Uldinovich: work in forestry unites 34.5 thousand people

Minister of Forestry Sergey Uldinovich in an interview with the journalist sb.by told how many people work in the industry.

- Forestry is an industry that unites 34.5 thousand people. But if you look more broadly and ask how many people the forest provides work for today, then this figure can be safely multiplied by two or even three. After all, the resource we grow and harvest is then used in other areas.

The average age of forestry workers is 44.

- This is the golden age, when there is already good experience behind you, and ahead is the opportunity to benefit the industry in which you work. As for gender, the industry remains predominantly male at 79 percent. Although girls are increasingly coming to work in forestry every year, Sergey Uldinovich noted.

He stressed that up to 500 young professionals and young workers come to the industry every year.

- We are happy and strive to create decent working conditions for everyone. Many of the young professionals are yesterday’s targets. And in recent years, we have seen a certain competition among applicants who want to enter the forest specialty in the target area. We're happy about that. How happy is the fact that more and more SSUZ begin to train specialists for forestry, the minister said. Read more about the personnel potential of the industry, key aspects in the issue of securing specialists and work plans of forestry enterprises in an interview with the Minister of Forestry Sergey Uldinovich in the Saturday issue of the newspaper "Respublika" and on the website sb.by.