Carry out the teachings of our beloved Uncle Ho: "Spring is the Tree Planting Festival. "Make the country more and more Spring" Every time Spring comes, localities and units throughout the province enthusiastically join forces to organize "Tree planting festival to forever remember Uncle Ho". This is also a practical activity in response to the Program to plant one billion trees in the period 2021-2025 - For a green Vietnam launched by the Prime Minister, contributing to building the homeland to be forever green and sustainable. solid.
Preserving "green lungs"
During President Ho Chi Minh's lifetime, he was very interested in preserving, protecting, and building a healthy living environment for the people, and he chose to protect and plant trees as a fulcrum and lever for conservation activities. environmental protection. He always emphasized the role of afforestation and encouraged people to plant lots of trees. Remembering his advice, the Party Committee, government, and people of all ethnic groups in the province always pay attention to planting trees and developing forests.
With a relatively large total area of forests and forestry land, in recent years, the tree planting and afforestation movement in Doan Hung district has always been paid attention and focused by party committees and authorities at all levels, contributing to greening bare land and hills. bare mountains, protect the ecological environment, increase people's income. Coming to Van Don commune, we learned that the commune is actively preparing the field to plant 30 hectares of concentrated forest and 8,000 scattered trees. To ensure good conditions for afforestation to achieve the highest results, right from the beginning of the year, the commune focused on directing people to clear vegetation and dig holes to deploy afforestation.
Comrade Nguyen Tien Thinh - Chairman of Van Don Commune People's Committee said: "This year, after being assigned the plan, the commune has issued documents instructing residential areas to organize households to register to plant forests and trees. scattered. At the same time, guide afforestation household owners to clear vegetation, dig holes, and prepare seedlings to deploy afforestation in 2024 and activities for the 2024 Spring Festival of Dragon Tree Planting.
Particularly, the district has many areas of protective and special-use forests. Every year, Yen Lap district has plans and proactively plants replacement forests with indigenous tree varieties to contribute to environmental protection and combating climate change. Queen. To meet the needs of seedlings for afforestation, right from the beginning of the year, seedling production facilities in the district have proactively planted nurseries, taken care of, and prevented pests and diseases, ensuring that Trees grow well, survival rate is high.
Mr. Do Nguyen The - owner of a seedling production and business establishment in Dong Thinh commune, Yen Lap district said: "My family sells perennial plant varieties in the commune, on average each year supplying to the market about three million seedlings of all kinds. With a large quantity, to ensure the quality of seedlings provided to farmers, I always choose reputable, branded, well-origin seed suppliers... and regularly coordinate with each other. with the district to take samples for testing, evaluate seed quality, and actively participate in training classes to gain more knowledge to serve production and business activities. Up to now, the facility is ready to provide seeds to households planting forests at the beginning of the year."
Respond to His teachings
It is one of the provinces with a lot of potential and advantages in forest development, with a large forestry land area of nearly 188,000 hectares, of which more than 120,000 hectares of production forest land, over 32,000 hectares of protective forests, and special-use forests. more than 16,000 hectares, aware of the importance of nature and trees to human life, remembering Uncle Ho's advice, has become a practice, every year, right from the first days of the new year, Hundreds of hectares of forest, hundreds of thousands of scattered trees planted everywhere, the afforestation movement spread widely, becoming a cultural beauty in all localities in the province.
His teachings have penetrated deeply into the subconscious of every citizen of the Land of Patriarchs. Each officer, party member and people are always aware and self-conscious in protecting trees and preserving the beautiful natural landscape. Party committees and authorities in the province have focused on leading, directing, and regularly promoting propaganda and raising awareness about the importance of forests to social life; Mobilize all resources to participate in forest management, protection and development. From the policy of socializing forestry, attaching importance to the goal of protecting the ecological environment combined with economic development, the province has focused on building programs, plans and planning on sustainable forest protection and development. sustainable association with forest product processing... Along with mechanisms and policies, the province has directed the transformation of crop structure, applying scientific and technical advances to bring good tree varieties into nurseries and planting; Applying new technical methods to farming, instructing forest planters on soil preparation techniques, digging holes, planting trees, fertilizing, planting density... ensuring that the forest area grows and develops well, brings high economic efficiency.
Forest management is increasingly coming into life, creating favorable conditions for organizations, individuals and communities to effectively participate in forest protection and development. In recent years, forestry has really attracted many collectives and farming households to participate. In particular, income from forestry has helped many households in remote areas improve their lives, eliminate hunger, reduce poverty, and initially get rich from the forest, making an important contribution to reducing the poverty rate of the province. The area of newly planted forests is increasing, by 2023 the concentrated afforestation area will be nearly 10,000 hectares, with over 2,200 hectares of large trees planted. To date, the forest coverage rate in the province is 39.6%.
Implementing Uncle Ho's teachings about participating in the spring tree planting and forestry movement, every year, localities and units simultaneously organize the "Tree Planting Festival to forever be grateful to Uncle Ho". The movement aims to propagate, encourage and encourage all levels, sectors and people to actively promote the movement of planting trees and forests, promoting the traditions and cultural beauty of the nation in planting, caring for and preserving Protect forest resources, contributing to realizing the goal of the Project "Planting one billion trees in the period 2021 - 2025" launched by the Prime Minister.
According to the plan, "Eternal Tree Planting Festival in gratitude to Uncle Ho" Xuan Giap Thin 2024 in the province will take place in one month, starting from February 15, 2024 to March 15, 2024. The Provincial Tree Planting Launching Ceremony will be carried out starting at 8:00 a.m., February 15, 2024, i.e. January 6, Giap Thin year at the Hung Temple Historical Relic Area. Phu Tho districts and towns proactively organized a ceremony to respond to the launching of the Tree Planting Festival. The whole province strives to plant 945,000 scattered trees and 825 hectares of concentrated forests.
Comrade Tran Quang Dong - Deputy Director of the Provincial Forest Protection Department said: Implementing the plan of the Provincial People's Committee, the Forest Protection Department has focused on propagandizing to civil servants, public employees, workers, and people in the provinces. Districts, cities, towns, agencies, units, and schools about the role and meaning of tree planting; instruct people to plant and take care of forests. On the first working day of the new year, from offices, schools, businesses to residential areas, officials, people and students all go out to plant trees. Activities maintained every year have contributed to promoting the movement of planting trees and forests, creating a vibrant and widespread competitive atmosphere. From there, raise people's awareness of the role, effects, and value of forests, tree planting, and afforestation associated with sustainable socio-economic development, protecting the ecological environment, contributing to reducing mitigate natural disasters and combat climate change.
Hoang Huong