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The Government of Georgia adopts the State inventory program on a wind break belt
The Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia has drafted the “State inventory program on a wind break belt”, which entails inventory – identification efforts on an existing wind break belts in Georgia, as well as their registration into the Public Registry.Within the program, existing wind break belts will be identified and documented, in order to determine timber plants’ types on the respective territories. These efforts will ensure registration, rehabilitation, recovery/cultivation of the wind break belts. The program entails inventory of green plantation belts, as well as those locations which have been fully or partially destroyed; it will also cover those locations, which can be asserted through state registries/documents to have been partially or fully operational wind break belts.
The core function of wind break belts is to resist to wind erosion of soil, as well as sustain fertility of the land. Long-term degradation of the land will negatively affect rural-agricultural function of a soil and requires additional efforts to make the latter fertile again.
The efforts within the program will be delivered by the National Agency for Sustainable Land Management and Land Use Monitoring, in coordination with the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia. As a coordinated and consistent effort, inventory of the wind break belts will be launched in 2021 and will commence by 2025. In 2021, inventory efforts will be deployed to the selected municipalities of the Kakheti region.