PM gives green light to 1-billion-tree growing project

The Prime Minister has issued a decision approving a project on growing 1 billion trees in Vietnam during the 2021 – 2025 period.
PM gives green light to 1-billion-tree growing project ảnh 1Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – The Prime Minister has issued a decision approving a project on growing 1 billion trees in Vietnam during the2021 – 2025 period.

According to the project, of the 1 billion trees to beplanted by the end of 2025, 690 million will be grown in urban andrural areas, and 310 million planted in protected, special, and productionforests.

The project aims to protect the ecosystem, improve the scenery,respond to climate change, boost socio-economic development, improve thequality of people's life and foster the sustainable growth of the country.

As per the project, the target for 2021 is 182 million trees,with an average of 204.5 million trees to be planted each year in the 2022-2025 period.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has beentasked to be in charge of the work and cooperate with the Ministry ofConstruction, the Ministry of Natural Resource and Environment, and authoritiesof centrally-run provinces and cities to build related annual and five-year plans./.

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