Functions:

➤Development of technologies for the rehabilitation and construction of windbreaks;
➤Integrating promising agroforestry crops for Georgian conditions;
➤Introduction/testing of fast-growing non-invasive woody species and forms;
➤Research of modern approaches to cultivation of bio-economic and energy plantations;
➤Description-inventory of rare woody species, mapping and research;
➤Creation of a seed bank and completion of a unified database;
➤Establishment and research of living collections of important species;
➤Research on methods of sustainable use of forest natural resources in order to utilize degraded lands.