Preface

Abstract

First and foremost, it is our great pleasure to welcome all of our distinguished forum guest and invited speakers, presenters, and participants of the 4th International Conference on Agriculture and Life Sciences 2020 (ICALS 2020). The world are now facing the COVID-19 pandemic that threatens human health and disrupting other aspects of human life. A new life order that called as “New Normal” has been introduced to the public to limit COVID-19 infection during the day life activities. One important things to do during new normal is the implementation of healthy lifestyle that can be achieved by the consumption of healthy and nutritious food. The industrial crops are thought to have an important role in the provision of healthy food or health supplements. Based on this issue, the ICALS 2020 was designed as a place to facilitate the exchange ideas on the use of industrial plants to support public health with the main theme “Retouching Strategy for Exploring Potency of Industrial Crops for Health in Adapting to the New Normal Era”.The ICALS 2020 was held on 6-8 October 2020 in Faculty of Agriculture University of Jember, Indonesia. This conference is co-organized by Faculty of Agriculture University of Jember, Graduate Program University of Jember, Implementation Programs Unit of Islamic Development Bank University of Jember, and Center of Excellence on Crop Industrial Biotechnology (PUI-PT-BioTIn). However, due to the prohibition by Indonesian government to organize activities that attract many participants during COVID-19 pandemic, the all activities of ICALS 2020 must be held in the virtual format instead to be postponed.The plenary session of conferences had presented two keynote speakers from the University of Jember and from the Ministry of Agriculture, Republic of Indonesia with 40 minutes for lecture for each. The guest and invited speakers from South Korea, Japan, Belgium, Germany, and Indonesia have been participated in this conference to share their knowledge and expertise on 30 minutes of presentation. The ICALS 2020 was remotely attended by 1262 participants from academician, researchers, students, farmers, private business, and governments from total 8 countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Australia, Japan, Belgium, Germany, South Korea) and 13 provinces in Indonesia (East Java, Central Java, Jogjakarta, West Java, South Sumatra, North Sumatra, West Sumatra, South Sulawesi, South East Sulawesi, North Sulawesi, Bali, West Nusa Tenggara, and Papua). Among this number, 160 participants disseminated their scientific result related to this conference topic. This virtual conference was successfully delivered using Zoom application and discussion sessions were conducted by means of the presenters answering questions that were raised through the chat menu.List of Comittees are available in this pdf.