Aid for reforestation and forest areas

Today, December 11, Order 178/2018, of December 3, was published in the DOCM, of the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Development, which establishes the regulatory bases for aid for reforestation and the creation of forest areas within the framework of the Castilla-La Mancha Rural Development Program 2014-2020.

The purpose of the aid

Their main objective is to contribute to the prevention of the risks of erosion and desertification, to help to regulate the hydrological regime, to promote the conservation of flora and fauna and, with this, to promote biodiversity, and as associated objectives the obtaining of forest products, the contribution to the mitigation of climate change and the diversification of agricultural activity, constituting in turn sources of income and employment.

Mycorrhized kercinea plantations with truffles will be subsidized on areas classified as Arable Land (TA) and with a slope of less than 8% located in the municipalities referred to in Annex I, with the exception of land not suitable for these afforestations.

Unmycorrhized oak plantations will also be subsidized, whose objective is the creation or densification of bonded areas on areas classified as Arable Land (TA), Wooded Grass (PA) and Grassland (PS) and plantations with other species on areas classified as Arable Land (TA) with a slope greater than or equal to 8%.

Not included

• Surfaces with rocky outcrops and/or with a small depth of soil.
• Plots in which their main stratum, arboreal, shrub and/or subshrub accounts for more than 20% of their covered area fraction.
• Areas with natural regeneration of native tree species, over 2 years old, when this proves viable and its density exceeds 100 plants per hectare, as well as other repopulated land.
• Agricultural land resulting from changes in the cultivation of forest land or other actions that have caused the elimination of the plant layer without the corresponding authorization.
• Public Utility Forests, and other forests whose forest management is the responsibility of the Regional Government of Castilla-La Mancha, in accordance with current regulations or a pact or contract.
• Mountains and lands belonging to the State.
• Land belonging to livestock routes.
• Surfaces whose forest cover has been destroyed by fires and other natural disasters.
• Areas that, due to their special configuration, allow only linear afforestation. Therefore, those that intend to be carried out following the longitudinal axis of a river bed, road, path and other terrain that has these characteristics are excluded. However, planting starting from six lines on one or both sides of the above-mentioned axes will be admissible.
• Land subject to power and telephone line easements or any other type that is incompatible with afforestation.
• Areas that are not considered as rustic land in accordance with current legislation.
• Land that has previously been covered by the agricultural land afforestation program.

The beneficiaries.

Public and private owners and their associations, property communities, local entities and other owners of agricultural and forest land and their associations.

Environmental Ideas can help you if you are going to request afforestation with species of mycorrhized querces, which require the presentation of a technical report that justifies the viability of the plantation and that establishes a schedule of the maintenance work considered appropriate.

In addition, we can also help you if you are asked for a technical project or complementary studies that JCCM consider relevant to determine, technically and economically, the characteristics of the works and works to be carried out

You can download here Order 178/2018, of December 3, of the Ministry of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Development, which establishes the regulatory bases for aid for reforestation and the creation of forest areas within the framework of the Rural Development Program of Castilla-La Mancha 2014-2020.