The Instituto Forestal (INFOR) or Instituto Forestal de Chile is a Chilean public service tasked with carrying out research and development programmes related to the forestry sector in Chile. It belongs to the belonging to the Ministry of Agriculture. Instituto Forestal began in 1961 as a project by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and was officially created by the Government of Chile in 1965.[1] It has 5 centers in Chile.