Director of Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy (IGNFA) RK Goyal, while inaugurating the workshop stressed on the need for use of certified seed of forest species to increase forest productivity. He called for setting up a national network for making quality seed available to seed deficit states from the surplus States. Deputy director general of the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) Saibal Dasgupta highlighted the need for dissemination of information. In this direction, state of knowledge reports on different aspects of forestry are being prepared by ICFRE through technical experts in different institutes of the council. The first book in this series Seed Science and Technology authored by Manisha Thapliyal, Senior Scientist of FRI, Dehradun was released on the occasion.
