On behalf of the Indian Association for Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology (IAAVP) and Maharashtra Animal and Fishery Sciences University, Nagpur (MAFSU). It's our proud privilege to extend a delightful and cordial invitation to you for the 30^th episode of National Congress of Veterinary Parasitology (NCVP) and Annual symposium on “Fundamentals of Integrated Parasite Management and its Relevance in One Health” at College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (COVAS), Parbhani to be held during 14 -16 December, 2021.

Livestock husbandry plays an important role in Indian economy with a unique structure of predominant system of mixed farming. With gradual fragmentation of farm land over generations, mere crop based farming is seen unable to cater subsistence needs in the diversely spread rain fed agriculture. In this scenario, livestock sector with a tremendous potential of offering guaranteed income shall be critically revamped to fulfill the demands of food and livelihood. Yet, in spite of long standing efforts on increasing the productivity of livestock certain limitations do hamper the efforts; infectious diseases being one of them. Parasitic diseases have substantial impact on the livestock health and production contributing as a major impediment in achieving profitable enterprise. The parasite control strategies evolved from drug regime to integrated parasite management, diagnostics from microscopy to microarray, parasite studies from bionomics to phylogeny over time. This conference intends for congregation of scientists, academicians, researchers, Field Veterinarians (LDO), students, policy makers to participate in a brain storming on the challenging issues in the field of veterinary parasitology viz. drug resistance, parasite vaccine development, impact of climate change on parasitic diseases, parasitic zoonoses and one health, integrated parasite management etc. The conference will also deliberately focus on the novel and innovative areas such as omics, nano-technology, geo-climatic applications with reference to parasitic diseases of livestock, poultry, wildlife and their public health significance. We, on behalf of organizing team at MAFSU and the IAAVP, cordially invite all the stakeholders to participate in the conference at COVAS, Parbhani and contribute in growth of the knowledge base.