Prospects for creation of harvesting complexes on basis of domestic construction and agricultural machines
The fall in the ruble exchange rate and the fall in demand for wood led to significant financial difficulties for logging companies. The situation was also affected by the abnormally warm winter of 2019—2020, as a result of which considerable amounts of harvested wood simply could not be exported. These situations aggravated the problems associated with the death of domestic forest engineering, and even more acutely raised the question of the need to create logging complexes based on domestic machines. In recent years, after the introduction of sanctions against Russia, our country localized the production of road and agricultural machines. Unfortunately, this has not been done for the forest engineering industry, which, in fact, has ceased to exist in Russia. For a relatively quick partial import substitution in forest engineering, it is advisable to use well-developed road and agricultural machines as basic machines, applying the principle of modular construction of complexes to them.