It is estimated that approximately 3 million of the saplings will be needed for such reforestation. The reforestation will cost about LTL 1 million (EUR 288 thousand) for the forest owners.
Forest owners will seek to cultivate hybrid – leafy and coniferous – forests that are more resistant to wind and various diseases.
The forest owner Vytautas Varankov notes that this year foresters are facing a shortage of seedlings. Very hard to get four kinds of the most popular seedlings – in large quantities they bought out and exported to foreign forest owners. Meanwhile, the small forest owners, who cannot compete with companies with foreign capital, have to settle for two-year- shoots, which is much more difficult to grow up.
According to the association, not including the annual reforestation work, in 2014 with the support of the EU will be planted about 4 hectares of new forests in places where before it was never done.
