Vietnam strives to raise forest coverage to 42 percent
To achieve sustainable forest development, the forestry sector has three tasks of protecting forests, enhancing forest productivity, and increasing the value and quality of forest production.
The forestry sector aims for at least 7.5 billion USD in export turnover and a 6.6 percent increase in production value in 2017, said Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Ha Cong Tuan.
Vietnam’s area of new concentrated forests hit 131,000ha in the first eight months of 2017, a rise of two percent year-on-year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Source: VNA
