Land and forest allocation in Muong Nhe still faces many difficulties.

Officials from the Department of Natural Resources and Environment of Muong Nha District handed over land use right certificates for non-forested land to residents of Pa My commune.

Mr. Thào A Dế, Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Mường Nhé District, said: Right from the initial stages of land and forest allocation and issuance of land use right certificates, Mường Nhé District mobilized the entire political system to participate. The District People's Committee and the District Steering Committee issued many guiding documents, promptly resolving difficulties and obstacles in the implementation process within their authority. Notably, significant positive results have been achieved regarding forest land, ensuring an increasing forest cover rate. 14,917.9 hectares of forest land have been allocated and managed. Of this, 10,879.08 hectares have been allocated and land use right certificates issued to households and communities, and 4,038.82 hectares have been assigned to the People's Committees of communes for management. However, the area of non-forested land surveyed has only reached 62% of the planned target, and the progress is still slow compared to the requirements (excluding areas overlapping with rubber plantation planning, Project 79 areas, and areas already surveyed by cadastral surveying...). To date, Muong Nha district has only allocated land and issued land use right certificates for 47% of the approved area, estimated at 33% of the planned survey. Over 2,000 hectares in the district remain unsurveyed due to small, fragmented plots, land used for transportation, and land along rivers and streams. In addition, the district still has 1,259 hectares of forested land in Pa Tet village (Huoi Lech commune) for which cadastral survey data has not yet been compiled.

Currently, a relatively large area of land within Muong Nha district remains unallocated due to encroachment. For example, there are over 70 households in Chung Chai commune cultivating land along the border between Chung Chai and Leng Su Sin communes. Furthermore, the district has not yet allocated land in the border areas between two communes with related administrative boundaries, such as Nam Ke commune and Na Co Sa commune (Nam Po district), because the people of Na Co Sa commune have not yet been persuaded to cooperate. In addition, some villages have not agreed with the boundaries of forested land that have been surveyed on the ground for management purposes, thus preventing the allocation of land to the community for the disputed areas. For instance, in Cha Noi 1 and Cha Noi 2 villages (Quang Lam commune), despite numerous attempts at resolution and persuasion, the people still have not agreed. Land disputes between households still occur because the commune authorities have not resolved them completely, or have attempted to resolve them multiple times but the people still disagree with the proposed solutions. Meanwhile, consulting units have not mobilized or supplemented qualified and capable personnel to carry out the tasks agreed upon, despite numerous directives and instructions from specialized agencies and the District People's Committee. There is no plan to allocate personnel to conduct supplementary reviews for areas not yet reviewed in the first round, and the dossiers for cases where the review plan has been publicly announced but land has not yet been allocated remain incomplete.

In light of the aforementioned difficulties and obstacles, in the coming period, for the People's Committees of communes whose land allocation plans and land use right certificates have been approved, Muong Nha district will direct land administration officials to coordinate with the consulting unit, the working group assisting the district's Steering Committee, and the Department of Natural Resources and Environment to review and classify cases that have not yet been allocated land, and simultaneously complete the dossiers to request supplementary allocation for eligible cases. For communes that have not yet developed land allocation plans or completed the registration dossiers, the district will closely coordinate with the consulting unit to urgently complete the registration dossiers from the people. At the same time, it will encourage people to register their land; resolve all land disputes before submitting the land allocation plan, ensuring that the area approved in the land allocation plan is equivalent to the area that has been reviewed and registered. Instruct the consulting unit to focus on increasing manpower and technical equipment to accelerate progress and complete the workload, ensuring the assigned plan is met.

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