(HBO) – Hoa Binh province's Lac Son district has a total forestry area of 35,256 hectares, covering 60.7 percent of its natural land. Of the total area, 12,432.5 hectares has been put in the planning of special-use forest, along with 8,961 hectares of protective forest and 13,862.3 hectares of production forest. The ratio of forest coverage in the district is 53 percent.
Forest rangers in Lac Son conduct forest patrol in Vu Ban
town
Being aware of the significance of forest in socio-economic development, water
resources, environmental protection and climate change mitigation as well as
wood production and forestry product supply, over the past years, the
management and protection and well as the prevention of wildfire in Lac Son
district have seen good progress with only a small number of violation cases
and no hotspot in the field. The results are attributed to the drastic
management of the People’s Committees of the district as well as communes and
towns, the active consultations of the district ForestRanger Station, and
the close and responsible coordination of local authorities and forest owners.
With the aim of protecting the forests from the grassroots level, especially
the existing natural forest areas, right from the beginning of the year, the
People’s Committee of Lac Son district has directed relevant agencies, communes
and towns to apply urgent measures on forest management and forest fire
prevention, while strengthening communications in various forms to groups on
the significance of forest protection and development.
Local authorities have encouraged and persuaded local residents and forest
owners to plant large timber forests and switching small timer forests to large
timber forests in certain forest areas and planted forest areas in the
district. The district has also implemented the model of intensive large timber
forest plantation in Xuat Hoa commune.
Lac Son currently has 25 forestry varieties production and trading facilities
with 7 hectares of incubator, ensuring high quality varieties for forest
plantation. In the first six months of this year, the district planted 463.33
hectares of concentrated production forests, along with 14,800 scattered trees.
The locality harvested 475.26 hectares of concentrated planted forests with an
output of 22.5 c.m of wood and revenue of over 39.4 billion VND (1.71 million
USD).
The district has 498.7 hectares of forest receiving
ForestStewardship Council(FSC) licence in Tan My, Huong Nhuong,
Xuat Hoa, Binh Hem, and Yen Phu communes with good protection and
development./.
In Lac Thuy district, communes have been succeeded in promoting their One Commune-One Product (OCOP) products while others are still struggling to position their typical farming products in market. Some communes in the district still fail to have their products met OCOP programme’s requirements, while others have seen their certifications expired.
The inspectorate agency of Hoa Binh province has issued Official Dispatch No. 1090/TTr-PCTN to provincial departments, agencies, localities, business associations, enterprises, and investors regarding measures to improve informal component indexes of the Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI).
Hoa Binh is taking concrete steps to improve its investment environment, with a strong focus on supporting businesses, settling obstacles for strategic investors, and creating opportunities for robust development in the coming years.
Under the blazing early summer sun, the construction site of Nhuan Trach Industrial Park (IP) in Luong Son district is abuzz with activities from dawn to dusk, a testament to the determination of the investor to meet their construction targets on schedule.
