CURRENT STATE AND IMPROVEMENT OF FORESTRY EFFICIENCY

Abstract

The paper presents the peculiarities of the state of the forestry sector of Ukraine. The author studies the land fund and forest productivity, highlights the negative trend of significant increase in deforestation and provides recommendations for improving the efficiency of forestry activities and improving the forest industry as a whole.In particular, the scholar investigated the division of forests intocategories, the functions that these forests perform in the environment, as well as the affiliation of forests to forest consumers. The article alsoexplores the supply of forest, timber and land covered with forest percapita in Ukraine compared to other European countries. The author also conducted study of significant deforestation of the best forests that havenot reached maturity. Compared to 1980s, the number of processed wood (for beams, boards and other timber) in 2020 has increased dozens of times. When in the early nineties in the villages of Polesia of Ukraine and Transcarpathia there were 1–2 sawmills for sawing wood in the village, by the end of 2020 their number increased to 30-40 units in each settlement.This led to the unauthorised use of timber, theft, and the destruction ofstate forest resources. The study emphasizes that forest reproduction lags far behind final felling operations, which has a negative impact on the forest cover of Ukraine. The paper, based on the research, providesrecommendations for improving the restoration of forests and forestresources on the lands of former farming companies. Along with this, theauthor conducted a study of the forest sector funding and outlined ways to overcome this issue. The article also paid considerable attention to thecertification and monitoring of forests, determined their importance forimproving forest management.