Tree plantation campaign inaugurated

HYDERABAD: The Vice Chancellor Sindh Agriculture University Tando Jam, Dr. Abdul Qadir Mughal, has underlined the need for collective efforts to overcome losses to agriculture sector caused by heavy rainfalls of September 2011.

Inaugurating the tree plantation campaign at the workshop of Engineering Faculty here on Saturday, he maintained that Sindh was already under threat of `super floods' as a result of elimination of forests, the heavy rainfalls had devastated the agriculture sector posing great threats to economy, agriculture and environment of the province in future.

He informed that developed and under developed countries of the world are making no compromises on forest, but unfortunately the forestry in Sindh received no proper attention despite the fact of elimination of mangroves forest in coastal belt due to sea intrusion and destruction of forest of the river bed.

The Vice Chancellor said that it was the result of destruction of forests in coastal belt and river, that floods and heavy rains caused huge losses to agriculture sector of the province.

He said that such destruction could be averted in future through tree plantation and improvement of forest areas of the province, but he said that collective efforts are required in this direction.