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STUMPS OF SPECIAL AREAS OF TREES IN ARMENIA TO BE NUMBERED
/ARKA/
MARCH 21, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, March 21. /ARKA/. Program of numbering and marking stumps
of trees cut in specially allocated areas under the administration
of the company "Armles" ("Armforest") starts in 2012 in Armenia,
said Deputy Director of the company Ruben Petrosyan.
"The initiator of this program is the World Bank. Stumps of all the cut
trees will be marked and the qualitative data will be entered in the
database that will allow to control the legality of cutting process
and further implementation of wood", said Petrosyan on Wednesday in
the press-conference declining to announce the volume of financing
of the program.
He said that the program will allow to follow and document cases of
illegal cutting of trees, as well as theft and sale of logs.
Petrosyan said that this one-year program will be implemented by
Agriculture Ministry of Armenia and the company "Armles".
As of the end of 2011 the territory of forests in Armenia is about
332 thousand ha.
From: A. Papazian
/ARKA/
MARCH 21, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, March 21. /ARKA/. Program of numbering and marking stumps
of trees cut in specially allocated areas under the administration
of the company "Armles" ("Armforest") starts in 2012 in Armenia,
said Deputy Director of the company Ruben Petrosyan.
"The initiator of this program is the World Bank. Stumps of all the cut
trees will be marked and the qualitative data will be entered in the
database that will allow to control the legality of cutting process
and further implementation of wood", said Petrosyan on Wednesday in
the press-conference declining to announce the volume of financing
of the program.
He said that the program will allow to follow and document cases of
illegal cutting of trees, as well as theft and sale of logs.
Petrosyan said that this one-year program will be implemented by
Agriculture Ministry of Armenia and the company "Armles".
As of the end of 2011 the territory of forests in Armenia is about
332 thousand ha.
From: A. Papazian