Available information on the forest resources of Ethiopia is very limited. There is inadequate information on location, extent and volume of the standing growth stock, annual growth rate, or rates at which these resources are being depleted.
The Forestry Research Centre (FRC) under Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) was established in 1975 to carry out research on nursery techniques, species establishment and provenance trials, to undertake seed collection and distribution, trials on seed physiology and agroforestry. In addition to the Forestry Research Centre, other training and development institutions undertake conservation related forestry activities. These institutions carry out some observations on nursery techniques and most of them maintain seed stands and arboreta. They include:
The Department of Biology of Addis Abeba University (MU) has a project on the propagation of economically important indigenous forest tree species. The project aims at developing methods of rapid propagation through tissue culture and other techniques.
