A mountainous district in the central highlands’ Gia Lai province, the Kbang revolutionary land covers more than 184,000 hectares with 13 communes and one town. The Bahnar ethnic minority group accounts for nearly 40 percent of the 20 ethnic groups living in the area.
The northern province of Vinh Phuc is working towards the goal of sustainable and effective development of the forestry sector, thus enhancing incomes for stakeholders.
Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has asked the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance (VCA) to compile a “white book” on the country’s collective economy and cooperatives.
The agriculture sector posted a year-on-year growth of 2.39 percent in the first half of 2019, despite facing numerous difficulties like global economic slowdown, impacts from US-China trade war, unfavourable weather, and especially the African swine fever.
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong had a bilateral meeting in Hanoi on January 7 with Vice President of the European Parliament (EP) Heidi Hautala who is leading an EP working delegation to Vietnam from January 7-9.
Vietnam earns more than 9.3 billion USD from the export of forestry products in 2018, up 15.9 percent from last year, according to the Vietnam Administration of Forestry (VNFOREST).
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc advised the northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang to promote forestry economy while working with provincial authorities on February 26.
Vietnam and the EU concluded the second round of negotiations for a
bilateral forestry law enforcement, governance and trade voluntary
partnership agreement, in Hanoi on Nov. 25.
The northern mountainous province of Lai Chau has planted nearly
4,800 ha of forests during the 1998-2010 period, raising its forest
coverage from 35 percent in 2004 to 41 percent in 2010.
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