Guwahati, Feb. 18 -- The Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE)-Rain Forest Research Institute (RFRI), Jorhat, in collaboration with the Assam Forest Department, launched the state's first Forest Soil Health Cards (FSHC) on Tuesday.

The cards, covering all 33 territorial forest divisions, were officially released by Assam's PCCF & HoFF Sandeep Kumar in the presence of Dr. Nitin Kulkarni, Director, ICFRE-RFRI, Jorhat, Dinesh K. Meena, Scientist-D & Principal Investigator of the All India Coordinated Research Project on Preparation of Forest Soil Health Cards, and other senior forest officials.

Developed to address the lack of scientific data on forest soil health in Assam, the FSHCs provide recommendations for improvin...