ASC

Themes

No		Theme/Sub Theme	Convener
1	Theme	Ensuring Food & Nutritional Security: Production, consumption and value addition	Dr M S Bamji
1	Sub Theme	Problem of Malnutrition in India Farm and Food-based Strategies for Combating Hidden Hunger Resource Efficient, Environment Friendly Production of Nutrient-dense Farm Foods in India
2	Theme	Climate Action for Sustainable agri-food Systems	Dr P K Aggarwal
3	Theme	Frontier Science and emerging genetic technologies: Genome Breeding, Gene Editing	Prof. K C Bansal
3	Sub Theme	Advances in Genomics and CRISPR-Cas Systems for Crop Improvement Application of CRISPR-Cas Systems for Crop Improvement and Sustainable Development Genome Editing: IPR Policy for Product Development and Socio-economic Considerations
4	Theme	Livestock-based Transformation of Food Systems	Dr K M Bujarbaruah
4	Sub Theme	Towards livestock production sector transformation Livestock Products, Health and Support Sciences
5	Theme	Horticulture-based Transformation of Food Systems	Dr S.K. Singh
5	Sub Theme	Fruit and Plantation Crops Vegetable and Tuber Crops Spices, Ornamental & Medicinal Plants Nutraceuticals and Value Addition
6	Theme	Aquaculture and Fisheries-based Transformation of Food Systems	Dr J K Jena
6	Sub Theme	Aquaculture Systems & Fisheries Genetics, Health & Nutrition Processing, Value Addition, Quality Control & Social Sciences
7	Theme	Nature-based Solutions for Sustainable Agri-food Systems	Dr Anil K Singh
7	Sub Theme	Water Harvesting and Enhancing Water Productivity Soil Health and its Restoration Ensuring Nutritional Security through Natural Resource Management
8	Theme	Next Generation Technologies: Digital agriculture, precision farming and AI-based systems	Dr Rajender Parsad
8	Sub Theme	Digital Agriculture Artificial Intelligence based Systems
9	Theme	Policies and Institutions for Transforming Agri-food Systems	Dr P K Joshi
9	Sub Theme	Food System Transformation: Role of Policies and Institutions Diet Diversification and Food System Transformation Agri-food system transformation towards high-value commodities
10	Theme	International Partnership for Research, education and Development	Prof. Rajeev K Varshney

Each session will have one Lead speaker, three invited session speakers and one Young Scientist/Research Scholar speaker who will be selected from the abstracts for that session. About 160 speakers are expected to deliver lectures in different thematic areas.