The opening ceremony of the Second International Molecular Plant Protection Congress (IMPPC2023) organized in Türkiye’s northwestern Bursa province at Hektaş Agricultural Innovation, Training and Experience Center befell Tuesday.
The occasion, organized by Ankara University, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, and Hektaş Ticaret A.Ş., will run from May 15 to May 18. It will characteristic 81 famend scientists from 20 nations who will talk about the way forward for sustainable agriculture.
The opening speech of IMPPC2023 was given by M. Levent Ortakçıer, the president and chairperson of the board of Hektaş, an organization inside the Oyak Group. Professor Craig Mello from the University of Massachusetts, a Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of RNA interference (RNAi) delivered the opening lecture on the congress.
Meanwhile, Professor Umut Toprak, a lecturer from Ankara University’s Faculty of Agriculture Department of Plant Protection, chaired the organizing committee of the congress. In his speech throughout the occasion’s opening ceremony in Bursa’s Orhangazi district, he highlighted the shift in plant safety methods from classical approaches to revolutionary, sustainable and environmentally pleasant molecular methods. He additionally emphasised the significance of the scientific data shared throughout the congress as a helpful useful resource for the literature.
In his opening speech, Ortakçıer acknowledged that based on the newest agricultural outlook report printed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), it’s predicted that meals consumption will enhance by 1.4% within the subsequent 10 years because of inhabitants development, whereas meals manufacturing will likely be on the degree of 1.1%.
“The world population is expected to reach 9.1 billion in 2050. If effective measures are not taken, the difference between food production and consumption in the world will grow to the depredation of humanity,” he stated.
Elaborating on the arable land areas, Ortakçıer additionally identified that 1.5 billion hectares of land used for cultivation are anticipated to drop to some 1.3 billion within the upcoming years, highlighting the necessity to develop scientific and sustainable options. “Sustainable projects are essential to protect nature … we must protect the quality of the land. Therefore, we should focus on biological studies. We will share the results of this congress with all our stakeholders,” he defined.
Nobel Prize-winning professor Melo stated he was honored and grateful for attending such an occasion in Türkiye. Thanking the hosts of the group and all of the individuals, he famous that there had been thrilling, important developments that might open new horizons in agriculture, particularly in plant safety.
Saying, “More efficient agriculture is possible,” Mello emphasised that the International Molecular Plant Protection Congress is without doubt one of the most essential platforms to introduce these developments to agricultural stakeholders. Expressing that the individuals have to expertise HEKTAŞ’s Agricultural Innovation, Training and Experience Center (F.A.R.M.), Mello added that he wholeheartedly believes that the middle will change into one of many world’s main establishments in agricultural applied sciences.
Professor Toprak, moreover in his interview with Ihlas News Agency (IHA), touched on the idea of agriculture of the long run, stating that “sustainable agriculture,” based mostly on the elemental precept “Leave it as you found it,” is a primary idea within the current day. Explaining that we’re confronted with issues equivalent to dangerous bugs and illnesses, which particularly prohibit plant manufacturing and result in the utilization of assorted chemical substances and pesticides to fight them, Toprak highlighted that new plant safety methods should be carried out to extend folks’s consciousness about environmental well being and requirement for secure meals.
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