1. Annual
Sustainable Development Conference, Organized by SDPI and Ministry
of Environment, Urban Affairs, Forestry and Wildlife, Govt. of
Pakistan, August 4-8, 1996. Presented two papers entitled
“Sustainable Cotton Production, Trade and Environment: Policy Issues
and Options for Pakistan” and “IPM for Evergreen Revolution”.
2.
Green Economics
Conference, Organized by SDPI and Heinrich-Boll Foundation,
September 12-14, 1995. Presented a paper entitled
"Biodiversity: its Conservation and Sustainable Use".
3.
Participated in
seminar on “National Drainage Program”, organized by WAPDA/Provincial
Irrigation Dept., Quetta, 1995.
4.
Participated in
seminar on “Privatization of Agricultural Services”, organized by
the World Bank and Lahore Univ. of Management, 1995.
5.
Regional
Workshop on Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Health and Safety,
organized by UNDP/UNIDO/RENPAP at Davao, Philippines, December 5-9,
1994. Presented a country paper on the subject.
6.
International
Workshop on Sustainable Management of the Desert Locust, held at
ICIPE, Nairobi, June 6-9, 1994. Presented a paper entitled
"Orientation of Desert Locust to Biophysical Cues".
7.
International
Workshop on Sustainable Management of the Desert Locust, held at
ICIPE, Nairobi, June 6-9, 1994. Presented a paper entitled
"Sex Pheromone in Solitarious Desert Locust".
8.
National Meeting
Entomological Society of America, held at Indianopolis, December
11-16, 1993. Presented a paper entitled "Sexual Behavior and
Communication in the Desert Locust, Schistocerca gregaria (Forskal)
(Orthoptera: Acrididae).
9.
National
Meeting, Entomological Society of America, held at Maryland,
December 6-9, 1992. Presented a poster paper entitled "Orientation
of Desert Locust, Schistocerca gregaria, to Reflectances from
different Colored surfaces".
10.
Twenty-third
ICIPE Annual Research Conference, held at ICIPE, Nairobi. Presented
a paper entitled "Orientation of Desert Locust, Schistocerca
gregaria, to Lights of Different Wavelengths".
11. Twenty-second ICIPE Annual Research Conference, held at ICIPE,
Nairobi. Presented a paper entitled "Chemical Ecology of the
Phase Dynamics of the Desert Locust".
12.
Twenty-first
ICIPE Annual Research Conference, held at ICIPE, Nairobi.
Presented a poster paper entitled "Color Perception in the Desert
Locust,
Schistocerca gregaria (Forsk.)".
13.
Symposium on
"Sustainable Farming Systems in 21st Century Asia", held at Bangkok,
November 19-22, 1990. Presented a poster paper entitled
"Tillage Practices and the Incidence of Rice Stem Borers".
14.
Second Working
Group Meeting and Workshop on Food Legumes and Coarse Grains,
organized by FAO/RAPPA at Chiang Mai, Thailand, from August 1 to 5,
1988. Presented country report entitled "Insect and Vertebrate
Pests of Food Legumes and Coarse Grains in Pakistan and their
Control".
15.
Eighteenth Rice
Farming Systems Working Group Meeting, held at NARC, Islamabad,
August 30 - September 4, 1987. Delivered a talk on "No-tillage
and its Impact on Insect Populations".
16.
National
Workshop on "Rice-based Farming System", held at NARC, Islamabad,
April 21-24, 1986. Presented a paper entitled "Scope of
Integrated Pest Control in Multiple Cropping System".
17.
National Seminar
on "Strategies of Rice Research and Production Development", held at
NARC, Islamabad, April 14-16, 1986. Presented a paper entitled
"Perspectives of Breeding Plants Resistant to Insects, with Special
Reference to Rice Pests".
18.
National
Meeting, Entomological Society of America, held at Hollywood,
Florida, December 9-13, 1985.
19.
Teleconference
on the Effects of Increases in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide,
Stillwater, OK, September 19, 1985. Sponsored by Sigma XI, the
Scientific Research Society, and the US Department of Energy.
20.
Wheat Day-1985.
Agronomy Research Station, OSU, Stillwater, OK, May 23, 1985.
Displayed Wheat Insects and Resistant Varieties Against Them.
21.
Sixty-first
Annual Meeting of the Central States (Kansas) Entomological Society,
held at Lincoln, Nebraska, April 20, 1985. Presented a paper
entitled "Morphometric Variation Within Greenbug Biotypes with Notes
on their Probable Evolutionary Pathway".
22.
Annual Banquet
of Sigma XI, the Scientific Research Society, OSU, Stillwater, OK,
April 19, 1985.
23.
National
Meeting, Entomological Society of America, held at San Antonio,
Texas, December 9-13, 1984. Presented a paper entitled
"Biological Variation Within Three Biotypes of Greenbug,
Schizaphis graminum
(Rondani), (Homoptera: Aphididae)".
24.
Thirty-second
Annual Meeting, Southwestern Branch, Entomological Society of
America, held at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, February 13-15,
1984. Presented a paper entitled "Variation in Fecundity and
Virulence in Greenbug Biotypes".
25.
National
Meeting, Entomological Society of America, held at Detroit,
Michigan, November 28 - December 2, 1983. Presented a paper
entitled "Resistance in Triticale to Greenbug, Schizaphis
graminum (Rondani), (Homoptera: Aphididae)".
26.
Thirty-first
Annual Meeting, Southwestern Branch, Entomological Society of
America, held at Corpus Christi, Texas, February 21-23, 1983.
Presented a Paper entitled "Host Selection in Apanteles flavipes
(Cameron), (Hymenoptera: Braconidae): Influence of Host and Host
Plant".
27.
Thirty-seventh
Annual Meeting, North Central Branch, Entomological Society of
America, Sioux Fall, South Dakota, March 23-25, 1982.
28.
First Pakistan
Congress of Zoology held at Islamabad, April 30 - May 1, 1980.
Presented a paper entitled "The Present Status of Biological Control
of Chilo partellus (Swinh.) (Lep.: Pyralidae) by Apanteles
flavipes (Cam.) (Hym.: Braconidae) in Pakistan".
29.
National
Agricultural Research Conference held at Islamabad, February 23-26,
1980. Presented a paper entitled "Studies on Potential
Biological Control Agents of Whiteflies in Pakistan".
30.
National Seminar
on Sugarcane. Organized by the University of Agriculture,
Faisalabad and sponsored by Pakistan Agricultural Research Council,
Islamabad, January 28, 1980. |