OREANDA-NEWS. March 30, 2011. Ukraine has the wood stock of 1 billion 800 million cubic meters. Chairman of the State Agency Message forest resources of Ukraine Viktor Siwiec said this at the press conference.

"Every year, Ukraine stores 15 million cubic meters of wood stock. Therefore, stock owned by Ukraine is the stock for 300 years. But, we must emphasize that this is so, given no new planting is planted", Victor Siwiec said.

He said that during 20 years of independence of Ukraine on those areas where the forest was cut, new forests are planted annually, and 20 thousand hectares of new forests are planted each year. "This figure about planting new forests will grow each year" - Victor Siwiec summed.