Status and influential factors of machinery used in forest operations in Slovenia from 2012 to 2021

Krč, Janez (author)

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.

• Language: English
• Keywords: forestry mechanisation, technological modernisation, subsidies, forest management, Slovenia
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: BF - Biotechnical Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.01.2025
• Year: 2025
• Number of pages: Str. 21-28
• Numbering: Vol. 46
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-177178
• UDC: 630*36:630*9
• ISSN on article: 1845-8815
• DOI: 10.5552/nms.2025.3
• COBISS.SI-ID: 261818627
• Publication date in RUL: 17.12.2025

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Nova mehanizacija šumarstva
• Shortened title: Nova meh. šumar.
• Publisher: Hrvatske šume, Šumarski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Šumarski institut.
• ISSN: 1845-8815
• COBISS.SI-ID: 1715366

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Croatian
• Title: Stanje i utjecajni čimbenici strojeva korištenih u šumskim operacijama u Sloveniji od 2012. do 2021. godine
• Keywords: gozdna mehanizacija, tehnološka modernizacija, subvencije, gospodarjenje z gozdovi, Slovenija

Projects

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: V4-2209-2022
• Name: NAČRTOVANJE TEHNOLOGIJ IN PRESOJA KAKOVOSTI IZVAJANJA DEL V GOZDOVIH V PODPORO BIOGOSPODARSTVU

• Funder: ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
• Project number: P4-0430-2022
• Name: Gozdno-lesna veriga in podnebne spremembe: prehod v krožno biogospodarstvo