Spring forest planting is bustling in Nghe An

Preparing seedlings for spring forest planting in Nghia Dan district. Photo: Van Truong

Right from the 5th day of Lunar New Year, along the hills in Nghia Loc commune, Nghia Dan district, people are urgently planting forests. Some dig holes, others prepare seedlings.

Ms. Tran Thi Hieu in Nghia Loc commune, Nghia Dan district, who is cultivating acacia trees, said: To prepare for spring forest planting, before Tet we started to treat the ground cover, dig holes, and after Tet we hired more workers to plant 3 hectares of spring forest. In the area near the road, we even built a fence to protect buffaloes and cows from damaging it.

The new feature of people in Nghia Loc commune, Nghia Dan district is mostly focused on intensive forest planting, such as digging holes combined with fertilizing, planting seeds to ensure quality and proper care.

Spring forest planting in Tan Ky district. Photo: Van Truong

Mr. Lai Van Duong - Chairman of Nghia Loc Commune People's Committee said: Nghia Loc is a commune with conditions for planting raw material forests with 150 hectares of acacia forests. Realizing that planting forests is an effective direction in economic development, poverty reduction, and even enrichment, the annual forest planting plan is always actively responded by the locality and people. Up to now, people have planted 30/150 hectares of spring forest.

Mr. Lam Van Thang - Head of the Department of Agriculture of Nghia Dan district added: In 2024, the province assigned the district to plant 1,000 hectares, in this year's spring crop alone, the district planted over 400 hectares, up to this point the district has planted over 100 hectares of spring forest, most of the forest planting area, people have processed the ground cover and dug holes to prepare for the forest planting work to keep up with the progress.

Digging holes to plant forests in Tan Ky district. Photo: Van Truong

In addition, at this time, Song Hieu Agricultural Forestry One Member Co., Ltd. is the unit that is planting large timber forests with the largest area in the province. Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Hoang - Chairman of the Board of Directors of Song Hieu Agricultural Forestry One Member Co., Ltd. said: This year, the unit planted over 600 hectares of raw acacia (mainly planting large timber forests), of which 100/400 hectares have been planted in the spring crop, and it is expected that the remaining 300 hectares of spring crop will be planted around March 15.

To improve the productivity and quality of acacia, the unit has focused on investing in the right technical process right from the beginning of planting, such as investing over 20 million VND/ha of forest, including fertilizer, digging holes, quality-assured seed components including hybrid acacia (BV10 and BV16 strains) and Acacia mangium (imported strain according to the instructions of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development).

Do Luong Forestry One Member Co., Ltd.'s tree varieties ensure quality for spring forest planting. Photo: Van Truong

Currently, many nurseries in Do Luong are ready to supply quality forest acacia seedlings. Mr. Phan Hong Tien - Director of Do Luong Forestry One Member Co., Ltd. said: The unit currently has 2 nurseries, currently producing over 1 million acacia seedlings, serving spring forest planting for people in Do Luong district and some communes of Yen Thanh district. The unit's seed production is applied according to technical requirements, seedlings must meet the standard of 30cm high, 0.3cm in diameter to be sold for planting, ensuring a high survival rate.

According to the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Do Luong district, in 2024, Do Luong district was assigned to plant over 600 hectares of acacia. Currently, the communes have planted over 120 hectares, and the remaining area of over 300 hectares of spring forest is being processed, digging holes to plant trees. At the same time, the district assigned technical staff to the grassroots to urge, train and guide the technical process of forest planting in the communes. From clearing, processing the ground cover to digging holes, fertilizing and caring for the trees, all were carried out in accordance with the correct process and technique.

Preparing seedlings for planting in Do Luong district. Photo: Van Truong

According to the report of the Forestry Department, in 2024, Nghe An aims to plant more than 18,500 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 8,000 hectares (of which about 500 hectares are planted with large timber forests). Currently, localities are actively planting spring forests to ensure progress, having planted more than 1,500 hectares of spring forests, and will finish planting spring forests by the end of March 2024.

The province currently has 25 units producing and trading seeds (with business registration certificates), which have produced 10 million forestry seedlings of various types for spring planting. In order to ensure the quality of seedlings, the Forestry Department recommends that localities further strengthen the management of seed production and trading, strictly manage all stages of the production chain; people use good seeds, seeds with clear origins...

The Forest Protection Department recommends that people replant forests immediately after exploitation, not leaving bare land to ensure the year's forestation plan. Localities assign staff to be in charge of the base, supervise the forestation work, and manage and protect forests to bring about efficiency in the spring forestation work in the area.

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