#forest coverage

As of December 31, 2016, Vietnam had a total forest area of nearly 14.378 million hectares, including over 10.242 million hectares of natural forest and more than 4.135 million hectares of planted area, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

The forestry sector will work to increase its average production value to between 5.5% and 6% a year, forest coverage rate to 42 percent, and export value to at least US$8 billion annually from now to 2020.

The forestry sector will protect, develop and sustainably use existing forest areas and land fund for forest development with a view to raising the country’s forest coverage to 47.25% in 2017.