Rain Forest Research Institute (RFRI) is a research institute situated in

Jorhat Jorhat ( /) is a major city in Upper Assam division, Upper Assam and among the fastest growing urban centres in the state of Assam in India. Etymology Jorhat ("jor" means twin and "hat" means market) means two hats or mandis - "Masorhaat" and ...

Assam Assam (, , ) is a state in Northeast India, northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra Valley, Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . It is the second largest state in Northeast India, nor ...

. It works under the

Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education The Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) is an autonomous organisation or governmental agency under the MoEFCC, Government of India. Headquartered in Dehradun, its functions are to conduct forestry research; transfer the ...

(ICFRE) of the

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. As of January 2022, there are a total of 51 members in this research institute, at present, there are three departments here, that are, the Department of Biotechnology, the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Entomology. Some recent publications include:- * Microbial Fuel Cells for Wastewater Treatment * Recent Advances in Direct C−H Trifluoromethylation of N‐Heterocycles * The comparative soil fertility in traditional and alder-based shifting cultivation of varied fallow lengths in Eastern Indian Himalayas * Satellite-based integrated approaches to modelling spatial carbon stock and

carbon sequestration Carbon sequestration is the process of storing carbon in a carbon pool. It plays a crucial role in Climate change mitigation, limiting climate change by reducing the amount of Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere, carbon dioxide in the atmosphe ...

potential of different land use of Northeast India * Predicting Soil Cation Exchange Capacity in Entisols with Divergent Textural Classes: The Case of Northern Sudan Soils * Biomass and vegetation carbon stock in mangrove forests of the Andaman Islands, India The North East Institute of Science and Technology (NEIST) has collaborated with Rain Forest Research Institute for the research and development of forestry in the Northeastern parts of India.

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Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Indian forest research institutes Research institutes in Assam Environmental organisations based in India 1988 establishments in Assam {{India-org-stub Environmental studies institutions in India

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