Preface

Abstract

The 2nd International Conference on Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture in the Tropic (IC-FSSAT 2019) was held in Makassar, Indonesia on September 2 2019. As in previous conference, IC-FSSAT 2019 is dedicated to address issues related to food security and sustainable agriculture in the Tropics. This event was hosted by Faculty of Agriculture and Publication Management Centre (PMC), Universitas Hasanuddin.The major goal and feature of the conference was to promote knowledge, science, and technology as well as to address issues in food security and sustainable agriculture in the tropics, by bringing together researchers, scientists, practitioners and scholars in the respected fields. While food security and sustainable agriculture issues had been discussed broadly in several conferences, our conference emphasizes on the tropical agriculture. A total of 7 Keynote/Invited Speakers from Australia, Germany, Taiwan, Czechoslovakia, Japan and Indonesia delivered an insight into the state of art of the challenges in food security and sustainable agriculture in the tropics and any possibilities that could arise in developing integrated problem solving and collaboration to create better world.This proceedings present selected papers submitted to the conference by academics and researches from universities and research institutes. All papers were subjected to rigorous peer-reviews by conference committee members and international reviewers to ensure their compliance to meet the required standard for qualified scientific publication. This volume presents recent researches in the field of Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture in the Tropic covering various related areas of Crop Production and Environment, Plant Breeding and Biotechnology, Biodiversity and Climate Change, Integrated Pest and Disease Management, Genetically Modified Foods, Food Safety, and Product Development, Geospatial Agriculture, Agricultural Engineering and Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development.