Conceptual provisions on plantation forest growing in Belarus

Abstract

Plantation forest growing in Belarus received practical significance. On the basis of local experience, including recommendations on the establishment of plantation forest plantations conifers and technical normative legal acts, developed the “Concept of plantation forest growing in the Republic of Belarus”. The main provisions of this concept are based on the intensification of forest growing technologies pine and spruce as a fast-growing tree species in optimal soil a nd climatic conditions that defines the strategy of plantation forestry in the country. Designed provisions are the basis of the concept of plantation forest growing in Belarus, the main essence of which is to ensure that the target plantations in the future be able to provide increasing amounts of softwood consumption balanc es in limited areas with short rotation. Suitable site conditions and tillage, use of planting material best genotypes and phenotypes, maintaining optimal density for the duration of forest growing, warning of Agronomy and silvicultural treatments, forest pest monitoring and preventive measures to protect the use of mineral fertilizers, if necessary, are the most important factors in the intensification of cultivation of pine and spruce. Moving on Wood Raw Materials plantation wood blanks even part of the root of natural forest stands will preserve biodiversity and the gene pool of pine and spruce forests, improving and developing with the plantation forestry in the country.