{"id":98,"date":"2023-07-29T09:57:45","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T09:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cofs.uasd.edu\/?page_id=98"},"modified":"2023-10-26T11:36:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T06:36:58","slug":"history-and-genesis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cofs.uasd.edu\/index.php\/history-and-genesis\/","title":{"rendered":"History and Genesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The College of Forestry, Sirsi is one of the premier institutes of forestry education in the country and a constituent college of the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>During the early 1980\u2019s, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) provided an opportunity to start state-run forestry<\/strong> <\/span>Colleges in various State Agricultural Universities (SAUs) in the country.\u00a0 The University of Agricultural Sciences, (UAS) took lead to initiate a four-year Forestry Degree Programme during the academic year 1985-86 since it earlier had a head-start in initiating the research in the field of Agro forestry at Prabhunagar.\u00a0 Earlier as per the recommendation of the National Commission on Agriculture, ICAR had started a course in \u2018Farm Forestry\u2019 during 1976 in all SAUs. All India Coordinated Research Project (AICRP) on Agro forestry proposed by the scientists of UAS was also subsequently approved by the ICAR. Based on the model proposed, several centers were started at various places throughout India.\u00a0 Hence it was logical to start formal education on forestry at Dharwad campus.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the Forestry Degree Programme functioned as an independent Department of the College of Agriculture, Dharwad.\u00a0 Several staff members belonging to various disciplines were trained abroad (in places such as Oxford Forestry Institute, UK; various Universities in USA) for a period of one-year between 1985 and 1989. In the meantime, the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad was established after bifurcation of the UAS, Bangalore.<\/p>\n<p>There was a growing concern among the academicians and politicians alike that the students of forestry should have a greater exposure and access to natural forests.\u00a0 Hence the terminal two years of Forestry Degree Programme were shifted from Dharwad to Magod in Yellapur taluk of Uttara Kannada (UK) district during November 1987.\u00a0 It was initially thought that the campus infrastructure at Magod, left vacant following the stalling of the intended \u2018Bedthi hydroelectric power project, would be sufficient to run a College and a hostel.<\/p>\n<p>However, after about a couple of difficult years, it was felt that the infrastructure facilities at Magod were insufficient and many a times lacking. During May 1990, the Programme was shifted to Sirsi. Sirsi is right in the center of one of the \u2018global hotspots of bio-diversity\u2019 of the world, i.e. the Western Ghats, and is bestowed with different natural forest types. The various activities of the State Department of Forests are concentrated around Sirsi.\u00a0 Joint Forest Planning and Management is also being effectively undertaken in this region.\u00a0 There were two other research stations of the UAS Dharwad (Paddy and Pepper) also functioning within the precincts of this cozy town.\u00a0 A Krishi Vigyan Kendra is located in the campus. All these have made a good milieu for the housing of College of Forestry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The College of Forestry, Sirsi is one of the premier institutes of forestry education in the country and a constituent college of the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad.\u00a0 During the early 1980\u2019s, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) provided an opportunity to start state-run forestry Colleges in various State Agricultural Universities (SAUs) in the country.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-98","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cofs.uasd.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cofs.uasd.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cofs.uasd.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cofs.uasd.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cofs.uasd.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cofs.uasd.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"https:\/\/cofs.uasd.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cofs.uasd.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}