Farm forestry and its contribution to rural livelihoods in Viet Nam

摘要

Due to changes in the forest management policies during the last 15 years, farm forestry in Viet Nam has been developing rapidly and widely. According to statistics, there are at present about 60 758 farms of which 1630 are forestry farms (only 2.6 percent of the total number of farms in Viet Nam) having land area more than 10 ha and annual goods value more than 40 million Viet Nam dongs. In farm forestry, on an average forest land occupied 90 percent, agricultural land occupied 8 percent and other lands occupied 2 percent. Farm forestry in Viet Nam is distributed unequally from place to place, found mostly in the north of the central zone (18.7 percent) and northern mountainous zone (13.7 percent). However, farm forestry in Viet Nam is now at early stage of development and has mostly no harvest. Farm forestry in Viet Nam has different types, of which comprehensive farm forestry is the most popular. The main tree species used for planting in farm forestry in Viet Nam are Eucalyptus, Acacia, Pinus and Melaleuca. Although farm forestry is newly developed in Viet Nam, it has already contributed greatly to rural livelihoods and created more jobs for the local people. Some sustainable and effective farm forestry models have been successfully established. A number of large forestry farms operate on sustainable forest management and are on the way of getting forest certification.