Dr. AV Raghu

Dr. A. V. Raghu obtained his master in Plant Science in Plant Science (year 1998) and Ph.D in Botany (year 2006) from Department of Botany, University of Calicut. He worked as Scientist at Centre for Medicinal Plants Research (CMPR), Arya Vaidya Sala, Kottakkal from 2003-2010 and joined the Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi, Kerala, as a scientist in December 2010. He has been working in the conservation and biotechnological aspects of medicinal plants and forestry species. He has also actively engaged in various extension activities at KFRI especially by organizing training programmes, awareness campaigns, seminars, workshops, farmers meet etc. He is a qualified Training Need Analysis (TNA) consultant.