With its auspicious goal to produce competent and efficient human resource that can be instrumental in conservation and management of biodiversity, environment and natural resources and  development of rural communities, the IOF-PC, with the help of its enthusiastic teaching faculty and spirited staff, has always endeavored to ameliorate its academic environment and administer well designed educational programs that can address the current needs of the country  and the globe in forestry and allied fields. It is committed to satisfying student's quest for knowledge and pragmatic skills that will make all the difference in their professional career. The IOF-PC is currently running the following academic programs:

  1. Master of Science in Forestry
  2. Master of Science in Natural Resource Management and Rural Development (NRMRD)
  3. Master of Science in Watershed Management (WM)
  4. Master of Science in Community Forestry (CF)
  5. Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Forestry

Beside regular academic programs, it also conducts short-term national and international training and workshops in Forestry and allied subjects.

Events

Pokhara campus marked World Soil Day

In observance of World Soil Day this year on December 5, 2022, volunteers from the Save Soil campaign at the Institute of Forestry, Pokhara Campus, organized a brief “Presentation and Prize Distribution Program”. In the program, the significance of soil, the origins and goals of World Soil Day, and the international movement being conducted to save soil were discussed.

The volunteers had conducted a “photography contest” with the theme “Click to Save Soil: The Source of All Our Lives” on October 12, 2022 where  Mr. Deepak Kumar Mandal was chosen as the winner, followed by Mr. Nabeen Oli as the first runner-up and Mr. Shirshak Ghimire as the second runner-up, out of 26 contestants. The selection was done by a panel of judges of campus faculty, soil specialists, and the organizing committee. All three winners received their photographs framed along with the cash prizes of Rs. 3000, Rs. 2000, and Rs. 1000 respectively.

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