Beijing (TDI): Pakistani and Chinese academic achievements in resistant rootstocks for economic forests and grafted and fodder plants were exchanged at 4th China-Pakistan Tropical Arid Non-Wood Forest Science & Technology Exchange Conference.
Over five hundred professionals from Pakistan and China attended the conference simultaneously in Zhengzhou and Gwadar.
Starting from 2021, in the Belt and Road Engineering Research Center for Tropical Arid Non-wood Forest, professionals from the Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Indus University, University of Karachi, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Chinese Society of Forestry, China Overseas Ports Holding Company Limited and Yulin Holding Company Limited, etc. are working together on improved variety seedling propagation, germplasm resource collection, new variety breeding cultivation, demonstration of drought-tolerant and infertile-tolerant economic plants, and technical training.
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Backed by the center, a tissue culture laboratory and a seedling nursery have been built in Gwadar, integrating China’s modern economic forestry technology with Pakistan’s local conditions.
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At the conference, researchers from both countries shared their latest findings on different topics, including grafting and cutting propagation of improved varieties of Eucommia ulmoides, the potential for transforming timber and non-timber forest products in arid regions of Pakistan with a particular focus on the propagation of medicinal and oilseed plants, effective heterologous biosynthesis of plant natural products, and a digital intelligent precision water and fertilizer control system for chestnut.
