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No funds from state budget will be allocated for afforestation in 2016. In the National Assembly the RA Minister of Agriculture Sergo Karapetyan presented the financing to the RA Ministry of Agriculture by the state budget project in 2016. The Minister Sergo Karapetyan particularly said about the programs on forest sector in the National Assembly, "In 2016 "Forest Conservation Program" will be continued". 1 billion 201 million AMD is planned to allocate for the program realization. Conservation of more than 344 thousand ha of forest lands will be carried out.
The funds provided by the state budget are totally allocated to providing salary to the employees of forest economy.
54 million 656 thousand AMD is planned to allocate to the "State Forest Monitoring Realization Program".
The program is aimed at gathering information on illegal logging of forests, illegal transportation and sale of wood, forest fires, expansion of diseases and insect pests and other negative actions. It is planned by the program to conduct researches and observations of 300 thousand ha of forest areas as well as 70 thousand ha of reserves and national parks".
November 16, 2015 at 16:16