Preliminary results of the fire hazard and forest culture seasons in the Volga Federal District were discussed in Orenburg
Today, a meeting on preliminary results of the fire hazard and forest cultural seasons, as well as on implementation of the federal project “Forests Conservation” was opened in Orenburg. The meeting is held by the Department of Forestry in the Volga Federal District. The event is attended by representatives of regional forestry authorities, industry institutions, scientific community, including from the Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan - Timur Galiyev, Head of the Forest Reproduction and Afforestation Department.
Prior to the meeting, its participants visited the Ministry of Forestry and Hunting of the Orenburg Region, where they got acquainted with the activities of school forestry and took part in the awarding ceremony of the regional competition “Feeding houses”.
The meeting was held at the base of the House of Soviets. Deputy Head of the Forestry Department of the Volga Federal District Sergey Kovalev, acting Minister of Forestry and Hunting of the Orenburg Region Yuri Goncharov and acting Minister of Natural Resources, Ecology and Property Relations of the Orenburg Region Aleksandr Sambursky welcomed the participants.
Presentations were made by the Deputy Head of the Forestry Department of the Volga Federal District Sergey Kovalev, representatives of the Ministry of Forestry and Hunting of the Orenburg Region, the Ministry of Forestry of the Kirov Region, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Saratov Region, etc. The results of the fire hazard season of 2019 in the Volga Federal District, tasks for 2020, results of the federal project “Forests Conservation”, the possibility of improving the efficiency of work to protect forests from fires, forests reproduction and afforestation were discussed.
Also Timur Galiyev, the Head of the Forest Reproduction and Afforestation Department made a report at the meeting. In his speech, he introduced the participants to the forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan, the results of reforestation and afforestation this year and the activities of the Forest Selection and Seed Center of the Republic of Tatarstan. In particular, Timur Galiyev said that the FSSC of RT is the largest automated nursery in Europe, equipped with modern equipment, where planting material with a closed root system is grown. The production capacity of the center is 12 million seedlings with closed root system per year. FSSC covers an area of 11.3 hectares, on which there are 4 greenhouses, 13 growing fields, a cooling and storage building for seedlings, 2 warehouses, etc.
Timur Galiyev elaborated on the advantages of using planting stock with closed root system. “The most important of them, of course, is to reduce the time for growing seedlings by 3 times. If on the open ground planting material is grown on average 2-3 years, then in FSSC - during one growing season, said the speaker. - The second is the high survival rate of plants. When we plant planting material with an open root system, it is almost always necessary to conduct autumn supplement work. In turn, seedlings with a closed root system have a survival rate close to 100%”.
Timur Galiyev also identified such positive aspects as elimination of the risk of infection of the cultivated planting material with infectious diseases, possibility of planting it throughout the growing season, minimizing the cost of using equipment and fuels and lubricants, etc.
After the meeting, its participants took part in the final stage of the “Save the Forest” reforestation campaign. Planting seedlings was organized in the square named after Yu.A. Gagarin.
Tomorrow, on October 31, a field seminar is planned on the territory of the Novosergievskiy forest district. Within its framework, specialists will inspect the areas of forest crops and the Platovskaya forest dacha (genetic reserve of artificial origin).