According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development,during the period, the entire nations prepared nearly 650 million saplings forafforestation, an annual increase of 43 percent.
To date, the rate of forest grown with certificated saplingshas reached 87 percent. The number of scattered trees planted for forestry purposestood at 38.6 million, while the volume of timber output was about 7.95 millioncubic metres, both up 5.7 percent annually.
Vietnam is working on a project to grow 1 billion treesnationwide between 2021 and 2025. They will include 690 million trees in urbanand rural areas, and 310 million others in protection, special-use, andproduction forests.
This project aims to protect the ecosystem, improve thescenery, respond to climate change, boost socio-economic development, improvethe quality of people's life, and foster the country’s sustainabledevelopment./.