Nghe An aims to plant more than 17,500 hectares of new raw material forests

Bustling spring forest planting

Right from the 6th day of Lunar New Year, on the hillsides of Tien Thanh commune,Yen ThanhPeople are busy planting forests, some carrying seedlings, others digging the roots of trees. Mr. Tran Tuan in Tay Bac Tien hamlet, Tien Thanh commune, who is planting forests, said: Right from the time of Tet, we have processed the ground cover, dug holes, and after Tet, we have deployed to hire workers to plant 5 hectares of spring forest. It is expected that in about 10 days, the area of ​​raw material forest will be planted.

Mr. Phan Van Vu - Chairman of Tien Thanh Commune People's Committee said: Tien Thanh is a semi-mountainous commune with favorable conditions for growing raw material forests. Realizing that afforestation is an effective direction in economic development, poverty reduction, and even becoming a path to wealth, the annual afforestation plan is always actively responded to by the locality and people.

Bustling spring forest planting in Tien Thanh commune, Yen Thanh. Photo: Van Truong.

Right after Tet, on the 6th day of Tet, people started planting forests; currently, the whole commune has planted over 50/200 hectares of spring material forests. According to the plan, around March 2021, the whole commune will finish planting spring forests, bringing the total area of ​​raw material forests to over 800 hectares. However, the current difficulty is that there is no "forestry" road, so transporting materials and seedlings is mainly done manually, such as carrying, carrying... which is very difficult.

Mr. Le Van Hong - Head of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Yen Thanh district added: In 2022, the province assigned Yen Thanh to plant 1,500 hectares of forest, however, the district will plant over 2,000 hectares (exceeding 500 hectares). During Tet, the district has prepared the conditions for forest planting, 100% of the area has completed the vegetation treatment, and prepared about over 2 million quality seedlings of all kinds.

Up to this point, the whole district has planted 600 hectares of spring forest, according to the plan, by the end of March 2022, over 800/2,000 hectares of spring forest will be planted. To workspring afforestationTo ensure quality, before Tet, Yen Thanh District People's Committee established an inspection team to check the seed records, seed origin, and inventory the nursery work at seedling production facilities before leaving the garden.

Preparing seed glue in Tan Huong commune, Tan Ky. Photo: Van Truong.

Technical staff of the Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Extension Station coordinate with the communes to guide people on the technical process of planting and caring for raw material forests. However, the current difficulty is that the district has not yet been able to deploy large areas of timber forest planting, and the price of acacia has decreased in the past year, so some areas have been converted to planting other trees...

At this time, people in Tan Ky district are also actively planting spring forests. According to the report of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Tan Ky district. In 2022, the province plans to assign over 1,700 hectares of raw material forests, but Tan Ky will plant 2,000 hectares.

Up to now, the above areas have completed the process of vegetation and digging holes, and the communes have planted over 300 hectares of spring forest.

Transporting seedlings for spring forest planting in Do Luong. Photo: Van Truong

These days, Song Hieu Agriculture and Forestry Company is implementing spring forest planting in all districts of Quy Hop, Quy Chau, Que Phong... This year, this unit planted over 700 hectares of raw material forest. To facilitate the forest planting work, from the beginning of the year, the unit mobilized excavators, bulldozers, and repaired hundreds of kilometers of raw material roads. Thanks to that, it is very convenient for transporting forest planting materials. Up to this point, 100% of the area has been dug by machine, and over 30 hectares of acacia have been planted.

Target to plant more than 17,500 hectares of new forest

According to the report of the Forestry Department, in 2022, Nghe An aims to plant more than 17,500 hectares of new raw material forests to meet the needs of wood processing factories in the area. This year's spring crop alone, the whole province will plant 6,500 hectares (of which about 500 hectares are planted with large timber forests). Currently, localities are actively planting spring forests to ensure progress, up to this point, more than 1,500 hectares of spring forests have been planted, and spring forest planting will be completed by the end of March 2022.

Spring forest planting in Nghia Dan district. Photo: Van Truong

In the province, production units, establishments and people have prepared over 5 million seedlings of various types for spring forest planting. The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has established a team to control the quality of forestry seedlings before they leave the nursery. To ensure good conditions for forest planting, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development requires districts and communes to stay close to the area and coordinate to guide forest planters on technical procedures. Regarding policy mechanisms, people mainly invest their own capital to plant raw material forests, some districts proactively support tree seedlings for people.

Aboutlarge timber plantationis still facing difficulties, currently has not been able to allocate support of 5 million VND/ha for planting large timber forests. Planting large timber forests requires care and protection time at least twice as long as planting small timber forests, leading to a long exploitation and recovery process, so it has not attracted many businesses to combine planting large timber forests and signing consumption contracts.

It is known that Song Hieu Agricultural and Forestry Company invests quite a lot in intensive forest planting, over 20 million VND/ha, including money for seeds, fertilizers and care, while many localities only invest 1.5-2 million VND/ha. In terms of economics, for large timber forests after about 10 years of planting, they can harvest 180-250 m3 of wood/ha, 2-3 times higher than the current planted forests.

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