Forestry Research in India: Status, Issues ... - TERI University

Digitization of National Forest Insect Collection (NFIC)National Forest Insect Collection (NFIC) is a unique collection of forestry related insects of the Indiansubcontinent. It is one of the three main depositories of national importance of India. This uniquecollection has pride of holding about 3,00,000 pinned specimens with about 18,000 authenticallyidentified species (including 1700 types). The collection is mainly of forest insects of injurious natureand is confined largely to the Indian subcontinent e.g., India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal,Myanmar and to lesser extent Malaya.Up gradation and Computerization of National Insect Forest Collection(NIFC)‣ For Scientific management ofholdings in the collection databasewas developed to cater day-to-dayfunctional needs of the collection.‣ Data of 18,000 species from 48,000localities have been incorporatedinto the database.‣ Digital pictures of all the specieshave been taken and shall be linkedto the database.‣ In near future the database will beloaded on the net for public use.