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1. RECOMMENDATIONS Crop Science 1. Strengthening the existing institutions in upgrading the infrastructure to changing technologies acquisitions in the field of agriculture, horticulture, animal and fisheries sciences to solve issues of national importance. 2. Investment in agricultural research and education be raised to provide one percent of the GDP of agriculture and allied sector to facilitate the development of basic and strategic research. 3. A nation wide programme needs to be launched for the conservation of plant, animal, fish and micro-organism resources in the country. 4. Science and Technology are the drivers of change in farm operations and output. New technologies which can help to enhance productivity per units of land and water are needed for overcoming the prevailing technology fatigue. Frontier technologies like biotechnology, information and communication technology, renewable energy technologies and nanotechnology provide uncommon opportunities for launching an ever-green revolution capable of improving productivity in perpetuity without ecological harm. In field of genetic enhancement, 10 premier institutions should be identified where breeding of specific crops should be carried out by integrating the tools of both conventional and molecular methods of plant breeding. Expedite marker assisted transfer of multiple traits into regional varieties and hybrids should be expedited. Both molecule markers and transgenic technologies need to be given equal and high importance. 5. The seed replacement in varieties should reach 40% and in hybrids touch 80% which will not only make demands on seed producing agencies but will also largely induce private entrepreneurs to invest in seed production. An orientation of public sector research in “hybrid development with commercial viability” has to be reintroduced on a mission mode at least in crops like Pigeonpea, soybean, wheat and mustard on priority. Good quality seed and disease free p