(HBO) – In 2016, the agriculture extension centre of Hoa Binh province launched a project on developing a model for synchronously applying technical advances to planting fast-growing large-timber forests. This project covered 38ha of land with 20 households participating. After four years of implementation, up to 95-98 percent of the trees planted under this project have survived with even growth, height of 10-12m and trunks 15-20cm in diameter.

 

Bui Van Danh (right), a resident in Bin hamlet of Tu Ne commune (Tan Lac district), shares experience in planting fast-growing large-timber forests with other locals.

Planting large-timber forests is useful for saving seedling and care-related expenses while improving economic efficiency on a same area of cultivation (large-timber forests generate value three-four times higher than that of small-timber ones) and minimising pests and diseases on trees as well as land degradation.

To carry out the project in Tan Lac, the provincial agriculture extension centre provided seedlings for local households. The chosen varieties are BV10, BV16 and BV32 of Acacia hybrid.

Tan Lac district boasts huge potential for forestry development. The district has zoned more than 33,300ha of land for forestry, including over 25,000ha already under forest.

However, locals have yet to fully capitalise on the forestry development potential but just exploited young and small trees for raw materials and wood chips. Besides, their cultivation practices are out of date and mainly focus on extensive farming, instead of intensive farming and improving forest productivity and quality.

Basing on the provincial agriculture and rural development’s policy of converting small-timber forests into large-timber ones for more profit, authorities of Tan Lac have boosted communications to encourage people to adopt growing large-timber forests while sending staff from the district’s agricultural services centre and agriculture extension workers of local communes to monitor forest development.

As a result, local residents have gradually realised the importance of the intensive farming of large-timber forests and changed their practices. After nearly four years of project implementation, though the planted trees haven’t matured enough for exploitation, experts and locals said they have seen initial encouraging outcomes in planting fast-growing large-timber forests and believe that the practice will become profitable and help protect the environment./.

 


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