Promoting sustainable forest management certification

Doan Hung is one of the localities with large forest and forestry land areas in the province with over 13,000 hectares, accounting for nearly 50% of the district's natural land area. In recent times, Doan Hung has made efforts to implement many solutions to exploit and promote the strengths of forestry development, increase productivity, forest economic value, and improve people's income, including the assessment and certification of sustainable forest management (FSC).

Forest rangers propagate and mobilize people of Tay Coc commune to register for FSC certification to increase the economic value of forestry.

FSC certification brings many benefits to the people, the value of wood is increased, and income per unit area is increased. However, the implementation process still has many difficulties, the progress of forest certification is slow, not commensurate with the potential of the district. Up to now, the whole Doan Hung district has only about 300 hectares of large timber forests of forestry companies that are FSC certified, and no area of ​​production forests of the people has been certified.

The main reasons are due to people's production practices, seed quality, investment and care processes that do not meet forest management standards; the area of ​​production forests of people is small, the area of ​​forestry land without certificates of land use rights is still common, causing difficulties in inspection and management...

With the goal of raising the level of planted forest wood, in 2024, Doan Hung district will promote the implementation of many solutions to support the granting of FSC certification for planted forest areas in the area. The district has coordinated and created conditions for Hoang Dai Vuong Company Limited to cooperate with households in 9 communes to implement FSC certification contents with a screened area of ​​about 1,800 hectares. The granting of FSC certification will help people's planted forest wood to be signed to purchase at a higher price than the market price, and processed wood products will be exported to foreign countries.

Representative of the Northern Forest Development Cooperative in Phu Tho region (Hoang Dai Vuong Company Limited), Mr. Vu Van Hue informed: “The process of issuing sustainable forest certificates in Doan Hung district has been very favorable. We have received attention and support from authorities at all levels in mobilizing forest owners to register for the implementation of sustainable forest management models, and support from the people. Up to now, propaganda and dissemination work has been promoted, helping people to be aware of the practical benefits of planting forests according to FSC requirements, thanks to which the majority of households in the communes have pioneered in registering. At the same time, the production forest area of ​​the district is located in low hills, so it is convenient for management and monitoring of activities in compliance with sustainable forest management. We are continuing to coordinate to review maps and fieldwork to expand the area of ​​​​certification registration, moving towards establishing groups of households, cooperatives, and accelerating the implementation progress to complete the contents of the process. FSC according to the proposed plan".

In the process of implementing FSC certified forest development, in addition to local attention and close coordination between businesses and forest growers, the district Forest Protection Department is also one of the active and effective supporting forces in propaganda and mobilization work.

Comrade Tran Quoc Toan - Head of the Forest Protection Department of Doan Hung district said: "Recognizing the effectiveness of forest production according to FSC standards on people's lives, we consider this one of the top priority tasks. The unit always assigns officers in charge of the area to each plot and each plot to guide forest owners to properly implement the principles, do a good job of fire prevention, fire fighting, forest protection, and explain to people to clearly understand the province's support policies for this program so that people can highly agree. The encouraging thing is that forest growers are very interested and proactive, actively participating in forest production according to new standards. All of them want to increase productivity and output per unit area, while contributing to protecting the ecological environment and sustainable development."

Based on the awareness of the many benefits that FSC afforestation brings in terms of economy, business brand, environment, society... in the coming time, the district will continue to create conditions, attract businesses to invest, support forest growers in granting certificates. Along with that, improve productivity and value of planted forest wood along with protecting, preventing and fighting forest fires; expand the market for planted forest products, form a chain of forest products, create stable output for planted forest products.

Le Oanh

Source: https://baophutho.vn/day-manh-cap-chung-chi-quan-ly-rung-ben-vung-222026.htm