More Than a Conference Pass — Here's Everything ORP-5 Actually Gives You

5th International Conference on Organic & Natural Rice Production Systems · New Delhi · September 21–25, 2026

🔬 9 Conference Themes · 🏅 50+ National Awards · 📅 5 Days of Programming · 🌍 Global Delegation

Most people register for a conference expecting to sit in a room, listen to talks, and go home with a tote bag. ORP-5 is structured to give you considerably more than that. Whether you're a first-year master's student or a seasoned scientist, the returns on your registration — when you engage fully — can be career-defining.

What's Included in Your Registration

Your ORP-5 registration is not just a seat in an auditorium. Here is exactly what you get, depending on how you attend.

Physical Delegates receive full participation in all scientific and technical sessions, the official conference proceedings in both print and digital format, the welcome reception, and lunches and refreshments across all five conference days. It is a complete, immersive experience designed to maximise what you take home.

Virtual Delegates receive full digital access passes to all conference day events — streamed live and accessible from anywhere in the world. This is particularly powerful for international participants, early-career researchers, and anyone who cannot travel but wants to be part of the global conversation.

Here is a full breakdown of what is included for all participants:

🔬 Access to All Scientific & Technical Sessions

Five full days of plenary lectures from world-renowned experts, oral and poster presentations, and a concluding valedictory session — all pushing the frontier of organic and natural rice science across nine conference themes.

📖 Conference Proceedings

A printed and digital copy of the full conference souvenir and extended abstract book — a lasting academic reference you can cite and share long after the conference ends.

🤝 Networking Events

The welcome reception and informal networking moments across five days bring you face to face with scientists, farmers, policymakers, and industry leaders from across the globe.

🌾 Farmer & Scientist Interactions

A dedicated field visit on September 24 to IIFSR and working farmers' fields — a rare and direct window into real-world organic rice practice that most conferences simply do not offer.

🚌 Closing Field Trip (September 25)

A closing excursion that takes the science out of the auditorium and into the landscape it is meant to serve — a fitting end to five days of learning.

"ORP-5 will facilitate knowledge exchange through plenary sessions, technical sessions, poster presentations, and networking, bringing together scientists, farmers, policymakers, students, and industry stakeholders to strengthen global collaboration for sustainable rice-based agri-food systems."

— ORP-5 Official Conference Statement

Your Research, Published Internationally

Here is the benefit most participants underestimate: ORP-5 is not just a conference — it is a publication pathway. Selected work presented at ORP-5 goes directly into peer-reviewed international journals. For researchers building their academic profile, this is one of the most tangible returns on your registration.

📄 Extended Abstract — Plant Science Today Souvenir

All accepted abstracts are published in the ORP-5 Extended Abstract Souvenir, giving your research an immediately citable conference reference from the moment the proceedings are released.

🏅 Full Paper — Plant Science Today Special Issue

Selected full-length papers will be published in a dedicated special issue of Plant Science Today (Horizon e-Publishing Group) — an indexed, peer-reviewed journal with international readership. Article Processing Charge: ₹16,000.

For early-career researchers building their publication record, this pathway — from conference presentation to journal publication — is among the most concrete reasons to submit your best work to ORP-5.

Awards — Recognition That Goes Beyond a Certificate

One of the most remarkable aspects of ORP-5 is the breadth of its awards programme. The conference will confer the AIASA National Awards 2024 & 2025 — a sweeping recognition spanning students, researchers, teachers, farmers, and institutions. These are not participation trophies. They are nationally prestigious honours with genuine career impact.

Over 50 awards will be presented across these categories:

• AIASA National Award for Outstanding Leadership in Agriculture — 2 Awards (2024 & 2025)
• Lifetime Achievement Award — 2 Awards (2024 & 2025)
• Best Vice-Chancellor Award — 2 Awards (2024 & 2025)
• Dr M.S. Swaminathan Award for Outstanding Master's Research in Agricultural & Allied Sciences — 8 Awards
• Dr M.S. Swaminathan Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research in Agricultural & Allied Sciences — 8 Awards
• Harit Ratna Awards — 8 Awards (2024 & 2025)
• Student of the Year Award — Zone-wise — 14 Awards (2024 & 2025)
• AIASA Gold Medal — Zone-wise — 14 Awards (2024 & 2025)
• Young Scientist Award — 8 Awards (2024 & 2025)
• Best Teacher Award — 2 Awards (2024 & 2025)
• Institution of Excellence Awards — 5 Awards
• Best Poster, Oral, and Video Presentation Award — in each conference theme

Whether you are a student presenting for the first time or a senior scientist with decades of work behind you, there is a category of recognition designed for you.

The Network You'll Walk Away With

Perhaps the most quietly powerful benefit of attending ORP-5 is who you will meet. The conference draws from a genuinely international scientific committee — researchers from Italy, Japan, France, Brazil, the USA, Indonesia, and India — alongside national agriculture officials, startup founders, certification bodies, and development agencies.

Here is who will be in the room (or on the call):

• 🔬 Scientists and researchers from agricultural universities worldwide
• 🌾 Farmers and Farmer-Producer Organisations (FPOs) working in organic and natural systems
• 🏛 Policymakers, government planners, and agriculture ministry officials
• 🏢 Agri-entrepreneurs, bio-input companies, and startup founders
• 🌍 International development agencies engaged in food security
• ✅ Certification bodies in sustainability and organic systems
• 🎓 UG, PG, and doctoral students at the beginning of their careers

For a doctoral student, a conversation at the poster session could become a research collaboration that shapes your dissertation. For a mid-career scientist, it might be the industry partnership your work has been waiting for. For a farmer, it could mean the adoption of a solution that someone in another country has already cracked.

Is ORP-5 for You?

ORP-5 deliberately casts a wide net. If any of the following describes you, your participation will be genuinely worthwhile:

• 🎓 UG / PG Students looking for their first major conference experience
• 🔬 PhD Scholars seeking publications, awards, and peer feedback
• 👩‍🔬 Post-doctoral Researchers building international collaborations
• 🌾 Organic and natural farmers seeking new knowledge and recognition
• 🏛 Policymakers shaping the future of sustainable agriculture
• 🏢 Agri-entrepreneurs looking for science-backed partnerships
• 📊 Extension professionals bridging research and farmer communities
• 🌍 International delegates contributing to a global conversation
• 🏫 Faculty members seeking co-publication and collaboration opportunities
• ✅ Certification bodies and standards organisations in organic systems

Make the Most of ORP-5 — Register Before August 1, 2026

The benefits described in this article are available to every registered participant — but only if you show up. Seats are limited, government guest house slots fill within weeks, and the abstract deadline passes on June 30, 2026.

The question is not whether ORP-5 is worth attending. The question is: what will you do with five days alongside the world's brightest minds in sustainable rice production?

👉 Register Now at orp5ic.com/registration → | Deadline: August 1, 2026

📄 Submit Your Abstract → | Deadline: June 30, 2026

ORP-5 · 5th International Conference on Organic and Natural Rice Production Systems · NASC Complex, New Delhi, India · September 21–25, 2026 · www.orp5ic.com · info@orp5ic.com