The Plant Health Association of India is holding an international conference on ‘Plant health management for food security (ICPHM 2012) here on Thursday.

Swapan Kumar Datta, Deputy Director-General (Crop Sciences) of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), and DDG (Horticulture) of ICAR, will address the conference.

The three-day conference will discuss on crop protection technologies to reduce damages to the crops and increase yields. “We will discuss options to deploy global position systems (GPS) to strengthening crop protection strategies,” K. S. Varaprasad, President of the association, said here on Wednesday.