A meeting of the Scientific and Technical Council was held at the Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan
Today, the Ministry held a meeting of the Scientific and Technical Council of the Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan. The event was attended by deputies of the Minister of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan - Emir Bedertdinov, Rais Gumerov, Chief Administrator - Ilgizar Zaripov, specialists from the Ministry and industry institutions.
At the beginning of the meeting, Vladimir Sakhnov, Senior Researcher of the Federal Budgetary Institution "VNIILM" Branch of the Eastern European Forest Experimental Station, made a presentation on the topic "Comparative analysis of forest crops created by planting material with a closed and open root system in the forest fund of the Republic of Tatarstan in 2018" .
“We analyzed the experience of growing planting material of the main forest-forming species for the last 5 years, he noted. - The survival rate of seedlings with a closed root system is 98%, open - 90-95%, the last in the first years develops poorly and requires constant addition. But after 5 years they are leveled”.
Vladimir Sakhnov stressed that despite the advantages of planting material with closed root system, it is necessary to choose seedlings on the basis of forest conditions.
Then Nail Khanov, Deputy Head of the Micro-clonal Vegetative Reproduction Laboratory of the State Budgetary Institution of the Republic of Tatarstan “Educational and Experimental Sabinskiy Forestry Enterprise” and Fedor Ilyin, Senior Researcher of the Federal Budgetary Institution "VNIILM" Branch of the Eastern European Forest Experimental Station made reports.
Nail Khanov acquainted the participants with results of work on creating an in vitro collection of clones of valuable deciduous genotypes (pedunculate oak and hanging birch) selected in the forests of the republic, and Fedor Ilyin – with the results of reconstruction of low-value plantings in the forest fund of Tatarstan in 2018.
At the end of the meeting a discussion and exchange of views on possible research projects in 2019 took place.