Also, he was working as researcher at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from 2011-2013.

Production of vegetable crops under open field and greenhouse conditions, Sustainable and organic crops production. Postharvest technology. Pre and postharvest factors affecting on quality and storage ability of vegetable crops Non-chemical control of pre and postharvest diseases.

Dr Vivek Kumar Trivedi received B.sc. (Ag.) Hons. degree in 2011 from C.S.J.M. University, Kanpur and then earned M.Sc. and PhD degree in soil science and agricultural chemistry in 2014 and 2017 from C.S. Azad university of agriculture and technology, Kanpur. He was appointed Senior Research Fellow in ICAR-Indian Agriculture Research Institute, SS&AC in project entitled “AICRP on Micro and Secondary Nutrients and Pollutant Elements in Soils and Plants” Delhi Centre. Dr. Trivedi received different awards from different professional societies. He has been involved in development and evaluation of novel micronutrient fertilizer products like micronutrient loaded nano clay polymer composites (NCPCS) using rice and wheat as test crops. He published more than 10 research paper and 5 Research article in peer reviewed journals of national and international repute.

Dr Trivedi actively engaged in research to soil health care and minimizing the cost of production of different crops for farmers benefit.

Dr M L Dotaniya, Scientist at ICAR-Directorate of Rapeseed Mustard Research, Bharatpur, India under the umbrella of ICAR, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, GOI. He has completed his bachelor degree from the SKN College of Agriculture, Jobner, Rajasthan. After that master degree in Soil Science (Ag) from GBPUA&T, Pantnagar as a Junior Research Fellow; Ph. D. in Soil Science & Agricultural Chemistry from ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, New Delhi as a CSIR Research scholar. Dr Dotaniya worked in his academic mostly on soil fertility aspect, i.e. Management of N and K in Indo-Gangatic plain of India by application of crop residue management; use of sugarcane waste material for minimizing/ enhancing the P use efficiency soils. After that, he selected for the Scientist post through the ASRB and joined the National Academy of Agricultural Research Management, Hyderabad on April, 2010. After this I served more than 8 years at Division of Environmental Soil Science, ICAR-Indian Institute of Soil Science, Bhopal as a scientist (senior scale). Presently, Dr Dotaniya, Scientist at ICAR-DRMR, Bharatpur and working in the Crop Production Unit having the responsibility to create a database on the extent of soil pollution due to indiscriminate use of fertilizers, city, industrial and agricultural wastes for crop production and to develop suitable prescriptions and technologies for safe recycling of these wastes into agriculturally productive soils. The division is also engaged in determining baseline concentration of heavy metals for delineating contaminated areas, evaluating sink capacity of soils for heavy metal pollutants, developing technologies for remediation of polluted soils, developing technologies for safe use of different waste material in agriculture, developing soil management practices for minimizing emission of greenhouse gases, and studying impact and risk assessment of nano-particles on soil health and plant nutrition. He is mainly focused on heavy metals pollution and their remediation options. Developed Geo-accumulation index for tannery irrigated fields, metal toxicity limits in sewage irrigated lands, evaluation of multi-metal toxicity in crop plants. Soil fertility limits in tribal dominated belt of MP. He has published many research papers/ articles/ review papers/ book chapters/ books on heavy metal aspects. He is working as a member of the Editorial board of repute magazine as well as scientific journals. His scientific contribution rewarded many prestigious Awards by repute societies/ organizations. Dr Dotaniya acting as a Reviewer for a number of journals; and actively engaged in extension activities for the upliftment of agricultural communities across the India.

Soil & Water pollution, Multi metal toxicity, Heavy metal remediation, Salinity management, Safe use of sewage and sludge in agriculture

Dr. Esakkimuthu M., currently working in the Kerala Agricultural University and has completed his graduation from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University in 2010 with Post-metric merit scholarship programme. Thereafter, he got Junior Research Fellowship from Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi and completed M.Sc. (Agricultural Extension) programme from Kerala Agricultural University. He completed Ph.D. (Agricultural Extension and Communication) from G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar (Uttarakhand). He has also received UGC Fellowship for his doctoral programme and has qualified in ICAR-NET and UGC-NET with Lectureship. Besides this, he has published more than 100 papers, books, chapters, technical booklet etc., to his credit in reputed journals and books in India and abroad.

Rural innovations in decentralised agricultural system. Rural entrepreneurship Scaling up of agrarian farm families Rebuilding of climate change based food resilient system

Mr. Harsha pursued his B.Sc Degree in Agriculture in 2015 from University of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Shivamogga, Karnataka, India and then earned M.Sc. Degree in Soil Science during 2017 from University of Agricultural Sciences(UAS), Dharwad, Karnataka, India. Presently, he is pursuing his Ph. D in Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry in University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Since 2017 till now he has published and presented more than 13 papers (International and National journals, Seminars and conferences) in the field of red and black soil studies and also in remote sensing and GIS approach of crop studies. He joined as a Senior Research Fellow (SRF) at World Bank funded project-Sujala-III, UAS, Dharwad with depth of study related to soils, soil survey, nutrient status, soil profile study, soil analysis, mapping and Socio-economic status pertaining to the study area.

Mr. Harsha BR research interests are Department of Agriculture i.e Soil Science and Agricultureal Chemistry with a research friendly approach of soil and nutrient management options and serving farming community in this regard. He also has interest on research that connnects with agriculture especially with soils, plant nutrients, remote sensing and GIS studies.

Dr. Julie S. Berame is a University Instructor at Caraga State University of the Science Education Department. He received his MSc Ed. in 2007 at Philippine Normal University and Ph.D. in Education at Father Saturnino Urios University in 2016 (Full Government Scholar) and his second Ph.D. in Science Education – Biology (CHED Scholar) at De La Salle University, Manila. From 2016 up to present, he worked as an active researcher in social sciences in the universities. He has published different articles in international indexed journals such as ISI, Scopus and others. He is also serving as eminent reviewer of many international journals.

Biology, Environmental Sciences, Social Sciences, Computer Science

PhD Liana Salan??, focused in the last 7 years on research topics which aimed the analysis of a wide range of biologically active compounds with antioxidant character, respectively antimicrobial (bitter acids, essential oils, phenolic compounds and flavonoids), from various vegetal matrices (hops, beer, malt, wort, beer industry residues, fruits and vegetables, vinegar). Most of the articles were focused on determination/quantification of bitter compounds, essential oils and phenols as biomarkers of different varieties of hops and spent grain resulted from the production of beer with application in the food industry and pharmaceutical. The expertise in the field of extraction and analysis of bioactive compounds, food quality and safety control, development and optimization of new functional products, can be proven by all papers published previously. PhD Liana Salan?? is reviewer for ISI journals and International Database journals and member in editorial board for several journals. She has done an international project on “A study on young drinking behaviourevaluation the relationship between taste reactivity and special beer consumption”- Ref EA 15 45, Funding agency: ERAB (The European Foundation for Alcohol Research); Ongoing period: 2016-2017.

Salan?? Liana’s research interests include Food science, extraction and analysis of bioactive compounds, development of new functional products, chromatographic technique

Dr Khursheed Ahmad Wani is Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, ITM University, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India. He has completed his M.Sc and PhD in Environmental Science from Jiwaji University, Gwalior, India. He has more than five years of teaching and research experience. His areas of interest include vermicomposting, environmental impact assessment and occupational health. He has published research papers in various national and international journals and is the author of three books on environmental science. He is a member of several national and international organizations and is in the editorial board of various journals. He has organized different programmes on environmental awareness and has completed research project sponsored by Madhya Pradesh Council of Science and Technology, Bhopal, India

Dr. Reyazul Rouf Mir, Assistant professor in the Division of Plant Breeding & Genetics at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir (SKUAST-K) has more than 10 years of research experience. He has a longstanding engagement in research in the area of applied genomics of Jute, wheat, and legumes like chickpea, common bean, pigeonpea and groundnut. Dr. Mir has significantly contributed for the development of different types of molecular markers (in jute), bi-parental mapping populations for gene discovery, QTL/gene discovery for important targeted traits (in jute, wheat, pigeonpea, common bean and groundnut) and their use in marker-assisted selection programs (in wheat). Development of improved lines with superior quality traits in wheat through marker-assisted selection (MAS) programs. Dr. Mir has contributed significantly in the development of physical map in chickpea. He has also worked for one year at UC-Davis and contributed significantly in characterizing chickpea wild germplasm for variety of traits and developing wild × cultivated introgression population and in identification/cloning of genes for flowering time and nodulation. My current research programs involve the study of common bean biodiversity, gene pools, gene discovery for key nutritional traits in legumes and cereals and breeding for disease resistance.

Wheat and common bean genetics/biotechnology for gene discovery/validation. Molecular breeding of wheat and common bean for the development of wheat/common bean varieties. Development of new improved varieties/germplasm with enhanced yield potential, resistance/tolerance to biotic/abiotic stresses.

I have been working as an Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University Sheringal, Upper Dir, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan since December 2016. Recently, I have also been selected as an Adjunct Research Fellow in the School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Australia. Earlier, I worked on the same post at Department of Environmental Sciences, PMAS, Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan (10-03-2015 to 09-03-2016). I got my PhD in 2015 from Institute of Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan, under the kind supervision of Late Dr. Muhammad Arshad, A great Soil Microbiologist and Initiator of Biofertilizer Research in Pakistan. During my PhD, I have worked on “Sustainable phosphorus nutrition of legumes using rock phosphate enriched compost and phosphate solubilizing bacteria”. During my PhD, I have been to School of Plant Biology, The University of Western Australia, Australia and worked with a world renewed plant scientists Prof. Hans Lambers and Patrick Finnegan. I am also currently engaged in close collaboration with both of these scientists. I have also worked on water testing laboratory during my internship at Ayub Agricultural research Institute (AARI), Faisalabad.

My current research interests are sustainable crop production of crops using integrated sources of phosphorus e.g. heavy metal resistant bacteria, phosphatic fertilizers and rock phosphate enriched compost etc. under heavy metals stress. Carbon sequestration and biofuel production using Algae, Nanotechnology for better nutrition and sustainable production of crop plants, behavior of microbes to Nanoparticles

Dr. Md. Saiful Islamis an Associate Professor of the Department of Soil Science, Patuakhali Science and Technology University (PSTU), Dumki, Patuakhali-8602, Bangladesh.He obtained B.Sc.Ag.(Hon.) and M Sc (Ag) in Soil Sciencefrom Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), securing Eightposition in the First Class in B.Sc.Ag. (Hon.) and Firstposition in the First Classin MSc (Ag) in Soil Science in order of merit. In March 1, 2007 he joined as a lecturer ofthe Department of Soil Science, PSTU, Bangladeshand became as an Assistant and Associate Professor in 2009 and 2014, respectively. Md. Saiful Islam went to Yokohama National University, Japan in 2010 with Japanese Government Scholarship (Monbusho), where he obtained his PhD (2014) in Environmental Science under the supervision of Professor Dr. Shigeki Masunaga in the Laboratory of Environmental Risk Management. HisPhD theses were involved in understanding trace metals in different environmental media (soil, sediment, water and foodstuffs) where ecological and health risks wereassessed based on the concentrations of trace metals and exposure to humans.Dr. Islam has awarded as “Visiting Fellowship Award” by Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO) from the government of Japan (October, 2016–January, 2017) at Yokohama National University (YNU), Japan. He has also awarded a fellowship (2018–2020) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) to work on ‘Epigenetic andpost-transcriptional regulation of nutrient transport’ at the University of Tokyo, Japan.

Dr. Islam’s research interests are epigenetic and post-transcriptional regulation of nutrient transport in plants, development of metals resistant plant varieties and identification of arsenic detoxification mechanism in rice plants, concentrated biogeochemical cycling of phosphorous (P) and trace metals in soil, humic acid modified nano-hydroxyapatite and vanadium (V)-doped birnessites (nanotechnology) for trace metals scavenging from the environment, in trace metals especially environmental toxicology, emerging pollutants in the environment and sustainable development, Chemical speciation and bioavailability of trace metals, organic pollutants and various toxic chemicals in the environment for sustainable management, human health and ecological risk assessment.

Prof. Mahmoud Hozayn, born on 9 September of 1969, is an Egyptian by birth and the current professor in Department of Field Crops Research, Division of Agricultural and Biological Research, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt. He obtained Bachelor of agriculture science (BSc; Agronomy) with very good honor degree in 1991 from Assuit University and awarded Master and Doctoral thesis’s (Agronomy) from Cairo University in 1998 and 2003, respectively. He was awarded the best scientific publishing prize in 2012, 2013 and 2014 from National Research Centre. Headed the Statistical Consulting Unit for five years (2005-2010), organized and teach more than 40 training courses, workshop and seminars in field of applied statistic for MSc and PhD students at Training and Capacity Development Center, NRC. Attendance and participation of many national/international conferences and training courses in (Egypt – China – London – Cambridge – Austria – Germany – Hungary – Turkey – Kuwait – Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Oman. Supervisor for three MSc and PhD students and guided many students to conduct statistical analysis of their data. Prof Hozayn, current PI for two national projects (related to improving water and crop productivity under salinity stress) and as PI, Co-PI and team research work has successfully implemented and completed 37 inside research project funded by NRC. More than 57 published research papers in journals/conferences of National/International and one book chapter (sprinkler).

Agronomy production

I, Aliyev Zakir Huseyn oglu was born in 03.05.1949, in the family of an employee. In 1972 he graduated with honors from the Department of Mechanical Azerbaijan State Oil Academy. Po end of ASOA in 1972, in the face of a specialist with higher education being, a tendency to engage in research activities was taken in Azerbaijan Scientific-Research Institute (AzINMASh) for the position of Art. engineer in the department “wellhead”, where he worked on 1975. In 1975, due to the results of earlier research papers employed in the profile of activities and thematic community (v.t.ch study “inventory of land water resources, and the dynamics of its change.” “” Structural changes of the earth “,” Caspian Sea environmental problems, and the atmosphere surface air surface “, etc.) has been invited to work in the Academy of Sciences of Az. SSR. the Scientific Center “Caspian”, which later functioned as the introduction of “Interkosmos” of the USSR (now called the “Azerbaijan National Aerospace Agency – ANASA”), where he worked on 1994. In the period of 1975-1994 years of working in the organization in various responsible positions (Head of Sector, Head. Laboratory, Head. Department, Ch. Technologist, Ch. Engineer Company, Deputy. Director of the plant, the plant manager, the head of the scientific-technical complex) involved development, creation and implementation of a number of scientific and technical projects and thematic programs for agricultural purposes including work performed by special resolution CM Az. Republic titled “Space of Azerbaijan national economy”, which was one of the leading specialists in the direction of subjects. Occupying positions of responsibility in ANASA system, was the supervisor of a number of these projects (R & D) and many others participated directly in the face of the leading in the direction of, the results of which have been successfully implemented in all areas of agricultural production, not only in Azerbaijan, but also in other states CIS, Turkey, Iran. In 1994 he was invited to work in the Baku office VNPO “Rainbow” (now renamed the Institute of Erosion and Irrigation of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences of the Republic), worked here on the following positions: Head. Design department, director SKTB, Head. complex development department, creation and implementation of low-intensity irrigation systems, and now, and the Deputy Director of the Institute of Erosion and Irrigation of the Republic of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences on scientific work, which is now. I have degree D.Ph. sciences, associate professor, she is the author of over 200 published scientific works, including 10 and weighty monographs and more than 15 patents, many of which have found large-scale introduction in production of farmers and others. Farms both in Azerbaijan and in other CIS countries (bw Georgia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Russia) as well as in Turkey, Poland and Iran. Taking part in the implementation of a large number of international scientific and economic projects implemented in the framework of the program, “FAO” “ICARDA”, “Azerbaijan-Russia-Turkey”, “The Azerbaijan-Poland” and others, where he was executive in charge of development, whose works are also successfully introduced agriculture in many countries: in the CIS and far abroad. Research interests, -Agrano-environmental problems resource saving, is the supervisor of the eponymous educational, scientific and university-academic direction of the study performed in conjunction with a number of scientific research institute on problems of development, creation and implementation of automation systems, low-intensity and optimize irrigation in the conditions of insufficient natural moist areas Azerbaijan, in order to develop agriculture and mining study the possibility of creating environmental technologies to combat soil erosion. Areas of teaching and methodological activities: Object-oriented design technology information systems, remote control systems of low-intensity agricultural irrigation; Modern distance education learning technology: problems and prospects and the fundamentals of irrigated agriculture on sloping lands. The initiator of the creation and implementation of new information and telecommunication remote control technology in irrigation systems and transmission of information to consumers through the Internet or satellite communication links. Given their contribution to the development of the agro-industrial science as a result of many years of scientific activity, in 1997 he was elected a member of. correspondent, and in 1998 a full member (academician) of the International Academy of Ecology and Natural Resources. In 2001 he was elected a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the Russian Federation The water problems. In 2014 he was elected professor of RAE, established the medal A. Nobel. In 2015, for his significant contribution to the development of world science, he was awarded the order “PRIMUS INTERPARES”, etc.

Agrarian science, soil science, erosion studies, Irrigation melioration, hydrology, hydrography, recultivation, ecology, biology, environmental technologies, earth science, aerospace research, remote sensing and GIS

Dr. Avadhesh Kumar Koshal, M.Phil. (2000) & Ph.D. (2008, Botany) has published more than 25 research papers in international & national journals & Nine different chapters in national level books are also published. He has more than 15 Years research experience in the field of Eco-Physiology. Dr. Koshal is an Associate Professor in Motherhood University, Roorkee, Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India. Today, active life member of several scientific societies (ISCA, Kolkata; ISRS, Dehradun ; SRDA, Meerut and HTHS, Meerut). Dr. Koshal received Young Fellow Award (2009); Young Scientist Award (2013);SBMLS-Gold Medal Award in Plant Science (2015); Young Environmentalist Award (2017) & Science Investigator Award (2018) & Best Scientist (Teaching) Award (2018).

Agriculture, Soil, Remote Sensing & GIS related to climatic change of the current environment

Mohamed Haroon Basha had his BSc. Degree in Physics from Jamal Mohamed College Bharadhidasan University trichy in 1998 and earned MSc. Degree in physics from Jamal Mohamed College Bharadhidasan University trichy Tamilnadu India in 2001 and MPhil degree in Physics from Jamal Mohamed College Bharadhidasan University trichy in 2005 and Completed his PhD degree in Soil CEC , Physical and Chemical and Physicochemical analytical studies from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University tirunelveli Tamilnadu India in 2017 and he has more than 5 papers in the field of soil CEC and soil physical, chemical and physico chemical analysis.

Dr. A. Mohamed Haroon Basha has research interest in Soil CEC and soil physical, chemical and physico chemical analysis and soil water conservation Environmental –soil interactions Soil CEC regarding soil fertility. .

Dr. Hyat Mahmud is an Additional Deputy Director (Crop) in Department of Agricultural Extension (Bangladesh Civil Service: Agriculture cadre), Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh since April 25, 1994. Dr. Mahmud graduated from Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), Mymensingh and obtained his Master of Science degree in Plant Pathology in the Department of Plant Pathology, Bangladesh Agricultural University. He achieved his Doctor of Philosophy degree (Research field, Biological control, Seed pathology and molecular plant pathology) in 2016 from BAU. He has published more than 25 papers in reputed national and international journals that have been cited over 25 times, and his publication H-index is remarkable. He has been serving as a reviewer and editorial board member of reputed many international Journals. In addition to this, he received a good number of professional trainings in-country and overseas to enhance professional, research and administrative competence for the Department of Agricultural Extension, and project development for sustainable agriculture, and also have excellent inter-personal and research skills developed over the last twenty four years. He is working on Bipolaris oryzae for sequencing gene in observing variation over the years with Dr. M. Delwar Hossain, BAU, Mymensing.

Bio-control, Seed pathology, Molecular plant pathology and gene sequencing of fungi; Bioassay of microbes, detecting changes in molecular characterization of fungus, and Genome analysis.

Dr.D. Jini received her doctoral degree (2010-2014) in Biotechnology from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India. She is working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical engineering, Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She is a plant biotechnologist with diverse research interest. Her major research work was on understanding the physiological and molecular mechanism of alleviative effect of phytohormones for salt tolerance in rice. She is also trying to find the novel anti-diabetic/ anti-cancerous phytochemicals from plants. She has 20 publications in highly reputed international journals and she has presented her research works in more than seven International/ National conferences/ symposium. She is also serving as Editorial Board Member and Reviewer in various reputed international journals.

Dr. Amanullah is currently working as Associate Professor in the Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Crop Production Sciences, The University of Agriculture Peshawar, Pakistan. Dr. Amanullah did his PhD in Agronomy from The University of Agriculture Peshawar in 2004 & Post Doctorate from Dryland Agriculture Institute, WTAMU, Canyon Texas, USA in 2010. Dr. Amanullah has published six books and more than 150 research papers in peer reviewed journals including more than 80 papers in the impact factor journals. Dr. Amanullah has also written more than 15 articles for growers in local languages. So for, Dr. Amanullah has supervised two PhDs, 20 MSc (Hons) and more than 25 BSc (Hons) students. Dr. Amanullah has been awarded with three Research Productivity Awards by the Pakistan Council for Science and Technology (PCST), Islamabad in 2011-12, 2012-13, and 2015-16. Dr. Amanullah also won the first prize in the innovative research proposal competition arranged by DICE at the University of Gujarat in 2013-14.

Dr. Amanullah field of interests includes: Agronomy, Field Crops Production, Crop Physiology & Growth Analysis, Inter-Cropping & Plants Competition, Biodiversity, Crop Nutrition, Fertilizer and Water Use Efficiency, Dryland Agriculture & Drought, Organic Farming, Crops Management under Stressful Environments, Sustainable Crop, Sustainable Soil Management and Water Management, and Farmers training etc.

Dr. A.K. Srivastava, having received his M.Sc.(Ag) and Ph.D in Soil Science from famous Banaras Hindu University in 1984 and 1988, respectively, is currently working as Principal Scientist (Soil Science) at Indian Council of Agricultural Research – Central Citrus Research Institute, Nagpur over the last 29 years.

Nutrient constraints analysis of citrus orchards by developing DRIS-based soil-plant nutrient diagnostics covering major citrus cultivars grown across different regions, site specific nutrient management using spatial variability in soil fertility (4R Stewardship Concept in Citrus), development of citrus rhizosphere specific microbial consortium and INM module with emphasis on soil carbon loading and microbial turnover of nutrients, fertigation scheduling through partitioning of nutrients and water vis-à-vis crop phenology, nutrient mapping using geospatial tools, nutrient, transformation through partitioning of soil microbial biomass nutrients within citrus rhizosphere, fertility map as decision support tool for fertilizer recommendation.

Dr. H.C. Yashavantha Rao obtainied his Doctoral degree and Masters degree in Microbiology at Microbial Drugs Laboratory, Department of Studies in Microbiology, Manasagangotri, University of Mysore, India. He is working in the field of biodiscovery of anti-infective drugs from endophytic fungi and actinomycetes assocated with medicinal plants. He has been invited as a ‘Speaker’ for several International conferences held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Singapore to mention in few. He has published many scientific research articles in international peer reviewed journals. He has also published book chapters, serves as Editor in reputed journals and bagged several awards from different organizations. His areas of research are multidisciplinary, which are as but not limited to: Bioprespecting of Microbial endophytes, Natural products chemistry, Anti-cancer drugs, Microbial genomics, Nano biotechnology, Management of infectious diseases and multidrug resistant pathogens.

Biodiversity of Medicinal Plants, Biodiscovery of Natural products, anticancer drugs, chemical and biological interactions, polyketide anti-infective drugs from endophytes, Biodiversity, Microbial genomics, Management of infectious diseases and multidrug resistant pathogens, Nano biotechnology.

Dr. Shambhu Kumar is presently working as a Senior Scientist at Department of Forest Pathology, Kerala Forest Research Institute, Kerala, India. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Botany (Mycology) from Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University, India. He has over ten year’s research experience. Dr. Kumar is the recipient of Fast Track Young Scientist award by SERB-DST, Government of India and worked at Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, Lucknow. He has published over fifty research papers in peer-reviewed and reputed international and national journals. He has participated and presented papers in several international and national conferences/workshops and acquired national training on Biodiversity, Bioinformatics and Molecular taxonomy. He is a member of the International Society for Fungal Conservation (ISFC), UK and Life member of the Mycological Society of India, and Society for Basic and Applied Mycology. He is an Editorial member and reviewer of various international and national journals.

Mycotaxonomy and Mycopathology

Dr. Tarek Kapiel is currently working as Assistant Professor, of Plant Biotechnology at Biology Department, Faculty of Sciences and Arts, Al-Baha University, KSA; and Division of Cytology and Genetics, Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Cairo University (on leave). He holds a Bachelor of Science from the Department of Botany in 1986, Faculty of Science, Cairo University and he received a Master degree in Genetic Engineering and plant tissue culture from the Division of Cytology and Genetics, Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, in 1986. He received his Ph.D. degree in the field of Genetic Engineering, Plant Tissue Culture and Biotechnology, in 2004 in collaboration with the Institute for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology at the University of Menoufia and Clemson University, SC, USA. He was working as Visiting Scientist at the Faculty of Life Sciences and Forestry, Department of Horticulture, Clemson University, South Carolina and then later worked as a Visiting Professor at the same institution. He worked as Scientific Advisor and Mentor at Governor School of Science and Mathematics, South Carolina, U.S. He also served as a consultant of Southern Sun Microsystems Research Company. He represented the Academy of Scientific Research and Ministry of Higher Education in many International forums, such as the Jordanian-Egyptian joint Synchrotron, and the granting of the European Union and the Organization World Intellectual Property Organization. He attended many specialized training courses and he is a member of several associations and scientific bodies, and participated in several national scientific projects.

Plant biotechnology, Plant Molecular Biology, Plant Tissue Culture, Plant Tissue Culture and Genetic Transformation, Plant molecular genetics, plant genetics, plant breeding, cytogenetics, genetic variation, phylogenetic, Low Cost of Plant Tissue Culture Technique, Botany, Biology, Biotechnology, Bioinformatics, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Chemistry, Biodiversity, Conservation Biology, Climate Change, Biochemistry, Environmental Science, Evolutionary Biology, Sustainable Development, Microbiology, Environmental Studies, Immunology, Genetics, and Environmental Sustainability.

Food technology; Food quality; Food production. Plant physiology and biochemistry

JinSeopBak has a college-degree in Yonsei Univ., a MS/PhD in Korea Univ. with top-honors, and LittD/ScD/PhD in IBC (in Cambridge). He is/was in Faculty of Kyonggi Univ. and KAIST (as Project-Leader). He was appointed to the post of Secretary-General/Professor/Director General (for Asia)/Adviser in IBC. He worked as a researcher/scholar/judge especially in UC Berkeley (conditionally), Seoul National Univ. and MIT (conditionally). In Korea Univ., Prof. Bak played a key role in teaching Physical Chemistry. He is a leading member of many academies and nonprofit/profit organizations (e.g., Mensa). His main area of investigation is Life/Natural/Applied Sciences. He has achieved many publications, 2 patents, 14 grants. He is a reviewer of more than 100 journals, and member of 45 editorial boards. He has been cited especially in Marquis Who’s Who and IBC.

I believe that my experiences make me both the ideal researcher and global leader for performing advanced highthroughput technological studies.Until now, I generally explored almost every possible academic endeavor, including Biological Sciences, Food Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Applied Sciences

Dr. Vaitheeswaran Thiruvengadam M.Sc., M. Phil., Ph.D., has been working as Lecturer 1, Department of Aquaculture, DMI St. John the Baptist University, Mangochi, Republic of Malawi, Central Africa. He was worked as a Project Head and Administration, All Male Tilapia Project, (Industrial Work Experience) Victoria Treasures Limited, Kampala, Uganda, He holds over 24 years of fisheries resource management and taxonomy, and he has received and awarded (Ph.D) Endeavour International Postgraduate Research Scholarship Award (AUS $ 73,200), Doctor of Philosophy, School of Aquaculture, University of Tasmania, Australia. He also one of the Renowned Speakers of International Conference on Aquaculture and Fisheries, held on 20-22 July, 2015, at Brisbane Australia. He also one of the International Organizing Committee Members and Key Note Speakers Be a part of 3rd World Aquaculture and Marine Biology Congress – Theme: Transformations in Fisheries and Aquaculture, held on 19-20, 2019 at Osaka, Japan and World Congress on Recent Advances in Aquaculture Research & Fisheries, June 10-11, 2019, Dublin, Ireland. Link to be https://aquaculture-fisheries.pulsusconference.com/organizing-committee

He has a penchant desire and devotion to Teaching and Research work in the field of fisheries science. He has good experience in handling the classes on the Taxonomy of finfish and shellfish (5 credits), Marine fishes (3 credits), and advances in fisheries biology and physiology (2 credits) to the undergraduate students. I was worked as Senior Researcher in Fisheries College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Fisheries University, India, and various R&D funded projects deal with technical and practical knowledge all projects and variety of species viz., shrimp, tilapia, 120 marine species (26 families) and pangasius species in Gulf of Mannar, Southeast of India.

Dr. Vaitheeswaran Thiruvengadam has over 88 substantial publications, including 29 papers in international peer-reviewed publications, 8 international conference papers, Renowned Speakers of International conference at Australia, 28 National peer-reviewed papers, 13 co-edited book, monographs, and training manual, 3 reviewed chapters, 201 external reports in English and Tamil newspaper reports and Renowned Speakers of International conference at Australia. He has new record of finfish and shellfish species of marine invertebrate species of 64 numbers were reported for the first time in Indian coast, Indo-West Pacific coast of Gulf of Mannar, India. He has been updated for the squat lobster taxonomy, biology upto 53 species were reported for the FIRST TIME in Indo-Pacific region and as well as Indian Ocean. I am assisted in the taxonomic description of a new species of cuttle-fish Sepia ramani and Sepia prabahari for the first time from world waters.

He has been as a peer reviewer, an Editorial Board of various International Journal, and associate editor, renowned speaker and membership of different organization and International and National Journals. He guided five students belonging to the Union Territory of Pondicherry, under a research project on Diabetes mellitus, sponsored by University of Paris, France. He was also invited to organize and participate in the National conference and sports meet by different organizations. He has a most suitable person this post and trustworthy and all confident manner in R&D projects under senior level scientists. I am focused on developments in the area of aquaculture health and nutrition of view 2020.

He hold overall experience in technical and administrative in academic and industry level, his experience freshwater, brackishwater and marine water species are well experience in particular fisheries field. He hold experience with regular monitoring the fish health, feeding, reproduction, fry and fingerlings marketing to the fish farmers and industrial people with time frame. He has record all the statements are black and white with confidential manner. To monitor budget management and favour all staff’s support and encouragements to all success in endeavor and for best practice to industry. He has worked well with people over the years and makes a good team member and feels that I am a good and fair manager who leads by setting an example. My main strengths are punctuality, patience, honesty, fairness and a determination to do well. He has a methodical, inquisitive mine and will always rise to the challenge set in my work.

The aim is to provide taxonomical, biological, ecological and distributional data for all species described from deep-water (especially in marine invertebrate) chemosynthetic ecosystems, as well as information on specific samples and collections. I managed collections of marine invertebrates analyzed by our institute for biomedical properties and maintained associated databases. The transfer of knowledge from science to industry, regulators and the public is not always easy, and it has been recognised that more efforts are needed to encourage dialogue and for cutting edge blue skies research to be used to drive policy, legislation and best practice. Fisheries stock assessment of (FiSAT software) finfishes and shellfishes and Biodiversity assessment of (Primer v 6 software) and taxonomy of crustaceans viz., prawn, shrimp, spiny lobster, squat lobster and crab.

Miklas Scholz, cand ing, BEng (equiv), PgC, MSc, PhD, CWEM, CEnv, CSci, CEng, FHEA, FIEMA, FCIWEM, FICE, Fellow of IWA, VINNOVA Fellow, Marie Curie Senior Fellow, Humboldt Fellow, is a Prof. in Water Resources Engineering at Lund University, Sweden. He holds the Chair in Civil Engineering at The University of Salford, UK. He is a Professor and the Head of the Civil Engineering Research Group in Salford. Miklas is a Distinguished Professor at Johannesburg University. Prof. Scholz has shown excellence evidenced by world-leading publications, postgraduate supervision and recognised research impact. He has published four books and 221 journal articles. Prof. Scholz has total citations of 5027 (above 3234 citations since 2013), resulting in an h-index of 35 and an i10-Index of 111 (18 August 2018). About 48% each of his research is in wastewater treatment and water resources management, respectively. The remaining 4% are in capillary processes and water treatment.

Civil Engineering; environmental engineering; environmental science; water resources engineering; agricultural water management; pollution control; wastewater treatment; decision support systems; treatment wetlands; integrated constructed wetlands; hydrology; sustainable flood retention basins; sustainable drainage systems; permeable pavement systems; ponds; capillary suction time.