The state enterprise "Forests of Ukraine" has entered into an agreement for the supply of 110 thousand pine and spruce seedlings with a closed root system (ZKS) to Slovakia.
Wood processing enterprises of Ukraine do not plan to buy wood in the second and subsequent quarters of 2024 due to the long-term blocking of the border and non-market prices for raw materials.
On the Ukrainian wood market there is an increase in prices and an increase in demand, said the General Director of the State Enterprise "Forests of Ukraine", Yuriy Bolokhovets.
The state enterprise "Forests of Ukraine" put up for a Dutch auction with a price reduction over a million cubic meters of wood that remained unsold at the auction in the fourth quarter.
According to the same State Statistics Committee for 2022, the number of registered enterprises and entrepreneurs with the KVED code 31 “furniture production” decreased by 12.9%, that is, ⅛ of the industry ceased operations.
SE "Forests of Ukraine" according to the results of 2023, it transferred UAH 10.5 billion to the budgets of all levels, which is a billion more than in previous years, reported the general director of the enterprise, Yuriy Bolokhovets.
The Western Interregional Forestry and Hunting Department summed up the results of tree planting for the year as part of the Green Country environmental initiative of the President of Ukraine.
During the period from the end of leaf fall in 2023, Ukraine exported furniture worth $730 million, which is 3.2% less than during this same period in 2022.
The Ministry of Environment Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine announced the issuance of the first electronic certificate of wood origin through EcoSystem
On November 29, in the Rivne region, all heads of forestry enterprises were fired. This was announced by the general director of the state enterprise “Forests of Ukraine” Yuriy Bolokhovets.
Over the span of a week, surveillance teams from various branches of the Polissia Forest Office, part of the State Enterprise "Forests of Ukraine," intercepted numerous instances of unlawful logging.
State enterprise "Forests of Ukraine" will plant more than 5.5 thousand hectares of new forests in the Odesa and Mykolaiv regions, announced the general director of the state enterprise, Yuriy Bolokhovets.
