Initiative in surmounting difficulties

Bac Giang province soon issued a plan to implement this programme targeting to grow 30 million tress and 200 hectares of protective forests by 2025.

In recent years, the movement of growing scattered trees in the province has received active involvement by the government at all levels, related agencies and people. The province planted about 3 million trees of different types each year. Thus, the programme on growing 1 billion trees in the province has been smoothly implemented.

A household in Bo Ha town, Yen The district prepares seedlings for a new forest farming crop.

“The provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DOARD) has closely grasped situation of the localities to remove obstacle in implementation and directed the forest protection forces to advise the district-level government in reviewing the land fund, build and implement the plans. Besides, the Department recommended issuing documents of the provincial People’s Committee and directly issued several documents of the Department to boost the implementation progress”, according to Ha Minh Quy, DOARD Deputy Director.

Thanks to these efforts, the province planted 5.4 million trees of different types in 2021, reaching 108 percent of the set target. Specially, the province has mobilized fund from the people, organizations and enterprises with about 38 billion VND (1.65 million USD), equivalent to 536.9 percent of the target.

In line with positive results in growing scattered trees, the forestry companies and households proactively implemented the production plans on the allocated forestry land area. Besides, the competent agencies actively provided guidance to the forest owners to prepare land for growing woods and select good seedlings with clear origin meeting criteria to be planted.

As a result, the province planted more than 9,000 hectares of concentrated forests in 2021, reaching 125 percent of the yearly plan and increasing by 12.5 percent compared to the previous year including 58.7 hectares of protective and special-use forests and 8,900 hectares of production forests.

The movement to be continued

This year, the province will grow 6.1 million scattered trees and 130 hectares of protective forests following the implementation plan of the programme on growing 1 billion trees and more than 7,200 hectares of concentrated forests.

In October 2021, DOARD sent a correspondence to request the district-level people’s committees and the managing boards of special-use and protective forests to protect and support growing scattered trees in 2022.

The Department advised the provincial people’s committee with a directive document to implement the programme on growing 1 billion trees combined with the 2022 “Tet-tree planting” campaign in the province.

Yen The is one of the outstanding districts in growing forests and scattered trees. This year, the district will plant 600,000 scattered trees and more than 1,200 hectares of concentrated forests. According to a report, the local people have registered to plant 200,000 scattered trees.

Son Dong district was a leading locality in growing scattered trees in 2021. To promote this result, the district has made plan to launch the Tet-tree planting campaign on Lunar January 8, maintained and spread the movement to the grassroots contributing to fulfilling the tasks of managing, protecting and developing forests in 2022 of the district.

In the current context of climate change, green trees and forests play more important role in sustainable development. The new spring is coming. In response to the Tet-tree planting campaign initiated by Uncle Ho and the programme on growing 1 billion trees under the Prime Minister’s Directive, the local government and competent agencies will continue propagandizing on the purposes and meaning of this movement, build plans and well prepare for growing trees in the coming spring to start a successful tree and forest planting season.

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