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Agriculture: Less wood harvested, more forest regeneration in 2014
The volume of harvested wood dropped by 6.2% while the area of regeneration works grew by 12.3% last year, while thw area of forest fund grew by 0.1%, according to INS data.
The forest fund area on December 31, 2014 compared to the same period of 2013 registered an increase of 0.1%, due to the introduction of degraded lands and not forested areas in the forest fund, INS shows in a press release.
Forests represent 97.6% of the national forest fund (total area of forests, lands for afforestation, areas serving forest culture, production or administration, other lands with forest destination or unproductive ones, included in forest reclamation on January 1, 1990 in according to the law, regardless of type of property).
In 2014 the volume of wood mass harvested dropped by 6.2% compared to 2013.
The area undergoing felling for regeneration recorded a drop of 6.8% against 2013. Of this area complete felling represented 4.9%.
At the end of 2014 the forest fund was 6,544,588 ha, 6,066 more than in 2013. Of that, forests represent 6,387,282 ha, an increase of 6,683 ha.
The wood volume harvested was of 17,889,300 cubic meters, on the droop by 1,174,500 cu.m.
The area of forests undergoing regeneration felling was 100,981 ha, 7,334 ha less than in 2013, of which complete felling was on 4,940 ha.
The regenerated forest area was 29,505 ha, 3,220 ha more than in 2013.
The distribution of the forest fund on development areas indicates an important concentration in the central development area (19.3% of forest fund), and North-Eastern (18.3%), followed by Western development areas (16%), North-West (15.1%), South-West Oltenia (12.4%), Wallachia South (10.1%), South-Eastern (8.4%) and Bucharest-Ilfov (0.4%).
The biggest wood quantity was harvested in the North-eastern area (26.1% of total volume harvested), followed by Central area (24.6%) and to a less extent by Western (12.4%), North-Western (11.8%), Wallachia South (9.8%), South-West Oltenia (7.7%), SOuth Eastern (7.2%) and Bucharest Ilfov (0.4%).
The largest areas where forest regeneration works were carried out were in the North-Eastern area (25.5%) and Central (16.5%), followed by South_Eastern area (16.1%), North Western (13.1%), Western (11.9%), Wallachia South (9.6%), South-West Oltenia (6.7%) and Bucharest-Ilfov (0.6%).