Hon'ble Prime Minister of India
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Smt. Kanchan Devi
Director General ICFRE
Forthcoming Events
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ICFRE-RFRI NEWSLETTER (Vol 1, issue 4, (JULY-SEPTEMBER 2024) updated: 31 January 2025
Flyer of PRKRITI MAHAKUMBH-Forestry and Environment Awareness Camp updated: 29 January 2025
Newsletter, Vol-I, Issue-III, (April-June,2024) , RFRI, Jorhat updated: 20 November 2024
150th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL ISSUE ON “EVOLUTION OF FOREST MANAGEMENT IN INDIA” updated: 27 September 2024
Updates from ICFRE Institutes
ICFRE Technologies
Tree PALH is a biopesticide product which has been developed as an alternative to chemical pesticides for the management of insect pests of forestry importance. Use of Hydnocarpic acid as biopesticide is first of its kind and combination with neem oil and essential oil of Lantana is a new approach.
Biopesticides
“Tree Rich Biobooster” is a comprehensive potting mixture provides requisite nutrients and protects plants from pest and diseases. It is made from coconut fiber waste duly decomposed and enriched with all nutrients through various beneficial microbes.
Tree Rich Biobooster- An alternate potting mixture for plant production.
ArborEasy® DNA isolation kit is a spin column based genomic DNA isolation kit. ArborEasy® is a registered trademark. The isolation Kit provides an indigenous, nonbio-hazardous, low cost pin column based system for isolation of plant genomic DNA from wide range of tissue types, specifically tree tissues.
ArborEasyTM DNA Isolation Kit
Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding (IFGTB), is working on genetic improvement of Eucalyptus, Casuarina, Acacias and fast growing native tree species. This targeted research is carried out in close collaboration with the Paper industries and farmers to meet the raw material demand and increase the farm income.
Commercialization of Clones of Casuarinas and Eucalyptus
Commiphora wightii (Arn.) Bhandari, commonly known as guggal, is a medicinally important desert species of the family burseraceae. It is a well known for its valuable active principle found in its oleo-gum-resin (guggulsterone E and Z), which are used in drugs preparation for lowering the cholesterol level in human body.
Conservation and Species Restoration of Critically Endangered Medicinal Plant
Fresh eggs of rice moth, Corcyra cephalonica (Stainton) (Lepidptera : Pyralidae) were pasted on paper cards and hanged in teak forests for 2-3 days during last week of June in Udaipur (compartment No. 298 RF), Kalpi Forest Range, Mandla Forest Division, MP.
TFRI Tricho cards
Teak (Tectona grandis) is one of the major forest timber tree species in central Indian states of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra and Orissa. In central India, the preferred planting material is root-shoot rather than teak seedlings grown in root trainers.
Management of white grubs in teak nurseries
Bio-fertilizers or microbial inoculants are preparations containing live or latent cells of efficient strains of nitrogen fixing, mineral solubilizing, or cellulolytic microbes used for application to seed, soil or composting areas to augment the extent of availability of nutrients to plants. Biofertilizer has been extensively applied and accepted worldwide in agricultural crops, however, its application in forest tree species remains restricted.
Production and distribution of biofertilizers of microbial origin
Juniperus polycarpos C. Koch is an important indigenous conifer of North-Western Himalayan Region, commonly known as “Himalayan Pencil Cedar”. The seeds of this species have dormancy which affects its germination. Technology for breaking seed dormancy has been developed at HFRI during last 5 years.
Seed Technology of Juniperus polycarpos (Himalayan Pencil Cedar)
Picrorhiza kurrooa, Royle ex Benth. commonly known as Kutki is an important temperate medicinal plant found in western Himalayas, which has a great potential for commercial cultivation in higher temperate regions (above 2700 mts.).
Macro-proliferation technique for Kutki Multiplication
Valeriana jatamansi, Jones commonly known as Mushakbala is an important temperate medicinal plant species found in western Himalayas and possesses great potential for commercial cultivation. The species can be easily grown by seeds but the vegetative propagation has scientific advantage over sexual propagation
Macro-proliferation technique for Mushakbala Multiplication
Deodar (Cedrus deodara), one of the most valuable and dominant conifer species of the North-western Himalaya at certain intervals gets affected by a defoliator, Ectropis deodarae Prout, (Lepidoptera: Geometridae). This key pest seriously affects the younger crops in deodar forests.
Integrated Pest Management of Deodar Defoliator (Ectropis deodarae Prout)
The interspaces in the orchards of high hill temperate region can be better utilized and economic benefit from the orchards can be enhanced by intercropping selected commercially important medicinal plants.
Intercropping of temperate medicinal plants with horticultural plantation