IFGTB scientist gets award from Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education

COIMBATORE: Senior principal of Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding (IFGTB) scientist Kannan C S Warrier has received the National Award of Excellence for Outstanding Research in Forestry for the year 2019.
The award was conferred on him by the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) for releasing three productive clones of casuarina, known as kattadi and savukku, that are suitable for salt affected soils for the first time in the country. India has around 6.73 million hectares of salt-affected land.
The institute in a statement said that Warrier has also been the recipient of the Rolla S Rao National Award for his extensive research on conservation of endangered sacred groves, also called koil kadu.
The scientist in his 27 years of forestry research published 232 research articles.
The clones he released are expected to boost ICFRE’s agro forestry initiatives.
ICFRE was recently declared as the centre for excellence in addressing issues related to land degradation by the Prime Minister. Warrier, who has a doctoral degree in forest genetics, is a first rank holder in BSc and MSc forestry at Kerala Agricultural University.