In its interview with the nationwide newspaper’s correspondent D.Nazarkin Almas Nazirov told about short-term and long-term plans of the Ministry as well as of changes taken place in the agency’s work since opening of the woodworking factory of Kastamonu Integrated Wood Industry in the Alabuga Special Economic Zone. The Minister noted that the critical task of wood growers is to find balance between reafforestation, conservation, protection and the sustainable use of forest raw material resources. “All lands not involved in cultivation of crops should be afforested,” Almas Nazirov emphasized.