So that "the forest will grow green, the forest will protect the homeland"

In 2020, the Prime Minister approved the Project "Planting one billion trees in the 2021-2025 period", which identified the role of authorities at all levels and communities in planting and protecting forests as extremely important.

Summarizing 3 years of implementing the project, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said that, in addition to localities with high results, many businesses and individuals have responded to the project by building programs and funds to call for acceptance and implementation of afforestation and tree planting.

Also according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, although the number of trees planted under the Project "Planting one billion trees" in the period of 2021-2025 has been achieved relatively large, tree planting is also facing many difficulties. That is, the land fund for new forest planting is increasingly narrowing; investment capital allocated for annual forest development is still slow compared to requirements, the level of support for scattered tree planting and forest planting is still low compared to reality; the current planned land area for urban green tree planting only accounts for about 1.2%, much lower than the urban planning standards set.

In the 2024-2025 period, the project continues to set a target of planting over 275 million trees, 98,210 hectares of forest equivalent to more than 216 million trees. Accordingly, the 2025 Spring Tree Planting Festival will start the country's determination to realize the target of the number of trees and newly planted forest area in the last year of this period.

Launching the "Tet tree planting festival to forever remember Uncle Ho" in the Spring of At Ty 2025, Thanh Hoa province set a target of planting over 3 million trees, 2 times higher than the results achieved in 2020. This is a very ambitious number, so it also requires a higher responsibility and flexible solutions.

Through recent tree planting festivals across the country, it has been shown that although hundreds of millions of trees have been planted, the area of ​​regenerated forests, the number of shade trees, trees creating landscapes, and regulating the environment is still not as expected. Because after being planted, trees still need to be cared for to ensure growth, which is not always guaranteed in all residential areas.

The spirit of planting trees is very necessary and setting goals to strive for is also very important. However, to some extent, planting trees does not necessarily have to follow achievements. What is needed is that planting trees must be associated with the growth of trees, for a green future of Vietnam, for the sustainable development of the forestry industry. We have seen in recent years that a number of units and businesses have responded to tree planting with quite good slogans, with a large number of participants. However, the effectiveness of the movement is still a matter of discussion.

In order for trees to grow into forests and “The forest will grow green/ The forest protects the homeland” as the beautiful lyrics in the song “A lifetime, a forest” require units and localities to have a truly serious and flexible attitude in planting trees. If the planted trees die, they must be replanted, and planting trees must be combined with care and monitoring of tree growth.

The goal is for each cadre and each household to plant at least one tree, successfully implementing the emulation movement "Everyone plants trees, every household plants trees, the whole population plants trees, plants forests", but definitely not planting trees indiscriminately, in a form that causes waste and expense. Only when planting trees and protecting planted trees becomes a truly serious task, a natural need in agencies, units, businesses, and residential communities, can we put an end to planting trees on paper, and the forests will truly grow green to protect our homeland.

Thai Minh

Source: https://baothanhhoa.vn/de-rung-se-len-xanh-rung-giu-dat-que-huong-238643.htm