Nghe An: Building technology types to improve the quality of forestry varieties

Comrade Nguyen Van De - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee spoke at the workshop. Photo: Van Truong

On the morning of December 19, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development organized a workshop on "Building types of technology applied in the production and supply cycle"forestry varietieshigh-tech application, belonging to the North Central High-Tech Forestry Zone". Comrade Nguyen Van De - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired the workshop.

According to the report of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Nghe An is the province with the largest forest and forestry land area in the country, with about over 1.16 million hectares. In recent times, Nghe An has managed and protected the existing forest area well; The area of ​​newly planted forests is on average over 18,000 hectares/year. The whole province currently has 25 seed production and trading units, producing 30-35 million forestry seedlings of all kinds each year.

The implementation of forestry seed management in Nghe An province has achieved certain results. Organizations, individuals, households producing seeds to forest growers have been aware of the use of good seeds, quality seeds to put into production. For example, the functional subdivision of the High-tech Forestry Seed Production Center in Nghi Lam commune, Nghi Loc district with a scale of over 48 hectares is currently investing in construction of project items.

Delegates attending the workshop. Photo: Van Truong

However, the issue of forestry seeds in Nghe An still has limitations such as: small-scale production and trading of forestry seeds, many establishments do not register seed production activities with the State management agency; seed sources are not invested in, cared for, managed, and protected.

At the workshop, delegates focused on analyzing the shortcomings and limitations in the management of forestry seed production and trading such as: Production technology only focuses on sowing seeds and cuttings. The number of seed sources and nurseries has not been invested in, cared for, managed, or protected. Many facilities have not registered seed production activities with the State management agency, making it difficult to control seed quality.

Thereby, the conference proposed solutions to improve the quality of forestry varieties such as: Applying scientific and technical advances in seed production, improving management capacity of forest planting varieties for seed production units; Strengthening inspection and control of seed origin...

Concluding the workshop, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Van De affirmed: Forestry varieties play a very important role in afforestation activities. Seedling work is the key issue that determines the quality and productivity of planted forests. Therefore, in the coming time, the agricultural sector, localities and units need to focus on removing difficulties and obstacles, soon completing and putting into operation the sub-area of ​​the High-tech Forestry Seed Production Center -High-tech forestry zone in the North Central regioninto operation.

Transporting seedlings for forest planting in Nghia Dan. Photo: Van Truong

Localities should further strengthen the management of production and trading of plant varieties, closely manage all stages of the production chain; Strengthen propaganda for people on the use of good varieties and varieties with clear origins; Have priority policies for training technical human resources in the fields of vegetative seed production and cell tissue culture, seed forest management, seed testing, seed preservation and other work related to forestry varieties./.