International Year of Plant Health 2020
S. Routray*
Dept. of Agricultural Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Sri Sri University, Cuttack, Odisha (754 006), India
DOI: NIL
Keywords: Climate change, IASs, Plant health, United nations
Abstract
Under the current scenario, healthy plants are of primary concern in the world. Maintaining proper plant health is essential surpassing various challenges like changing climatic conditions, various biotic and abiotic stresses and negative impacts of various pollutants. UNs have declared 2020 as the international year of plant health with various objectives such as, massive awareness among public on global, regional and national levels, protection of the environment and facilitation of economic and trade development, promotion and strengthening of global, regional and national plant health efforts in light of increasing trade and increasing global, regional and national resources for plant health policies.
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