On November 28, 1959, President Ho Chi Minh wrote an article which was published on Nhan dan (People) newspaper, stressing the significance of tree planting to each person, each family and the entire nation. It has since become an annual Vietnamese customs each Lunar New Year. President Tran Dai Quang watering a newly-planted tree during the event According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, 235,000ha of concentrated forests and over 60 million scattered trees were planted nationwide last year. Meanwhile, 6.1 million ha of forests were protected and 335,000ha were zoned off for forest regeneration. The number of violations in forest management and protection decreased by 23 percent, the total acreage of damaged forests fell by 68 percent annually, and forestry export hit USD 8 billion. The rate of forest coverage reached 41.45 percent, making contributions to the common growth of the agricultural sector. In accordance with the Target Program on Sustainable Forestry Development for 2016-2020, the sector targets raising forestry production value by 6-6.5 percent, increasing forest coverage to 42 percent and forestry export to USD 10 billion by 2020, contributing to mitigating natural disasters and reducing poverty in combination with new-style rural development and ensuring national defense-security. Speaking at the event, President Quang underlined the strategic significance of tree planting and forestation amidst global warming and climate change. He called on ministries, agencies, localities and people nationwide to raise public awareness of forest protection and prevent illegal logging Source: VNA
State President Tran Duc Luong launched a traditional New Year tree-planting drive in the northern province of Thai Nguyen on February 6 with a call on all localities and people to make the forestry sector an important economic industry for the country. The State leader noted that 46 years ago, President Ho Chi Minh first launched the New Year tree-planting drive nationwide and since then it has become a traditional activity of the Vietnamese people during spring. Tree planting and afforestation movements have developed constantly and achieved encouraging results, he said. The president emphasized that tree-planting and afforestation must ensure…... [read more]
Hanoi’s tree-planting festival was launched at its new urban area of Viet Hung in Long Bien precinct on January 30, the fifth day of the first month of the lunar Year of the Buffalo. Addressing the launch ceremony, Pham Quang Nghi, Party Politburo member and Secretary of the Hanoi municipal Party Committee, recalled Uncle Ho’s call in Spring 1960 for a tree planting festival in every spring, which has become a fine tradition of the country. In 2009, Hanoi aims to plant 160,000 shade-trees and fruit-trees in its 20 precincts and districts, including 45,000 trees in the outlying district of…... [read more]
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), Nguyen Phu Trong, launched the Lunar New Year by planting trees in Hanoi's outlying district of Ba Vi on February 3, the fourth day of the traditional Tet holiday. The event was to mark the 84th founding anniversary of the CPV and 45 years since late President Ho Chi Minh planted a banyan tree on Dong Vang hill, Vat Lai commune to celebrate the first day of the Year of the Rooster 1969. The tree, which represented the beginning of a national planting campaign, has now become a cultural relic site.…... [read more]
Nhan Dan Online - President Truong Tan Sang on February 7 inaugurated a tree planting festival at the Temple of Heroic Vietnamese Mothers and War Martyrs on the Ham Rong cultural and historical relic site in Thanh Hoa city. The event is jointly organised by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Thanh Hoa Provincial People's Committee. The President stressed the great significance of the festival for Vietnam, which is among the countries affected most severely by climate change. The country has suffered an increasing frequency of devastating tropical storms in recent years that has caused tremendous losses…... [read more]
President Nguyen Minh Triet launched Vietnam's national tree-planting campaign on Thursday, invoking the memory of late President Ho Chi Minh who initiated the annual movement in the spring of 1960. Addressing the crowd at the event's commencement ceremony in Hanoi's outlying district of Soc Son, Triet said: "Uncle Ho 47 years ago called upon people of all walks of life to take part in a tree-planting festival that has become a Vietnamese cultural tradition every spring."He urged the Party, the armed forces and the people to plant trees and protect forests for the sake of socio-economic development and to make…... [read more]
