Important Information
Protected cultivation is one of the most advanced, hi-tech, precise, progressive and entrepreneurial face of agriculture. The amount of knowledge, diversity, technicalities make it a field of unlimited opportunities. Greenhouse agriculture is apparently one door of such unlimited opportunities. Dr Naved Sabir, with his editorial effort, has for the first time converged knowledge, industry, institutions, farmers, academicians, policy makers, administrators, stakeholders on one platform. Though many of these stakeholders have discussed this area of horticulture with their own perspective but cumulative effect of this convergence has been documented for the very first time through this book. This compilation of information and unique pieces of knowledge into quite a pot pourri on one platform. Besides, the directory of stakeholders is quite useful for all the stakeholders. A very useful compilation of stakeholders in protected cultivation which will connect many such stakeholders who were hitherto unconnected.
Dr Naved Sabir was born in Sikandra Rao (Then in Dist. Aligarh), UP in 1964. He obtained his B.Sc., M.Sc. and M.Phil. from A.M.U., Aligarh and Ph.D. from Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi. Dr Sabir, joined ARS in 1989 and has been working mainly in horticultural IPM, Nematode Management, Good Agricultural Practices etc. Presently, he is a Principal Scientist at CPCT, IARI, New Delhi. He has additional training courses in Food Safety Management Systems as well as in GAP. During the last 15 years Dr Sabir has engaged himself in the area of protected cultivation and has worked in more than 5 Nat. and Int. projects developing several technologies and published material. He is a Faculty of PG School of the institute also. He is the author/editor of several books in the area of IPM, GAP and Protected Cultivation. He has published more than 35 research papers in Nat. and Int. Journals, including two books on protected floriculture for vocational courses of NCERT and more than 25 Technical Bulletins. He has been an editorial board member in several journals and annual reports. He is the Founder and Executive Member of Indian Society for Protected Cultivation and life member of many scientific societies and has organized/co-organized three national level seminars and brainstorming sessions. Dr Sabir was Country Representative on GlobalGAP to Philippines Development Agency in 2014. He has travelled widely across India and several nations in official and personal capacities. He has been a member in several committees at institutional and national level and is a tech. expert and member in DST-TIFAC GOI, NIPHM, BIS, GOI and National Horticultural Board (NHB), Min. of Agri., GoI. Dr Sabir, is very popular among farmers and has delivered hundreds of lectures across country. His passion for protected cultivation technology is the main driving force for this book with worthy support from co-authors. He can be contacted on nsabir29@gmail.com.
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