KARACHI: Experts at the inaugural session of the three-day long international conference on ‘Sustainable Development: Halophytes for Green Revolution’ urged on the policies to adopt alternative solutions to tackle challenges of food insecurity in future. The Institute of Sustainable Halophyte Utilization (ISHU) of the University of Karachi (KU), has organised second international conference at the Karachi University Business School (KUBS), KU, is scheduled from January 07 to 09. One of the keynote speakers, Professor Dr Hans-Werner Koyro from Germany shared that people are getting older and requirement of getting good food is also getting higher and higher as the competition with food has increased over the years. There are around 2000 different types of halophytes around the world and still, the definition of halophyte is not clear. Some people even labelled potatoes, which is largely used as a regular food item, as halophyte.

Source: Pakistan Today January 07, 2019 18:00 UTC