The faculty has recently approved the creation of divisions In Board of Studies and Faculty Meeting in accordance 5th Deans’ Committee Report (ICAR). Hence, the faculty in now in a position to offer degrees with specializations at both MSc and PhD level in the following disciplines:
- Silviculture and Agroforestry
- Forest Biology and Tree Improvement
- Natural Resource Management
- Forest Products and Utilization
- Wildlife Sciences
Besides these programmes, the faculty organizes need based short term trainings and formal short term training courses for the in-service (Assistant Professors and above, Officials from line departments).
The faculty is manned with 19 teaching (all having PhD in different specializations) and 22 (non-teaching) staff working with coherence under different capacities and disciplines.
Thrust areas of the Faculty
- Trained manpower generation to improve resource base in forestry
- Sustainable and productive agroforestry systems
- Climate resilient forestry
- Clonal forestry and crop/species improvement
- Advancement in technology (Remote sensing and GIS) for accurate forest resource inventory
- Exploring the potential of temperate medicinal and aromatic plants for developing entrepreneurship.
- Innovative research on forest and grassland biomass stock and productivity
- Research on energy plantations, fodder bank etc. to balance the increasing demand of fuel wood and fodder