Dr. Rita Singh Majumdar, presently working as Professor and Head, Department of Biotechnology, Sharda University, Greater Noida. She got her M.Sc & Ph.D in Plant Biotechnology from the University of Calcutta and B.Sc (H) from the Presidency College, Calcutta. She completed her Post Doctoral research work in Calcutta University as well as from the IIT, Delhi. She visited several Universities and Educational Institutions at France, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Thailand, etc. She had published several research papers and books under eminent National and International publishers. Dr. D. Prasad retired as Prof. and Head (Retd.), I.A.R.I., has more that 40 years of research and teaching experience in the field of nematology in particular and plant protection in general. He has published more than 246 research papers, 100 abstracts presented in symposia of national and international repute and 95 chapters in various books. Dr. Prasad is known for his research contributions in nematode management on groundnut and soybean and developed IPM nodule for root knot nematode on groundnut. He also worked on environmentally safe pesticides, developed and tested two new molecules for control of nematodes and hence patented, and received HARDF Award 1994, fellow of Several Societies won many prestigious award of Societies and Agril. Universities. Dr. Prasad has written/edited books namely Environment Pollution - Air, Water, Land, Radiation, Solid Waste, Thermal, Soil Environment & Pesticides, Potential IPM Tactics, Ecofriendly Pest Suppression, Crop Pest and Disease Management, Advances in Plant Protection Sciences, Crop Protection: Management Strategies, Sustainable Pests Management, Insect Pest and Disease Management, Sustainable Crop Protection Strategies (2 volumes) and Crop Protection, Conservation and Diversity (2 volumes) during the past few years. He founded a Society of Plant Protection Sciences in 1992 which publishes six monthly Journal "Annals of Plant Protection Sciences"