Khalid Bin Abdullah Al-Abdul Qadir, CEO, Na-tional Center for Vegetation Corps and Combating Desertification (Saudi Arabia) visited various de-partments of NARC.
Dr. Ghulam Muhammad Ali, Chairman, PARC and Senior Management welcome and briefed about the structure, research activities and important research initiatives of Pakistan Agri-cultural Research Council and Dry land Agriculture in Pakistan.
Dr. Khalid Bin Abdullah said that the Saudi Gov-ernment is working on a 10 billion tree program in Saudi Arabia and is also part of the 40 billion tree program in the Middle East.
After briefing by Chairman, PARC, Dr. Ghulam Muhammad Ali, the Saudi delegation visited NI-GAB, Gene Bank, Rangeland Research and Field Station of Climate Change, Energy and Water Re-source Institute.
The delegation took keen interest in the research activities of these institutes and ex-pressed its intention to cooperate and collaborate with the Council in the exchange of germs of multi-purpose trees, shrubs and grasses to deal with the desert.