Preface

Abstract

We were honored and delighted to welcome all participants to the 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Agriculture for Rural Development 2020 which was held virtually due to the pandemic of COVID-19. The main theme of the conference was “Strengthening Sustainable Agriculture through Development of Local Products and Innovative Technologies and Practices”. This conference was organized by the Faculty of Agriculture, Jenderal Soedirman University and was a part of the event series to celebrate the 58th Anniversary of the Faculty of Agriculture, Jenderal Soedirman University.This one-day seminar consisted of plenary and parallel sessions. In the plenary session there were three invited speakers who delivered such important materials so that all of us can deepen our knowledge about research related to sustainable agriculture. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all invited speakers, Prof. Ting-ting Wu, Ph.D. from National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan, Prof. Tatsuo Sato, Ph.D. from Ibaraki University, Japan, and Suprayogi, Ph.D. from Jenderal Soedirman University, Indonesia, who had accepted our invitation. We accepted 205 abstracts from researchers who presented their most recent research in the parallel session. Participants were mostly from Indonesia and also from abroad, i.e. Japan, Vietnam, Sudan, Oman, Iraq, and New Zealand.We realize that the success of the conference depends ultimately on many people who had worked with us in planning and organizing both the technical program and supporting social arrangements. We would like to thank all committee members who had worked extremely hard for the details of important aspects of the conference programs.Once again thank you for your participation in this conference and we do hope we can meet again in the forthcoming 3rd ICSARD. Thank you.Susanto B. Sulistyo, Ph.D.Chairman of the 2nd ICSARD 2020