Based on natural and social conditions, and at the same time effectively implementing the Government's policies, Tuyen Quang province has issued a Resolution on sustainable forestry development for the period 2021 - 2030. In Ham Yen, the Resolution of the 21st District Party Congress, term 2020-2025, identified the breakthrough as "Building a new rural district associated with effective and sustainable development of commodity agriculture and forestry, focusing on a number of key and advantageous products".
Ham Yen district has many strengths in forestry economic development. Currently, Ham Yen district has a total natural land area of 90,054.61 ha. The forested area is 61,438.61 ha (natural forest is 19,114.43 ha; planted forest is 42,324.18 ha); Special-use forest is 5,269.85 ha; protection forest is 8,070.94 ha; production forest is 48,097.82 ha; forest cover rate is over 58.8%.
Up to now, the output of exploited timber from planted forests in Ham Yen is 309,212.5m3 (an increase of 11.2% of the plan, an increase of 17.8% compared to 2023), with an area of 2,600 ha (an increase of 13% of the plan, an increase of 8.3% compared to 2023). The district organized the provision of seedlings and forest planting in 2024 according to Resolution No. 03/2021/NQ-HDND of the Provincial People's Council, achieving the set plan, planting and accepting 1,000.4 ha/1,000.4 ha and reviewing the report on the need for support for forestry seedlings in 2025 in accordance with regulations. Converting small timber plantations to large timber forests of 602ha, cumulatively 15,221ha; The organization assessed and granted FSC forest certification for 5,358.61 hectares (Yen Phu commune: 1,839.42 hectares; Yen Lam commune: 3,519.19 hectares). The total area of planted forests in the district that has been granted FSC certification is 14,548.47 hectares, of which: Organizations 4,168.61 hectares and households 10,379.86 hectares.
The family of Mr. Hoang Van Soc, Cay Queo village, Hung Duc commune is one of the households that got rich from the forest with nearly 12 hectares. In recent years, the value of the forest has increased sharply, the family has earned more than 120 million VND/year from planting forests. The family's life has become more prosperous, the old wooden stilt house has been replaced by a spacious concrete stilt house with full amenities. Currently, Cay Queo village has over 150 hectares of production forest of 51 households, each year bringing in 5 - 7 billion VND in income from planted forest wood. The forest economy is gradually helping the Dao people escape poverty sustainably.
With a large area of production forests, this is a potential strength for developing the forestry economy. In recent years, in Ham Yen district, the forestry economy has played an important role in the economy, creating jobs for workers and increasing sustainable income for people. Ham Yen has actively promoted and changed the limitations in awareness for forest owners and people in forestry production activities; the forest area of many households is still fragmented and small, not bringing high economic value, not attracting a large number of people to participate in sustainable forest management.
After gaining the right awareness, forest owners and people have proactively changed, learned how to protect the environment when planting and caring for forests; approached new farming techniques according to international standards and focused on developing large timber forests. Currently, each hectare of forest planted according to FSC standards brings in 15-20% higher income than conventional forest planting and the health of forest planters is also guaranteed because they do not have to use chemical pesticides.
In 2024, the Ham Yen District Forest Protection and Development Project Management Board coordinated with the People's Committees of communes, towns and seedling suppliers to support seedlings for production forest planting in 2024 for households and individuals in the district. This year, more than 1,000 hectares in the district were supported with seedlings of tissue-hybrid Acacia, foreign-seeded Acacia mangium, and grafted White Canarium. The implementation of forest planting support by transplanting high-quality seedlings in the district has been approved and supported by the people. The seedlings grow well, have high resistance to pests and diseases, and are resistant to lodging, thereby increasing productivity, value, and income for forest growers, contributing to promoting local economic development.
In the coming time, Ham Yen will continue to strengthen the direction of agencies, units, People's Committees of communes and towns to strengthen propaganda work to raise awareness of responsibility in forest protection and development; disseminate knowledge of applying science and technology to forest business and policies to support forestry economic development to people, such as: Granting FSC forest certification; supporting high-quality seedlings, converting large timber plantations according to Resolution No. 03/2021/NQ-HDND dated July 16, 2021 of the People's Council of Tuyen Quang province on policies to support the development of agricultural, forestry and fishery production; OCOP products and new rural construction in Tuyen Quang province in the period of 2021-2025.
In addition, strictly manage the production and trading of forestry seedlings, especially acacia in the area; resolutely inspect, prevent and strictly handle violations according to regulations. At the same time, there is a mechanism to attract investment in developing the forest product processing industry in the district, in order to create jobs and increase the value of planted forests.
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