On the importance of water protective stands creation

Within the framework of the Year of Ecology in the city of Kazan, an international conference on "Clean Water" is conducting in the premises of Exhibition Centre "Kazan Fair". The First Deputy Minister of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan, Emir Bedertdinov, took part in this forum. Speaking with the report on the importance of creation and preservation of water protective stands, E.N. Bedertdinov noted: "Considering the annual volumes of reforestation and afforestation in the republic, we have the opportunity to realize planting stock in other regions of the Russian Federation. As concerns protective afforestation, more than 2 thousand hectares of anti-erosion protective forest stands are created annually by foresters in the Republic of Tatarstan. Along with the maintenance of water protection and soil protection functions of forests, it is necessary to continue work on afforestation of water protection zones of small rivers, creation of ravine-girder protective plantations, protective and roadside forest belts. Currently the total area of such plantations comprises more than 57 thousand hectares. At present, according to the estimates of the Ministry, the area of lands requiring the creation of water protective stands amounts to more than 7 thousand hectares. In case of adequate funding availability, the Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan is ready to carry out work on the laying of water protective stands. For this purpose, the necessary equipment, the appropriate assortment and the amount of planting material are available in the subordinate institutions of the Ministry"..