The forestry sector will protect, develop and sustainably use existing forest areas and land fund for forest development with a view to raising the country’s forest coverage to 47.25 percent in 2017.
Hanoi (VNA) – The forestry sector will protect, develop and sustainably useexisting forest areas and land fund for forest development with a view toraising the country’s forest coverage to 47.25 percent in 2017.
This is one of the focal tasks of the sector during 2017 put forth at aconference held by the Vietnam Administration of Forestry (VNFOREST) under theMinistry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) on December 19 in Hanoi.
Next year, thesector also targets an increase of 6.2-6.5 percent in the forestry productionvalue and a forest product export value of 7.3-7.5 billion USD.
It also aims to raise productivity, quality and promote the value of each typeof forest while ensuring sufficient raw materials for wood processing, paperproduction, thus meeting the demand for timber and other forest products athome and abroad.
Nguyen Bai Ngai,deputy head of the VNFOREST, said the sector completed four out of six forestprotection and development goals in 2016. The two missing goals were concentratedforest planting (96 percent of the target) and forest protection using theState budget (62 percent of the plan).
The forestry productionvalue in 2016 is estimated to up 6.5 percent and the wood export value isexpected to hit 7.3 billion USD. The output of concentrated forest reaches 17.3million cu.m, exceeding the yearly plan by 23.6 percent.
MARD Deputy Minister Ha Cong Tuan said the sector needs to take more drasticand creative measures to address existing problems such as deforestation,illegal transportation and storage of forest products.
The sector shouldfocus on restructuring by forming value chain, boosting connectivity betweenforest owners and wood processors, and reorganising forestry companies, hesaid.
🌄 He stressed the need for a domestic supply chain with the formation of threehi-tech forestry zones which house support industry for wood processing andintroduce local forest products.-VNA
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IIllustrative image (Source: VNA)
