Provincial leaders work with Vietnam Rubber Industry Group

Attending the meeting, on behalf of the Provincial Party Committee, there were comrades Nguyen Xuan Son - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Nguyen Van Thong - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee. On behalf of the Vietnam Rubber Industry Group, there were Mr. Tran Ngoc Thuan - Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Group; Pham Trung Thai - Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nghe An Rubber Investment and Development Joint Stock Company.

Overview of the working session. Photo: Phu Huong

Nghe An Rubber Investment and Development Joint Stock Company is a member of Vietnam Rubber Industry Group, with the main business of planting, exploiting, processing and consuming rubber products. The company was approved by the People's Committee of Nghe An province to adjust the planning area of ​​rubber plantation in the three districts of Thanh Chuong, Anh Son and Que Phong to 8,947 hectares.

The Provincial Party Secretary affirmed that rubber is one of the key crops prioritized for development in the province. Photo: Phu Huong

By the end of 2018, the company's rubber garden area was 4,363.52 hectares, of which KTCB rubber care was over 4,266 hectares, nearly 100 hectares were put into exploitation; in 2019, it is expected to exploit an area of ​​216.07 hectares, the rubber productivity of the first year is expected to reach at least 900-1,000 kg/ha/year. The total number of official employees is 327 people.

Reporting at the meeting, Mr. Pham Trung Thai - Chairman of the Board of Directors of Nghe An Rubber Investment and Development Joint Stock Company pointed out some difficulties. Currently, the remaining 4,600 hectares of land according to the planning have not completed the site clearance work and are still under the management of organizations and individuals, leading to the company not having enough land area to plant rubber according to the approved planning, in 3 consecutive years from 2016 - 2018, it has not completed the new planting plan assigned by the Group.

Mr. Pham Trung Thai - Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nghe An Rubber Development Investment Joint Stock Company reported on the progress of rubber development project implementation in Nghe An province. Photo: Phu Huong

Mr. Tran Ngoc Thuan - Chairman of the Board of Directors of Vietnam Rubber Industry Group informed the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee about a number of areas and the results of the Group's activities in the past time. At the same time, he hoped that Nghe An province would create conditions for Nghe An Rubber Investment and Development Joint Stock Company to be handed over enough land area to plant new rubber trees and build processing factories as planned.

Mr. Tran Ngoc Thuan - Chairman of the Board of Directors of Vietnam Rubber Industry Group hopes that Nghe An province will create favorable conditions to hand over to the company enough land area for rubber planting according to the plan. Photo: Phu Huong

Speaking at the meeting, after listening to the leaders of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development report on the current difficulties and problems in the issue of site clearance to hand over enough land to the company according to the plan, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Dac Vinh stated: Despite difficult periods, rubber trees have always proven their economic efficiency, and Nghe An has always identified this as one of the key crops that need to be prioritized for development in the province.

The Secretary also affirmed: Developing rubber trees is a good direction in restructuring agriculture, both in economic development and contributing to ensuring social security; at the same time, he committed that the province will have appropriate measures to remove difficulties and obstacles, in order to hand over enough land area for the company to plant new trees according to the approved plan.

Rubber acreage in Thanh Duc commune, Thanh Chuong district has begun harvesting since 2018. Photo: Phu Huong

Comrade Nguyen Dac Vinh also suggested that currently in the province there are two large-capacity wood processing factories in Nghia Dan and Anh Son with a raw material demand of nearly 700,000 m3 of wood/year. Nghe An Rubber Investment and Development Joint Stock Company should have a plan to harvest rubber wood and sell raw materials to the two wood processing factories after the latex tapping cycle is over, thereby creating more favorable conditions in the process of developing raw material areas later.

Phu Huong