Virtual training Programme on High-Tech Forest Nurseries for Officials of Sri Lanka Forest Department from 18th to 21st January 2022

Forest Research Institute under the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education, Dehradun is organizing a Virtual training Programme on High-Tech Forest Nurseries for Officials of Sri Lanka Forest Department from 18^th to 21^st January 2022. The course is being organized on the request of the Sri Lanka Forest Department through Ministry of External Affairs and MoEF&CC.

Shri RP Singh Head Silviculture division FRI welcomed the dignitaries and gave an outline of the course which will be covering the different topics like High-tech nursery: Site selection, Establishment, Design and Layout, Modern Infrastructure and facilities, Nursery operations and production of quality planting stock of forestry species in high tech nursery, forest seed technology, Vegetative propagation  and tissue culture techniques  for production of quality planting material, Soil and nutrient management techniques, Water management techniques in nurseries, diseases and insect pest management, Modern techniques of Production of Quality Planting Material (QPM) of  Major Plantation species of Sri Lanka, Restoration and Conservation of native Mangrove species, Production of quality planting material of Medicinal Plants