The state and main problems of afforestation in Ukraine
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31548/forest2019.04.064Abstract
In Ukraine level of arable lands is the highest in the world. Intensive exploitation of agricultural lands has led to their degradation. Degradation processes are associated with the erosion and compaction of soil as well as its salinization and pollution. One of the most effective tools that contribute to reducing the intensity of land degradation is withdrawal from service of degraded and unproductive lands and their transformation into forests and grasslands. The strategic objective of forestry in Ukraine in the near future is to optimize percentage of forest land of the country up to level of 20 %. To do this, on an area of about 3 million hectares, it is necessary to create forest stands. We have analyzed statistical materials of afforestation in Ukraine for the period 2010-2014 (within the implementation of the State special program «Forests of Ukraine» for 2010-2015 years) and 2016-2018 years as well as the results of scientific research on the assessment of forest vegetation potential of low-yield lands, particularly the complex of saline soils, transmitted under afforestation to Poltava Regional Directorate of Forestry and Hunting. It is shown that in Ukraine the total area of accepted but non-forested lands is 44777 ha, and 96.9 % of this area falls on forestry enterprises of the Steppe zone. Taking root and especially the survival of 1-3 year-old forests created during the afforestation are very low – 66.4 % and 60.9 % accordingly. It is proved that afforestation of low-yield lands, in particular floodplain and non-floodplain habitats, which are with high probability presented by saline soils must be preceded by examination with the aim of determining the level of their forest suitability and in general the expediency of afforestation. A number of issues are outlined, the solution of which will increase the efficiency of afforestation and will contribute to bringing the forest cover of Ukraine to the optimal level.
Keywords: low-yield lands, afforestation, forest suitability of soils, taking root and survival of forest crops.
References
Debryniuk, Iu., & Raspopina, S. (2019). Influence of plantation-type forests on forest soil fertility indicators under conditions of the Western Forest-Steppe of Ukraine. Proceedings of the forestry academy of sciences of Ukraine, 18. doi: https://doi.org/10.15421/411903[in Ukrainian]. https://doi.org/10.15421/411903
Migunova, E. S. (1978). Forest plantations on saline soils. Moscow: Forest industry [in Russian].
On approval of the National Action Plan for Combating Land Degradation and Desertification. (2016). Retrieved from https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/ show/271-2016-%D1%80 [in Ukrainian].
Polupan, N. I., Kysil, V. D., Kovalishin, D. I., Dusanovsky V. L., Vernander, N. B., … Andrushchenko, H. A. (1981). Field determinant of soils. Kyiv: Harvest [in Russian].
Public report of public agency forest resources of Ukraine in 2018. (2018). Retrieved from https://drive.google.com/file/d/194P-skQpV9fI1BOdYBGSKix_u1yHlfhQ/ view [in Ukrainian].
Raspopina, S. P. (2017). Methodological problems of estimating the potential of soils withdrawn from agricultural circulationfor forest growth. Scientific Journal "Ukrainian Journal of Forest and Wood Science", 152 (2), 163-170 [in Ukrainian].
Raspopina, S. P. (2017). The scientific basis of estimating the potential of soils for forest growth and the suitability of soils for growing forest plantations in plain parts of Ukraine (Doctoral dissertation, Ukrainian National Forestry University, Lviv, Ukraine). Retrieved from http://old.nltu.edu.ua/docs/svr/d35.072.02/ raspopina/aref_raspopina.pdf [in Ukrainian].
Raspopina, S. P., & Degtyarev, V. V. (2016). Еffective use of soils transferred for afforestation. Proceedings of the Uman National University of Horticulture. Part 1: Agricultural Sciences, 88, 31-39 [in Ukrainian].
Raspopina, S. P., Lisnyak, A. A., Zborovska, O. M., Selivanova, L. O., Ivanicheva, E. V., Nojenko, N. I. (2018). Methods for determining the suitability of soils for forestry. Kharkiv [in Ukrainian].
Sayko, V. F. (2008). The scientific rationale for agriculture in the context of climate change. Bulletin of agricultural science, 9, 5-10 [in Ukrainian].
Shlapak, V. P. (2019). Reserves for increasing afforestation and productivity of pine cultures in the Central-prydniprovsky highland area. Scientific Bulletin of UNFU, 29 (7), 50-59. doi: https://doi.org/10.15421/40290711 [in Ukrainian]. https://doi.org/10.15421/40290711
Stadnyk, A. P., Slavhorodska, Yu. V. (2018). Regulatory support of optimization of Structure agricultural landscapes. Agroecological journal, 3, 6-11 [in Ukrainian]. https://doi.org/10.33730/2077-4893.3.2018.147955
State Target Program "Forests of Ukraine" for 2010-2015. Retrieved from http://zakon4.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/977-2009-п [in Ukrainian].
Strategy of sustainable development and institutional reform of forestry and hunting economy of Ukraine for the period up to 2022. (2017). Retrieved from https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9CGEXC5v0a9MWZNbWZfY3BsdTg/view [in Ukrainian].
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Relationship between right holders and users shall be governed by the terms of the license Creative Commons Attribution – non-commercial – Distribution On Same Conditions 4.0 international (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0):https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.uk
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
