- Could you tell us about the current status of forestry development in Quang Ninh?
+ In recent years, the Party Committees and authorities at all levels of the province have issued and implemented many policies and solutions for forestry development. Quang Ninh is the first province to have a specialized resolution of the Provincial Party Committee on sustainable forestry economic development, green development, and circularity after the Forestry Law took effect in 2019.
From 2022 to present, the whole province has planted 4,017.1 hectares of lim, giổi, and lát, reaching 76.5% of the target of planting 5,000 hectares of lim, giổi, and lát by 2025. Of which, 2,288.8 hectares were planted in 2022, 1,078.3 hectares in 2023, and 650 hectares in 2024. The demand for registration to plant large timber trees and native trees in the period 2024-2026 of organizations, households, and individuals in the province continues to increase, about 5,000 hectares. District-level localities have completed the construction and approval of large timber zoning, with a total area of about 144,512 hectares. This is the basis for implementing policies to support the planting of large timber trees and native trees and the formation of large timber forests with high biodiversity.
- Could you tell us what is new in Resolution No. 37/2024/NQ-HDND compared to Resolution No. 337/2021/NQ-HDND?
+ The Resolution passed this time has many new breakthrough points and is expanded on support policies, subjects, conditions, support methods, funding sources to support large timber plantation, and support production under forest canopy in the province.
Specifically, the new resolution expands the scope of application to all 13 localities in the province (previously only applied on a pilot basis in 3 localities: Ha Long, Ba Che, Cam Pha); expands the subjects participating in the policy from households, individuals, to enterprises (except enterprises with foreign investment capital), cooperatives, units of the people's armed forces, cooperative groups (from 2 households, individuals participating or more), households, individuals in the province.
Regarding the policy to support large timber forest planting, the support level and content of financial support will be increased from "Support 100% of the cost of buying seedlings with a level not exceeding 15 million VND/ha" to "Support the cost of buying seedlings and care with a maximum support level not exceeding 20 million VND/ha"; support 400,000 VND/ha of funding for organizations, households and individuals to develop or hire consulting units for large timber forest planting plans and production under the forest canopy; increase the level of preferential loan support through the Bank for Social Policies from a maximum of not exceeding 20 million VND/ha to not exceeding 30 million VND/ha for planting large timber forests.
Along with that, to support households and individuals participating in planting large timber forests to improve their livelihoods, using short-term income to support long-term income during the period when there is no income from main crops, the resolution supplements the policy to support production under the forest canopy. In particular, a maximum support of no more than 10 million VND/ha of large timber forest will be provided for households and individuals to buy seedlings of non-timber forest products, medicinal plants planted under the canopy of large timber forests, or to buy livestock and poultry for breeding; preferential loans through the Bank for Social Policies at a level of no more than 30 million VND/ha calculated according to the area of people participating in planting large timber forests.
- When will the implementation of Resolution No. 37/2024/NQ-HDND begin, sir?
+ Immediately after Resolution No. 37/2024/NQ-HDND was issued, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development advised the Provincial People's Committee to direct departments, branches, district and commune People's Committees to organize propaganda and dissemination of policies to all civil servants, public employees, and workers in agencies, units; organizations and individuals in the province to fully understand the content of support policies according to the new resolution, ensuring the correct principles, scope, subjects, conditions, and support content. District and commune People's Committees organized training to implement the resolution, mobilized organizations, households, and individuals to respond and participate.
At the same time, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development also urgently coordinated with departments and branches to advise the Provincial People's Committee to issue regulations on the order of preparation, appraisal, approval and acceptance of large timber forest planting plans, production plans under forest canopy; regulations on management and exploitation of large timber forest planting areas to serve as a basis for departments, branches, district and commune People's Committees to implement the next steps. Coordinate with departments, branches and localities to develop inter-sectoral guidelines to guide district and commune People's Committees, households and individuals to implement policy contents according to Resolution No. 37/2024/NQ-HDND to ensure publicity, transparency, timeliness, correct subjects, correct regulations, in accordance with management decentralization and local practices. After the inter-sectoral guidelines are issued, the district and commune People's Committees will organize the reception of registration dossiers of the subjects and implement the next steps with a spirit of urgency, responsibility, compliance with regulations and in time for the forest planting season.
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