According to the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development's report, in 2024, the appropriate authorities regularly propagated and disseminated forest protection management, forest development, and forest fire prevention and fighting.

The Agricultural Production and Business
Cooperative 0789 of Thanh Hoi Commune (Tan Lac) ensures the production of good
quality forestry seedlings, serving the production and forest planting needs of
the people.
The management, inspection, supervision, and
strengthening the human and material resources to be ready to respond to forest
fires have been strengthened. Inspecting and supervising the forest product
processing and trading establishments have been carried out, guiding the
establishments to update the information on the origin, import and export of
forest products, and raising wild animals... in accordance with the
regulations.
The estimated value of the forestry
production at the comparable prices for the whole year is 1.32 trillion VND,
increasing 5.4% compared to that of the same period. Regarding forest planting,
the functional sector has urged the localities to implement the plan and
project targets on forest planting. During the year, in the whole province 9.07
thousand hectares of concentrated forests were planted, reaching 164% of the
plan and nearly 1.2 million scattered trees ưaas planted, reaching 132% of the
plan.
The units continued to monitor and manage
well 452 outstanding trees of all kinds; 0.26 hectares of parent tree gardens;
2.4 hectares of seed gardens; 20 hectares of transformed seed forests, all the
seed sources ensure the quality for harvesting materials for seed production.
Over 22 million seedlings for forest planting was produced in the whole
province, reaching 138% of the plan.
In forest exploitation activities, the
localities have exploited 11.3 thousand hectares of forest; exploited 439,000
ste of firewood; 3.43 million bamboo trees and 8.2 thousand tons of fresh
bamboo shoots of all kinds; about 930 tons of medicinal herbs and more than 4.9
tons of wild honey... The total income from forests of organizations and households
in the whole province is 1.162 billion VND.
Nguyen Phi Long, an alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Hoa Binh provincial Party Committee, and head of the steering committee for the province's key projects, chaired a conference on March 25 to discuss measures for implementing the project on constructing the Hoa Lac - Hoa Binh road and upgrading the Xuan Mai - Hoa Binh section of National Highway 6 under the public-private partnership (PPP) model.
Administrative reform has been identified as a key priority in enhancing state governance, improving the business environment, and facilitating services for citizens and enterprises.
The Standing Board of the Hoa Binh provincial Party Committee met on March 18 to review and guide major investment projects aimed at boosting local socio-economic development.
The air is thick with the hum of drills and the clatter of machinery as the Hoa Binh – Moc Chau expressway takes shape amid the rugged terrain. Welding sparks illuminate the faces of workers, and concrete mixers churn relentlessly, laying fresh pavement on the newly-carved road. The construction site buzzes with a palpable sense of urgency, particularly in Hoa Binh province where the expressway's future is being forged.
The northern province of Hoa Binh, with over 467,000 hectares of natural forest and more than 100,000 hectares of production forest, holds significant potential for carbon credit market development.
Replacing substandard houses with more sturdy ones by June 30 is the direction given by Nguyen Phi Long, alternate member of the Party Central Committee and Secretary of the Hoa Binh provincial Party Committee, at a meeting held in early March by the provincial Steering Committee for the programme to eliminate temporary and dilapidated houses for the needy.