Preface

The 2 nd International Conference on Agriculture and Rural Development (The 2 nd ICARD) The 2 nd International Conference on Agriculture and Rural Development (The 2 nd ICARD) had a theme “The Challenges of Sustainable Agriculture in the New Normal Era”. The conference was still held during the pandemic of covid-19 due to the great enthusiasm to have an event discussing the covid-19 impacts on agriculture, food, and rural livelihood. The travel restriction was also the reason to carry out the conference via online platform. Thus, it proceeded as the original agenda. The 2 nd ICARD was held on 16 November 2020 and organized by the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa (Untirta), Indonesia. It also became the framework of collaboration among the Faculty of Agriculture Untirta, Kazan National Research Technological University-Rusia, Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources-Iran and Universiti Teknologi MARA-Malaysia. The main sponsors of this conference were the Ministry of Education and Culture, and Indonesia agronomist association (PERAGI). The 2 nd ICARD was managed properly with virtual meeting and arranged into two sessions; they were oral presentations from keynote speakers as a plenary session and scholar presenters as a parallel session. In the first session, the respective keynote speaker was each allocated 40 minutes to hold the speech consist of 30 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion (Q and A). Four keynote speakers contributed to the plenary session. Assist. Prof. Dr. Yudi L.A. Salampessy from Untirta was talking about Mining and Biodiversity Comics Publishing to the Elementary School Students around Mine Areas. Also, our beloved keynote speaker Assoc. Prof. Dr. Saed Gorgin, from Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Iran, was presenting his study on the Strategy of Shelf-Life Extension to Keep the Quality of Conical Lift net Catch for Sustainability in New Normal Era. Furthermore, the third keynote speaker from Malaysia, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Asmah Awal (Universiti Teknologi MARA) was giving a great valuable presentation about Sugar Palm (Arenga pinnata Wurmb Merr.): A Review on Plant Tissue Culture Techniques for Effective Breeding. Moreover, our last keynote speaker Assoc. Prof. Elena Nikitina, Ph.D from Kazan National Research Technological University, Rusia, shared her study about Potato Starch as a Component Increasing the Antioxidant Potential of Yogurt. In the second session, the scholar presenters whose had submitted the selected paper were conferred 15 minutes including Q and A to speech the presentation one by one. They had divided into different rooms based on their scope of study. List of Organizing Committee, Scientific Committee are available in this pdf.