The use of forests for agriculture in the conditions of the North-West of the Russian Federation

Abstract

The work is devoted to the analysis of the normative and methodological foundations and practices of the use of forests for agriculture in the forest fund of the North-West of the Russian Federation. Constructive interaction between forestry, agriculture and hunting economy is one of the conditions for the successful development of the economy of the Russian Federation, including ensuring its food security. The purpose of this study is to identify the importance of using forests for agriculture as a necessary condition for constructive interaction of the above-mentioned industries. To achieve the purpose of the study, the following tasks were set and solved: to analyze the regulatory and methodological foundations and practice of using forests for agriculture in the forest fund of the North-West of the Russian Federation and to justify the need for wider application in forestry practice of using forests for agriculture, including from the point of view of forest biogeocenology, since it covers knowledge all the properties of the forest components that determine their interaction, and also establishes patterns, managing this interaction and the development of the forest biogeocenosis as a whole. In the NWFD, forests are used for agriculture on an area of 5.4 million hectares, which is almost a third (31.8%) of the total area of forests used for agriculture in the Russian Federation. Therefore, this type of forest use is very important for the forest fund of the North-West of the Russian Federation.