The wood processing industry in Tuyen Quang province has attracted investments from many large businesses, thanks to which timber products of the province have been consumed all over the world.
Millions of cubic meters of planted forest timber are annually exploited
Up to now, Tuyen Quang province has over 190,000ha of planted forest material area, of which the large timber plantation area is over 76,500 ha. Every year, this locality planted over 11,000ha of new forest with an output of over 1 million m3 of timber (leading in the country in terms of exploitation output).
In particular, Tuyen Quang currently has over 36,900ha of planted forests certified for sustainable forest management (the highest in the country) and the forest coverage rate is always maintained at over 65% (ranked third in the country).
With forest advantages, the province has issued many effective forestry economic development policies. Most notably, it has deployed open policy mechanisms to attract investment.
Along with 8 large wood processing factories, more than 300 small forest product processing establishments have been invested by enterprises, cooperatives and households. These are important satellites of large wood processing plants.
The Woodsland Tuyen Quang Joint Stock Company is one of the leading units in the country’s wood processing and exporting activities. Woodsland’s customers are the world’s leading retail groups such as IKEA (Sweden), Home Depot and Walmart (USA), Tilling (Australia) and others. Woodsland’s revenue in 2021 was over VND2,000 billion.
Currently, the company has been associating and cooperating with partners including 5 limited companies and 10 groups of households to implement the sustainable forest management plan on an area of 28,051ha of forests granted forest certificates since 2015.
General Director of Woodsland Joint Stock Company, said that since the enterprise developed the project of a wood processing factory and raw material area in Tuyen Quang province, it has always attracted interest from the provincial People’s Committee and the agriculture and rural development sector with specific policies for sustainable forest development. They include Resolution 03 on supporting high quality seedlings, the sustainable forestry development project for the period 2021-2030, with a vision to 2035, mechanisms and contents related to development, planning of large timber plantations and expansion of forest areas with certificates of sustainable forest management.
After more than 1 year of implementation, the units with which the company cooperates and associates have been evaluated and granted 3 certificates by the certification organization of FSC with a total area of 11,462ha managed by 5 forestry companies. Along with this cooperation, the company also sponsored a pilot programme for groups of households in Yen Son district with an area of 1,460 ha.Mr. Ninh Van Lin, Tien Bo commune, Yen Son district, said that the signing of contracts between households and large companies is very necessary, because it will both ensure long-term stable material areas for enterprises while guarantee a “peace of mind” for forest growers. Under the association with Woodsland Joint Stock Company, the farmers in Tien Bo commune have formed an FSC certified forest area of up to 1,700ha. Afforestation has helped about 20 households in the commune earn billions of dong.