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Being mandated as the only public research organization to
conduct forest management and forest utilization research, BFRI is rich
enough to cater to the current information needs of the nation with the database
it has created and the technologies generated. Although administered by the
Ministry of Environment and Forest (MOEF), Government of the People’s
Republic of Bangladesh, BFRI is a
component of the National Agricultural Research System (NARS) and has been
maintaining strong collaboration with national and international forestry
research organizations and networks.
BFRI maintains the
richest forestry library and documentation facilities in the country. Thirty-one
volumes of an internationally abstracted forestry research journal (Bangladesh
Journal of Forest Science) have so far been published from BFRI
till 2008. The institute has published over 1100 research papers, 170
bulletins and 50 popular folders and leaflets. It has so far imparted
training to over 50,000 individuals (foresters/extension workers, NGOs,
researchers, farmers/end-users, etc.) on the developed technologies
and the generated information.
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