Economic efficiency optimization of forest species composition of ministry of forestry

Abstract

Forests and forest resources are the main renewal natural resource in Belarus, the important composite of the ecological-economic safety of our country. One of the main direction of the increase of ecological and economic forest possibilities is the optimization of species and ageclasses structure of forests. Optimization of species structure of forests including that of Ministry of Forestry has been made according to materials of the soil-site forest inspection, state assessment of forest, the data from GIS “Forest resources”, ecological-economic valuation of forests in the forest cadastre. Economic effect of optimization of forest species structure is being determined on the database of state assessment of forests, optimal forest species structure, timber volumes of reforestation pine, spruce and oak stands instead of the birch stands. Total annual economic effect of forest species structure optimization is 101 billion rubles. The greatest economic effect for one hectare of forest accounts for enterprises of Mogilev (19.0 million rubles) and Vitebsk (18.3 million rоrubles) forestries. The economic efficiency of forest species structure optimization is 3,3%.