In the forestries of the republic the soils for future forests are totally prepared

The Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan sums up the autumn inventory of forest plantations, nurseries, and areas where measures to promote natural regeneration have been taken. Within the best agrotechnical terms the forest plantations were taken care; the works in forest nurseries were completed; the seeds were collected; the soil for forest plantations of 2016 was prepared.

So, the total amount of seed raw materials and seeds having quality certificates amounted to 1515.3 kg of which: Scots pine – 260.9 kg (including - 56 kg of seeds of selected Scots pine), fir spruce – 301.3 kg, Siberian larch – 53 kg, weeping birch – 639.5 kg, and green ash – 150 kg.

110.6 kg of seeds of fancy breeds and other shrubs (Caragana arborescens, blood-red hawthorn, rugosa rose, dwarf ninebark, common chokecherry, common cherry, bush honeysuckle) were harvested.

The harvesting of seeds of English oak, fir spruce, Scots pine, fancy breeds and other shrubs are currently is on.