Mr. Vikas Kumar completed Ph.D Forestry (Dept. of Silviculture and Agroforestry) in College of Forestry, Vellanikkara under the Kerala Agricultural University, Thrissur (Kerala)- 680656. He graduated from College of Forestry, Ponnampet, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore (Karnataka) and Post graduated from ASPEE college of Horticulture and Forestry, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari (Gujarat). He worked as Junior Research Fellow, Research Fellow in different project.He qualified the ASRB NET (ICAR) on Oct, 2013. He presented research paper in different International or national conference/ seminar i.e. total 57 (36 international and 21 national) and wrote eight books.