The 2022-2025 forest product processing development project is designed to support rural industrial establishments

Thanh Hoa Province is home to 160,000 hectares of forests with the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification, more than 10,000ha of planted forests and 6.2 million scattered trees, with the area of large timber forests having increased to 56,000ha and Dendrocalamus barbatus to 30,000ha.

The 2022-2025 forest product processing development project is designed to support rural industrial establishments, increase the province’s wood and non-timber forest product export value to US$100 million and encourage more than 80 percent of wood processors in the province to apply advanced production technology by 2025. The project is expected to promote investment connectivity among rural industrial manufacturers, assist them in raw materials planning, technology, production and competitiveness improvement, and adding value to natural and planted timber.

In 2018, the center provided support worth VND1.3 billion for rural industrial producers in the province. In 2019, the center implemented vital industry promotion projects in the province’s Thach Thanh, Nhu Xuan and Nhu Thanh districts at a total cost of VND2.3 billion, and in 2020, it helped three industrial producers in Ngoc Lac, Nhu Thanh and Trieu Son districts apply advanced forest product processing machinery and equipment, and assisted two other rural industrial establishments, one in Nong Cong District and one in Nghi Son Town, to build technical demonstration models.

Thanh Hoa Province is home to more than 400 forest products processors. Industry promotion projects and forest product processing development workshops have helped them enrich their knowledge, standardize and improve production, and apply advanced technology and equipment. Businesses have begun to connect with each other to form value chains.