According to the Office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development at the Reviewing Conference 2019, deploying the key task in 2020, Mr. Pham Van Dien, Deputy Director General of the General Department of Forestry, said basically in 2019 the forestry sector complete the assigned plan targets.
Specifically, the growth rate of forestry production value in 2019 reached 5%, the forest coverage rate was about 41.85%, an increase of 0.2% compared to 2018, planted over 239 million hectares of forest, reaching over 112%. plan, planting 63.5 million dispersed trees, reaching nearly 108% of the plan, exploiting forest timber with an output of 19.5 million tons.
In particular, in 2019, the export value of wood and forest products reached 11.2 billion USD, reaching 107% compared to the plan of 10.5 billion USD, up 20% compared to 2018.
At present, Vietnam's forest product exports are largely based on the US and China markets, of which exports to the US account for approximately 51% and China 10.5% of the country's total forest product export value. .
In 2020, VNFOREST aims for a national forest cover of 42%. The growth rate of forestry production value reaches from 5 to 5.5%. Export value of forest products reached 12.5 billion USD, up 10% compared to 2019; concentrated forest exploitation has reached 20.5 million m3 …
In the context that the US-China trade war continues to be unstable, there are potential unpredictable risks to Vietnam's forest product export, which requires the forestry sector to actively capture and learn to 2020. There are decisions and strategies to adjust accordingly.
At the same time, VNFOREST will deploy programs and projects approved by the Government, especially the effective implementation of the Prime Minister's Directive No. 08 / CT-TTg on a number of tasks and solutions. solutions for fast and sustainable development of the wood and NTFP processing industry for export.
In addition, VNFOREST also organized a good implementation of the Voluntary Partnership Agreement on Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (VPA / FLEGT); institutionalize commitments, improve the capacity of stakeholders to effectively implement the Agreement, especially to effectively propagate and disseminate information about the Agreement to the business community and households. Family afforestation as well as the whole society.
According to Deputy Minister Ha Cong Tuan, in 2020, VNFOREST should focus on completing the National Forest Planning, submit to the Government a draft Vietnam Forestry Development Strategy for the period of 2021 – 2030, a vision to 2045 and Chapter Public investment process for sustainable forestry development in the period 2021 – 2025
