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Keywords: major diseases and insects of rice, sources of resistance, improving the sources of resistance, diseases (blast Pyricularia oryzae, resistance to bacterial blight Xanthomonas orzae, international uniform blast nurseries, resistance to bacterial leaf streak Xanthomonas translucens, resistance to tungro virus, resistance to grassy stunt virus, resistance to sheath blight Thanatephorus cucumeris,), (developing germ plasm with multiple resistance, rice breeding methods, inheritance of resistance, insect pests (stem borers Chilo suppressalis, Scirpophaga incertulas, brown planthopper Nilaparvata lugens, green leafhopper Nephotettix virescens, whitebacked planthopper Sogatella furcifera, zigzag leafhopper Recilia dorsalis, gall midge Orseolia oryzae), some brown planthopper resistant varieties, stability of resistance, present and future strategy of breeding