About Department
		Academic Programmes
		Infrastructure
		Mandate
		Faculty
		Research Activities and Achievements(including projects)
		Extension Activities and Achievements
		Research Recommendations (Approved in AGRESCO)
		Publications
		Contact Information

About Department 

Infrastructure Facilities

Specialized Laboratories/ Facilities

The department has developed good laboratories/ facilities for imparting teaching like

1. Mist chamber
2. Mini computer center
3. Nursery
4. Wood working workshop

Sophisticated Equipments

In addition to the common equipments the laboratories are equipped with sophisticated equipments like

• BOD incubator
• Centrifuge
• Global Positioning System (GPS)
• LCD Projector
• Wood working machines
• Laminar Air flow.
• Hot Press
• Boiler
• Wood Grinder/ Pulvinizer
• Wood Strength Testing Machine
• Field and tracking equipments
• Trent and camping equipments
• Kjeldal unit
• Laptop
• Colored printer
• Digital camera
• Scanner
• Photostat machine
• FAX machine
• EPBX unit
• Charcoal unit
• Bamboo treatment kit

Teaching Aids available at Department of Forestry

In the computer laboratory of department, facilities for conducting Practical are available and also INTERNET facilities are available for staff and students.

The infrastructural facilities available for imparting teaching and practical for the student are as given below.
Infrastructural Facilities: The infrastructural facilities like building, classroom, mini bus etc. is given as below:

Farm Land

Department is in possession of total area 40.0 ha of land. Out of which 2.6 ha land comprises department building and plantation around it and 2.00 ha of block plantation of timber species, 5.00 ha of Simaruba glauca plantation and 15.00 ha comprises research experiments field. The university area under agency trial on 15.00 ha. Further 300 ha of Jatropha curcas plantation has been under taken by the Department of Forestry under agency trial.

To meet the irrigation facilities and drinking water, two bore wells with submersible pump are available. The tractor and other implements are made available by Central Research Station, Dr. P.D.K.V, Akola as and when required.

Mandates

The prime mandate of the department is to develop human resource in the field of forestry, to conduct research for development of new techniques for forestry and agro-forestry and to disseminate research findings to the farming community of the region.

1. To create an ambient atmosphere and intellectual skill in the area of forestry and allied field.
2. To impart technical base and to develop man powers for supporting the state and country in the field of forestry.

Objectives

1. To cater the need of future research based forestry development and fulfill demand of the specialized technical personnel of this region.
2. To provide scientific manpower for afforestation of wasteland.
3. To undertake the basic research in the field of forestry.

Research Activities/Achievements

The Department of Forestry, Dr. P.D.K.V., Akola falls in the agro-ecological Western Vidharba zone (Semiarid Lava Platue and Central high lands). The activities of research and extension are based on the needs of the farmers, state forest department, forest based industries, funding agencies and other end users. The research and extension activities are carried out by the faculty members and students of this department.

The research programme undertaken by the staff members of the Department of Forestry are discussed in the research planning meeting of Horticulture, Forestry and Medicinal & Aromatic Plants of Annual Research Review Committee headed by the Director of Research of the University. The research recommendations are finalized in Joint Agriculture Research Committee before recommendations are made available to the end users. The Ad-hoc research project funded by National Oilseeds and Vegetable Oils Development Board (NOVOD) and State Forest Department, Government of Maharashtra are also taken-up for research and training programme.

At present The Department of Forestry have following adhoc externally funded research project.

Apart from the externally funded research project, the following project are funded by University.

All India Coordinated Research Programme on Agroforestry

All India Co-ordinated Research Project on Agroforestry (AICRP on Agroforestry) is one of the co-ordinating centre of ICAR. The implementation of this project at College of Agriculture, Nagpur under Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola (M.S.) started in February1991. The project was sanctioned on 75:25 basis to be shared by ICAR and State Government respectively. The project was initiated with the objectives of popularization of Agroforestry in the region. The futala developmental unit have been merged in AICRP on agroforestry and the reorganized unit is renamed as Agroforestry Research Farm, College of Agriculture, Nagpur

Mandate

1. Diagnostic Survey and appraisal of existing farming systems and
   Agroforestry practices.
2. Research related to basic and applied aspects including development of appropriate methodologies for Agroforestry Systems.
3. To develop various Agroforestry systems.

Objectives

1. Collection, screening and selection of promising germplasm indigenous as well as exotic species from different ecological regions.
2. Developing different Agri-silvicultural, Agri- horticultural and Silvipastoral technique acceptable to local population.
3. Developing sequential systems of inter cropping.
4. Evolving the economics of different Agroforestry systems and establishing it’s co-relation with management Viz. conservation,development and utilization.

List of experiments

1. Performance and evaluation ofdifferent MPTS under Agri-Silviculture.
2. Studies on integrated nutrient management of Teak.
3. Compatibility studies of different trees and crops.
4. Preparation of vermicompost using biomass from Teak based Agroforestry system.
5. Studies on organic manuring in Jatropha curcas.
6. Effect of pruning on Jatropha curcas
7. Field evaluation trial of teak
8. Studies on irrigation requirement of Teak
9. Effect of contour trenching on in-situ water conservation and growth of crops in hortipastoral system.
10. To study the effect of conservation practices and felling intensity on production of Bamboo.
11. Standardization of vegetative Propogation Techniques in Bamboo(D.strictus)
12. Evaluation of crops for intercropping in bamboo based Agri-silviculture system.
13. Standardization of technique for developingtall seedling of teak
14. Development of quality planting material of Bamboo (D.strictus)

Extension Activities and Achievement

In addition to teaching, the teachers of department have rendered advisory services to farmers, tree growers, State Forest Department and NGO’s by visiting their fields and answering quarries raised by them through mail /post. The teachers of this College are also actively involved in dissemination of research information through extension literature, radio talks, and TV programmes.

Publications

Contact Information

Dr. S. S. Harne
Professor and Head
Department of Forestry
P.O. Krishi Nagar
Dr. P.D.K.V, Akola -444 104 Maharshtra, India
Email : harne_ss@yahoo.co.in
Phone No. +91 0724-2258889
Fax No. +91 0724-2258889