Punjab forest department is organising a two-day workshop on prevention of diseases among 'Shisham' trees from March 4 to 5 in the provincial metropolis. Experts from Saarc countries including India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal and Pakistan would be participating in this conference. Punjab Minister for Agriculture and Forests, Malik Ahmad Ali Aulkah will be the chief guest on this occasion.
According to a spokesman of the forests department, Shisham had been planted along roads and canals in Pakistan since long and these were producing high quality wood. However, now these forests were heavily affecting due to the disease called 'quick decline.' Research is being carried out by the Punjab forests department's research institutions and local universities to prevent this disease besides the research being carried out in other Saarc countries.