Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on April 22 asked the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to focus on forest planning so as to expand the land planted with rubbers trees to one million hectares by 2015.
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Speaking at a ceremony held in
"Rubber currently contributes over US $1 billion to the national export turnover, therefore it is extremely important to step up development of the industry," said the Prime Minister.
PM Dung praised the Vietnam Rubber Corporation’s comprehensive development and great efforts to expand cultivating areas, improving rubber quality and creating jobs for local people, especially for ethnic minority people in the past 10 years.
He asked the Rubber Group to consider rubber development as its main trading activity and that it must manage another 200,000 hectares of rubber trees by 2015, mainly in the north western and central highlands regions.
He urged the group to develop rubber both in large quantity and at high quality, while continuing to complete its operational model and become a strong group with the ability to compete globally.
He also pointed to the need of improving the groups staff training, Party building and political system at a grassroots level. He also expressed his hope that over 80,000 cadres and workers will unite in the corporation’s development, actively contributing to the country’s modernization and industrialization process.
Rubber is currently grown on 220,000 ha, of which 180,000 ha yields an average 1.8 tonnes per ha, the highest among rubber growing countries in the world. So far, the sector has employed 83,000 workers, of whom 10,000 are ethnic minority workers. It turned out VND 4,100 billion in profits last year.
The sectors current projects include plans to plant 100,000 ha of rubber tree in
(Source: Nhan dan)
