State and Trends of Forest Management Development

Abstract

Market regulation, dissatisfaction with the real demand for timber and forestry products, subject to the full and efficient use of their own raw materials and, finally, entering the external market are impossible without a radical change in the structure of the economy as a whole and restructuring of production. This should ensure the production of competitive products, their compliance with export requirements, the creation of favorable conditions for investment, as well as for changing forms of ownership, makes us look for adequate approaches to structural transformations and fundamentally new elements of structural policy in relation to the forestry complex. The forestry of Ukraine is now characterized by a crisis situation: the state of forests does not meet economic and environmental requirements, the forest area has decreased more than three times over the last millennium, an anthropogenic reformation of forest landscapes has occurred, a decrease in their natural productivity, and a depletion of biodiversity. Forest stands are depleted by excessive felling, their natural protective functions are lower than potentially possible. Due to the lack of investments, the rates of reforestation and afforestation remain low, and the disparity between the forest resource base, opportunities for forest exploitation and forest consumption has deepened. In this regard, the study of the current state of development of enterprises will provide an opportunity to constantly monitor and determine the prospects for development of forestry. The article analyzes the current state and prospects for the development of forestry. The forest fund is characterized, the priority directions of the forestry enterprise development are given. Analyzed the main financial and economic indicators and indicators of forestry. The main problems of its functioning and the ways of their solution are given. It is emphasized that the current state of forests and forestry indicates an urgent need to develop new foundations of forest management, which would take into account the need for a diverse and targeted use of forests, increase their sustainability, as well as the active introduction of expanded reproduction of forest resources, intensification of forest growth.