The Hindu Business Line : Global meet on food & health security

New Delhi, Sept 4 The Defence Institute of High Altitude Research (DIHAR) is hosting a five-day international conference on novel approaches for food and health security in high altitudes from September 6 to 10 in Leh to mark the golden jubilee of the Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO).

A unique high altitude research laboratory situated at 3,500 m in Ladakh, DIHAR is an outfit of DRDO which is mandated to look into the need of men behind the weapon and is a specialised agency in high altitude flinty agro-animal technologies.

According to the organisers of the global conference, the efforts made by DIHAR has fostered affiliations between army and civil population and vastly improved the economic lot of the poor farmers of Ladakh and this remains a successful compact among the stakeholders of DRDO, army and local farmers.

The theme of the four-day conference is “enhancing performance and sustainable development in high altitudes” and areas for deliberations include sustainable agriculture and animal production systems, ethno botany and bio prospecting of medicinal plants, molecular and biotechnological approaches for crop and animal improvement and conservation.

Other topics cover zero energy post-harvest management of fruits and vegetables, agriculture resource management in high altitudes and biomedical research to improve human health.

To be inaugurated by the Minister of State for Defence, Mr Pallam Raju, the lead speakers in the conference include Dr B. Bhattacharjee, Member, NDMA; Dr Anil Gupta IIM, Ahmedabad; Dr A.S. Bawa (DFRL, Mysore); Dr Vijay Raghavan (DRDE, Gwalior); Dr Thomas Terrill (FUSV, USA); Dr Agnes Rimando (USDA, US); Dr K.R. Koundali, IARI, Delhi; and Dr Yoshinori Kanayama (Japan).

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