Since the beginning of the year, the enterprise has already restored forests on an area of 17,000 hectares. This autumn, large-scale reforestation efforts will continue. The President’s program “Green Country” will be over-fulfilled this year in terms of planting one billion trees.

 

However, forest creation involves not only planting seedlings but also a huge range of additional work.

 

In particular, this includes supplementing forest plantations from previous years. This spring, such work was carried out on 11,600 hectares, and this autumn, approximately 2,000 hectares more will be added.

 

Another important area is forest maintenance, which includes agrotechnical measures such as removing grass and shrub vegetation that hinders the growth and development of trees. 90% of this work is performed mechanically, using special equipment that does not damage seedlings. As of today, maintenance of forest plantations and natural regeneration has been carried out on 77,000 hectares, and an additional 40,000 hectares are planned for autumn.

 

In total, the area of work this year – including reforestation, supplementation, and maintenance – exceeds 153,000 hectares!

 

This is an enormous amount of work, thanks to which future generations of Ukrainians will benefit from highly productive forests with high-quality commercial timber.