Preface

Abstract

The International Conference on Sustainable Cereals and Crops Production Systems in the Tropics (ICFST) was held on 23-25 September 2019 in Makassar, Indonesia. The Conference was organized by Indonesian Agency for Agricultural Research and Development (IAARD)-Ministry of Agriculture of Indonesia, collaborated with International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education of Indonesia.The theme of the conference is “Sustainable Agricultural Resources Management to Support Food Security and Industry 4.0” with the sub themes of Breeding and Biotechnology, Crop Production Systems, Pest and Disease Management, Post Harvest, Socio-Economy and Community Development. The conference was conducted in three days, two days of scientific session and one day of field visit to the Indonesian Cereals Research Institute. The conference facilitate the research community focusing in food crops and provide platform for scientists to meet and interact with each other to share their knowledge and their research results along with the obstacles and challenges they faced in their development, achievement as well as experiences through the presentation of papers and discussion. This international conference is also an event to establish cooperation in the development of food crops research in the future as well as enhancing the knowledge of environmental protection with the current agricultural technologies.We would like to convey our deepest gratitude to the Minister of Agriculture of Indonesia, Keynote Speakers: Dr B.M. Prasanna (Director of CIMMYT’s Global Maize Program & the CGIAR Research Program), Prof. Dr Machito Mihara (Tokyo Agricultural University), Thomas E. Anderson, PhD (US Department of Agriculture), Prof Roger Shivas (University of Southern Queensland), Prof Bunyamin Tar’an (University of Saskatchewan Canada), sponsors, organizing committee and also to all participants.We also would like to express our deepest gratitude to the Indonesian Agency for Agricultural Research and Development (IAARD) conducted such conference. We are looking forward to the 2nd ICFST that will be held on September 2020 in Bali Island . We expect that these future ICFST conference will be as stimulating as this most recent one was, as indicated by the contributions presented in this proceedings volume.List of Committees Steering Committee (SC) and conference photographs are available in this PDF.