The head of the Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan Ravil Kuzyurov met with students of the Faculty of Forestry and Ecology of the KSAU
Today the Minister of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan Ravil Kuzyurov gave a lecture for the 2nd and 3rd-year students of the Faculty of Forestry and Ecology of the Kazan State Agrarian University.
During the lecture, the minister told the students about the state of forestry in the Republic of Tatarstan, the work carried out on reforestation and afforestation, protecting forests from fires, protecting them from pests and diseases. In particular, he said that at present the total area of the republic's forests is 1 million 269 thousand hectares, the forest cover is 17.5%. "Taking into account the protective forest plantations located on lands of other categories that are not listed in the state forest register, the forest cover reaches 19.8%," said Ravil Kuzyurov.
The Minister noted that one of the priority tasks of the Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Tajikistan is to work to increase forests through reforestation and afforestation. "Since 2019, reforestation in Tatarstan has been carried out within the framework of the regional project "Preservation of Forests in the Republic of Tatarstan" of the federal project "Preservation of Forests" of the national project "Ecology", Ravil Kuzyurov informed. "Its goal is to ensure a balance of forest depletion and reproduction in a ratio of 100% by 2024."
To achieve this goal, 2 target indicators have been established: "the ratio of the area of reforestation and afforestation to the area of cutting down and dead forest stands, %" and "damage from forest fires, million rubles."
The minister said that reforestation work was carried out on an area of 2231 hectares under a regional project this year. "Today the value of the first target indicator is 83%. But the year is not over yet, in the autumn period it is planned to carry out measures to promote natural reforestation on an additional area of 1624 hectares," he said.
At the end of the lecture, the head of the Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan Ravil Kuzyurov answered students' questions about the availability of vacancies in the Ministry and its subordinate institutions, the number of wages, the implementation of measures to support young specialists, etc.