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Finland helps Vietnam build forest management database

The management and sharing of data on forests in Vietnam was the main topic of a workshop co-organised in HCM City on March 8.
Finland helps Vietnam build forest management database ảnh 1Damaged part of the Dai Ninh protection forest in Lam Dong (Photo: VNA)

HCM City (VNA) – The management and sharing of data on forests in Vietnam was the maintopic of a workshop co-organised in HCM City on March 8 by the GeneralDepartment of Forestry under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development andthe Finnish Embassy.

The workshopformed part of the second phase of the Forest Management Information SystemsProject (FORMIS) funded by the Finnish Government.

JormaJyrkila, Forest Data Service Managerof the Finnish Forest Centre, said Finland’s data on forest exploitation,growth and protection are updated regularly. The country mainly uses remotesensing technology to conduct forest surveys, helping it cut costs by 60-70percent.

Nguyen Ba Ngai, Deputy General Director of theGeneral Department of Forestry, said more than 800,000 forest owners in 40provinces and cities have been updated into Vietnam’s forestry resources database.

With the assistance from Finland, the department isupdating information about 8.5 million forest lots in all 63 provinces andcities, thus helping enterprises to have enough information to make theirinvestment decisions.

Nguyen Ton Quyen, Vice President and GeneralSecretary of the Vietnam Timber and Forestry Products Association, said theinformation and data of the FORMIS project are very useful to wood processingenterprises.

The system can help enterprises follow changes offorests and forest land, determine locations, road conditions, and distance tocreate detail plans for buying material wood as well as contact local forestmanagement agencies for necessary information.

This year, the department will implement urgentsolutions to facilitate the use of information and data on forest management byintegrating forestry data into the FORMIS system and build mechanisms forexchange information with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment andthe General Statistics Office.

The second phase of the FORMIS project has beenimplemented in five years, beginning in May, 2013, with the aim of building acomprehensively integrated management system to serve the management offorestry resources and reduce poverty.-VNA
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