Abstract:

The article substantiates that development of forest complex of the Russian economy is not possible without implementation of its structural reform and emphasizes diversification of forestry as the most important sectoral segment. An assessment of the level of diversification of the most important areas of forest complex made it possible to draw a conclusion about low level of its diversification. It has been established that woodworking and deep wood processing sectors are characterized by high diversification, logging is distinguished by specialization with delayed diversification, and forestry is a low diversified branch. The prerequisites for diversification of forest complex are developed, including: disproportions in the development of technological chain - forestry-logging - woodworking; technological, territorial and economic disconnection of forestry, logging and processing enterprises and industries; infrastructure and economic barriers; low level of development of science and industrial innovation at all stages of technologically related industries. The specific nature of diversification in forestry complex is in incompleteness of the processes of horizontal integration in forestry. It is determined that diversification in forestry reduces the time of cultivation of target timber and reduces costs of growing forest. Positive direction of diversification in the country's forestry complex is creation of industrial forest plantations on forest lands.