Tuyen Quang fulfills afforestation plan for whole year

The northern province of Tuyen Quang has planted 12,323 hectares of forest, exceeding its 2017 plan by nearly 1,200 hectares, raising forest coverage to 60 percent, one of the highest rates in the country.
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TuyenQuang (VNA) – The northern province of Tuyen Quang has planted 12,323hectares of forest, exceeding its 2017 plan by nearly 1,200 hectares, raising forest coverage to60 percent, one of the highest rates in the country.

With theresult, Tuyen Quang has completed its yearly forest planting plan two months aheadof schedule.

Along withdirecting forestry plantations and nurseries to prepare saplings to ensuresupply ahead of the tree planting season, the province has also zoned 209,400hectares for growing material trees for local wood processing and paperfactories.

At the sametime, Tuyen Quang has mobilised financial resources from different economicsectors for developing production forest in parallel with preserving protectionforest to prevent flood.

Theprovince has also encourage locals to engage in afforestation, while grantingforest use rights for 50 years to households and providing them with tree saplingsfor planting.

Tuyen Quangcurrently has nearly 435,000 hectares of forest land, accounting for 76 percentof its total natural land. According to the province’s forest planning,special-use forests will cover 47,000 hectares, protection forests - 212,6000hectares and production forests - over 266,422 hectares.

In recentyears, forest has played an important role in the locality’s poverty reductionas well as disaster prevention.

In 2017,Tuyen Qyang plans to exploit over 9,750 hectares of planted forest for 844,000cubic metres of wood.-VNA
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