ICAR-NBAIR turns 30 on Oct 19

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru:

The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) - National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources (NBAIR), Bengaluru will be celebrating its 30th foundation day on October 19 at its Yelahanka farm campus with several new initiatives.

Dr TR Sharma, Deputy Director General (Crop Science), ICAR, New Delhi will be the chief guest and Dr SC Dubey, Assistant Director General (PP&BS), ICAR, New Delhi will be the guest of honour during the occasion. The stakeholder including farmers and startups will be felicitated on the occasion.

More than 200 participants including former directors of the institute and scientists will be present. This organisation has played remarkable role in biointensive management of whitegrubs, maize fall armyworm, pod borers, sucking pests, papaya mealybug etc.

According to Dr Satya Nand Sushil, Director, ICARNBAIR, the Institute has recently imported Anagyrus lopezi, a parasitoid wasp, for the biological control of the invasive cassava mealybug on cassava. The Institute has come up with several other new technological innovations