Moldovan government approves national programme on extension, rehabilitation of forests for 2023-2032

Chisinau, 17 February /MOLDPRES/ - The areas of afforested lands will be extended by about 150,000 hectares in the next ten years, both on new lands and on strongly degraded forest lands, state-owned or, for the first time ever, private lands. These provisions are contained in the national programme on the extension and rehabilitation of forests for 2023-2032, approved by the cabinet today, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.  

According to Environment Minister Iordanca-Rodica Iordanov, for a long term, the programme is set to attenuate the climate changes and the emissions of carbon, reduce the soil’s degradation, conserve the precious soils, a positive dynamic of sediments in the hydrographic network.     

Other goals of the public policies document regard the planting of river and agricultural protection belts, creation of three regional centres of industrial breeding and reproduction of forest material and the meeting of Moldova’s needs with products and services generated by woods. 

„This programme proposed and initiated by President Maia Sandu is fundamental for more aspects of the economy and the living of our citizens. The document will help us become carbon-neutral till 2023; will help us switch to the green energy. This is a programme which will produce a lot of benefits for the agricultural sector, where the humidity is important and the look of the rural areas of the country will change as well,’’ Prime Minister Dorin Recean said.      

Presently, the afforested area occupies 11 per cent of the territory in Moldova, while the EU’s degree of afforestation is of 37.7 per cent.   

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