Izvorni znanstveni članak
https://doi.org/10.5552/nms.2025.3
Status and Influential Factors of Machinery Used in Forest Operations in Slovenia from 2012 to 2021
Janez Krč
orcid.org/0000-0001-6561-6373
; University of Ljubljana Biotechnical Faculty Department for Forestry and Renewable Forest Resources Večna pot 83 1000, Ljubljana SLOVENIA
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Sažetak
The volume of wood harvested (felling) and forest policy measures (subsidies) are among the factors considered to be important in influencing the equipment used in forestry operations and indicating the level of development of forestry technologies at the regional, national and international levels. An analysis of the dynamics of the equipment (state of equipment) used for forestry operations in Slovenia was carried out. The data were obtained from the publicly available database of the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, which collects data on the equipment of forestry companies in Slovenia on an annual basis. The analysis showed that for most machinery, there is a weak negative correlation between the volume of felling and the number of units of forestry machinery and equipment (except for timber transport machinery). Further clarification of the impact on the dynamics of the number of forestry machines was carried out by analysing the subsidies distributed under the EU call for proposals for the Rural Development Programme (RDP) (2014 – 2020). The structure of the subsidies distributed in terms of application number and amount of funds is weakly to moderately positively correlated with the variation in the number of each type of machinery, indicating a steady increase in mechanisation, accelerated by the system of subsidies to co-finance the equipment of forestry operators. The main difference observed over the analysed period is the increasing use of exports in timber harvesting and the use of Cut-to-Length (CTL) technology, which is mainly attributable to the high proportion of salvage and sanitation logging following weather disasters.
Ključne riječi
forestry mechanisation, technological modernisation, subsidies, forest management, Slovenia
Hrčak ID:
341430
URI
Datum izdavanja:
16.12.2025.
Posjeta: 316 *