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seminars on important topics, and conducted workshops and review meetings of research teams/projects. Besides this, he has helped in upgrading the infrastructure facilities in the Department of Entomology. Considering his outstanding research contributions in agricultural research in general and entomology in particular, Prof. Butter was honored with the 'Hexamar Award' given by the Indian Society for Cotton Improvement, in Mumbai, 1992, the 'Punjab Sarkar Parman Patra, 2002' by the state government of Punjab, and 'The Lifetime Achievement Award' by the Cotton Research and Development Association of India in 2018. Dr. Butter has also visited the erstwhile USSR as a member of a two man delegation to study integrated pest and disease management in cotton from 4th-24th July 1987.

A.K. Dhawan was the former Additional Director of Research and Head Department of Entomology at Punjab Agricultural University Ludhiana. After obtaining his postgraduate and doctorate degrees from PAU, joined the same Institute as an Assistant Entomologist in 1973 and continued to work on the management of cotton pests and made more than seventy-one recommendations to benefit farmers. He won the ICAR Team Award 2004, National Award for Transfer of Technology for Street Play and PAU Best Extension Worker Award 2008, and Award of Honor (2008). Dr. Dhawan also served as the State Coordinator for IPM (cotton) from 2004 to 2011 in Punjab. He has authored 15 books, 402 research papers, and 80 extension publications. He has been instrumental in developing a methodology to disseminate technology to farmers, which was adopted at the national level. He is a member of various scientific panels for different levels of the government and the private sector. Dr. Dhawan is Fellow, Indian Society for the Advancement of Insect Science (2007), Entomological Society of India (2005), Indian Ecological Society (1995), Society for Sustainable Cotton Production (2006). He is a Life member of eleven professional societies, and has held positions of president, vice president, general secretary, joint secretary, managing editor, editor, and associate editor and served as a Member, Executive Board with headquarter at Ludhiana. He has been instrumental in organizing ten international/national seminars/workshops/conferences to demonstrate the concept of IPM and transfer of technology.