22nd Asian Pacific Weed Science Conference 

OF

 ASIAN-PACIFIC WEED SCIENCE SOCIETY

VENUE:
G.C. University, Lahore, Pakistan      

THEME:

Judicious Weed Management- Road To Sustainability

OCTOBER 19-23, 2009

INTRODUCTION

Agriculture faces unprecedented environmental vagaries and as such Weed Scientists are confronted with innumerable challenges. Thus, vegetation managers are facing new problems due to changing behaviour of weeds, which has invited the human attention to mould their attitudes into a manageable form. Bio-diversity and conservation advocated by ethno-botanists and dominance of a single species (crop) as desired by the weed managers are the diverging views of the two schools of thought. Convergence of the two ideas has however, been conceptualized to be the recommended modus operandi for optimizing the dynamic behavior of weeds in the agro-ecosystems, without affecting the biodiversity and sustainability. 

BACKGROUND

Weed Science Society of Pakistan was established in 1987 with its head office at National Agriculture Research Center (NARC), Islamabad. It has been publishing an official Journal, The Pakistan Journal of Weed Science Research, since its inception. With the creation of Weed Science Department in NWFP Agricultural University Peshawar, the first in the country, the head office of the Society as well as its Journal was shifted here. The Society in the recent past has organized three conferences. Lahore (pop., 1998: 5,143,495), capital of Punjab province. The second largest city of Pakistan, it lies in the upper Indus plain on the Ravi River.  It was the capital of the Ghaznavid dynasty in the 12th century and was captured by the Mughal Babur’s troops in 1524; it was later under Akbar and Jahangir. Ruled by Sikhs in the early 19th century, it passed to the British in 1849. After Indian independence, Lahore became part of Pakistan in 1947. It is the site of the mosque of Wazir Khan (1634); a mosque built by Aurangzeb; and the Shalimar gardens, laid out in 1641. It is the seat of Pakistan's oldest educational institution, the University of the Punjab (founded 1882). The Government College presently a University, was a constituent college since inception of the Punjab University.

Topics to be covered

Weed biology, weed ecology and systematics

Integrated weed management

Weed physiology

Chemical weed control

Biological weed control

Parasitic weeds

Herbicide resistance 

Weed seed dormancy and soil seed banks

Species shift and herbicides

Invasive weeds and agro-biodiversity

Aquatic weed management

Allelopathy

GMO’s

Weed management in agronomic and horticultural crops

Weed management in turfs and forests

Organizing Committee

Prof. Dr. Khalid Aftab, Vice Chancellor, Government College University, Lahore.

Prof. Dr. Khan Bahadar Marwat, President APWSS

Prof. Dr. Gul Hassan, General Secretary APWSS

Prof. Dr. A.U.Khan, Dean Faculty of Sciences, GCU, Lahore

Prof. Dr. Zaheer-ud-Din, Chairman Department of Botany, GCU, Lahore

Prof. Dr. Rukhsana Bajwa, Chairman Department of Mycology and Plant Pathology, University of the Punjab, Lahore

Prof. Dr. Zahid Ata Cheema, Professor of Agronomy, University of Agriculture, Faisal Abad

Ms.Shaihda Khalid, Vice President WSSP Federal

Dr. Muhammad Sarwar Cheema Vice President WSSP Punjab

Dr. Mushtaq Kazmi, Vice President WSSP AJK.

Mr. Muhammad Ashraf Arain, Vice President WSSP Sindh

Prof. Dr. Muhammad Qasim Khan, Dean Faculty of Agriculture, Gomal University, D. I. Khan

Prof. Dr. Rasool Bakhsh Tareen, Chairman, Department of Botany, University of Balochistan, Quetta, Pakistan

Ptof. Dr. Surraya Khatoon, Chairperson, Department of botany, University of Karachi, 75270-Karachi, Pakistan

Prof. Dr. Mir Ajab Khan, Chairman, Department of Plant Biology, Qaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Dr. Muhammad Azim Khan, Department of Weed Science, NWFP Agricultural University, Peshawar.

Prof. Dr. Raza Bhatti, Department of Botany, University of Khairpur, Sindh.

Prof. Manzoor A. Malik, Department of Botany, Government Dyal Singh College, Lahore.

Prof. Dr. Farrukh Hussain, Department of Botany, University of Peshawar

Dr. Arshad Javaid, Department of Mycology and Plant Pathology, University of the Punjab, Lahore

Contact

Prof. Dr. Gul Hassan

General Secretary APWSS

Department of Weed Science

NWFP Agricultural University,

Peshawar 25130, Pakistan

Phone # 92-91-9218206/9216542

E-mail: secretarywssp@yahoo.com

Other Contacts                                                  

Prof. Dr. Khan Bahadar Marwat

President APWSS

Phone # 92-91-9216550, Fax # 92-91-9216520

E-mail:  apwss@aup.edu.pk

Dr. M. Azim Khan

Phone # 92-91-9216572-9  Ext. 3114

E-mail: ahmadzaipk@yahoo.com

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The official language of the conference will be English. For further details regarding trips, accommodations, sessions etc. please refer to the contacts.

Registration Fees

Early registeration:                   US $ 300/-

Late registeration:                    US $ 350/-

Students:                                    US $ 150/-

Excursion

Tours will be arranged to various historic sites around Lahore, e.g. Wahga border (Indo-Pak), Changa Manga, Shalimar gardens, Jinnah garden (Lawrence garden), Badshahi Masjid,  Lal Qilla of the Moghal era and various sites of interest for Budists, Sikhs and Hindu interests. Special tour will be arranged on interests of participants to Islamabad, Taxala and Himalaya.