Question 22818 — woods and forests

Summary

Ms. Bénédicte Taurine draws the attention of the Minister of Agriculture and Food to the difficulties encountered by owners of low-productivity forests in benefiting from State or European aid. One of the main criteria for awarding this aid is their effectiveness, which is characterized by the volume of wood mobilized in relation to the importance of the aid. But a simple glance at the service brochure the 2016 statistical forest inventory from the IGN indisputably shows a difference between the 3 southern regions and the rest of France. Even in Ariège there are properly managed forests whose productivity is around 2.5 m3/ha/year, for example on the dry hillsides of Mirepoix. It is quite obvious that when low productivity is due to the climate or the nature of the soil, investments in these forests only which we could call "poor" will never have the same effectiveness as for other forests: they are therefore seriously handicapped in benefiting from aid while they provide other substantial services for the community (soil fixation, water filtration, absorption of carbon dioxide, constitution of the landscape, etc.). While in many areas the community takes into account the constraints inherent to disabilities (accessibility measures for people with reduced mobility, Para-Olympic Games in parallel with the Olympic Games, specific measures for “disadvantaged areas” in agriculture) The MP is surprised that the same common sense is not required for wooded areas. She therefore asks him if he plans to create aid specifically intended for these low-productivity forests, which first requires defining it. the classification criteria (for example based on information held by the IGN: climate, terrain, source rocks, soil types, water level), the issues or objectives set for these forests and the specific policies which will be applied to them to achieve these objectives or if it prefers to ignore 15% of French forests.

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