Future Strategies-Department of Forest Products and Wildlife

Future Strategies

Utilization of Timber and Non Timber Forest Products

  • Development of Xylarium and database management
  • Characterizing wood of lesser known species for commercial utility
  • Suitability of Ailanthus excelsa and Sterculia foetida for ply wood production
  • Bio ecology and management of wood boring beetles in wood yards
  • Harvesting, processing and product development from gums yielding trees

Value Addition of NTFPs

  • Development of value added products from bamboos
  • Development of value added products of gums from trees grown in Farm lands under different agro climatic zones of Tamil Nadu
  • Promotion of Apiculture and its honeybee byproducts in Forest ecosystems
  • Promotion and utilization of Lac cultures and its products in Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve
  • Microencapsulation of edible exudates gums
  • Extraction and characterization of pigments from natural resources
  • Electro spinning of hydrocelloides (Gum)
  • Value added by products from Mahua oil cake, Delonix and Proposis

Habitat Management and Understanding Prey-Predator Relationship

  • Habitat analysis and habitat evaluation in Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserves
  • Corridor assessment and migration studies of wild animals in Tengumaragada to Ananikatty corridor
  • Mitigation measures for man-animal conflict in Coimbatore Forest division
  • Population dynamics of herbivores and carnivores in Foot hill of Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve