BCPC PREvIEW 2007
Welcome
With the BCPC hosting the XVI International Plant Protection Congress, This breadth of coverage means that
the key theme of this year’s congress is crop protection. However, this this year’s congress is much larger
is crop protection in the widest sense, embracing not just new research than before. Recent BCPC Congresses
into how to control pathogens, weeds and insects, but also looking have run for two and a half days
at alternative technologies and the sciences and regulatory issues and had, typically, three or maybe
surrounding crop protection practice. four concurrent sessions. This year
we are running for three and a half
The congress will look at all new developments and issues surrounding
days, sometimes with five concurrent
the protection of crop plants from attack by pathogens, weeds
sessions. There are 46 platform
and insects. Of necessity, this includes looking at the progress in
sessions, plus extensive supporting
conventional crop protection – that based on synthetic chemicals – but
poster presentations, excluding the opening and closing ceremonies.
also presenting updates on organic farming, IPM and the increasingly
With so much choice there will certainly be something for everyone.
research-rich area of biocontrol. These are all components of what
we can term the scientific platform sessions; other sessions in this I hope that delegates will discuss what they have heard or seen over
category will cover mycotoxins, arable and horticultural crop protection lunch, dinner or with colleagues when they get home. By attending
(including progress in genetic manipulation), crop protection in the the science sessions, I trust we can impart new factual knowledge and
tropics and sub-tropics and nematodes and viruses. stimulate delegates’ thought processes to new research topics and
further scientific advances. By attending other sessions, I hope we can
But the demands being placed on crop protection are evolving. So
help them appreciate all the issues surrounding crop protection so that
there are also sessions devoted to biofuel crops, biopharmaceuticals
they obtain a global perspective of its aims and limitations, not just
and bioterrorism. In addition, we are going beyond the science to look
their own specialisation. People need to appreciate the science, that
at issues connected with the use of science in the modern world and
is clear, but they must also appreciate that such science needs to be
the ethical concerns generated. These will be discussed from different
used responsibly and that the requirements for science and the effects
perspectives and may offer different opinions from sessions that look
that its use can have on societies will differ according to the society
more at the practical, pragmatic use of crop protection.
concerned.
If, however, I was asked to select a key session, my choice would
I guess, above all, I want to stimulate delegates to “think” about what
be the debate on whether Rachel Carson would have felt the need
they have heard.
to write Silent Spring today. We have an excellent set of speakers
organised to get the delegates ‘fired up’ and I hope we can have a Professor Phil Russell
stimulating discussion covering all points of view. Chairman of the programme committee
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