First Forestry Festival to open

Vietnam’s first timber and forest products festival will take place in Quy Nhon City, Binh Dinh province on March 26-28.

The event is organised by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Ministry of Industry and Trade in coordination with the Vietnam Timber and Forest Product Association and the Binh Dinh provincial People’s Committee.

The festival will attract 100 domestic and foreign businesses with 500 stalls.

Seminars on Vietnam’s forestry science, promoting trade and business cooperation will also be held.

Binh Dinh province is one of Vietnam’s four timber centres, along with Ho Chi Minh City, Binh Duong and Dong Nai. Binh Dinh now has 150 wood processing businesses with a total investment capital of VND1,600 billion and creates jobs for 22,000 labourers.

The locality’s wood products are now present in 120 countries and territories across the world. In 2010, wood export turnover reached nearly US$270 million, occupying over 60 percent of the province’s total export turnover. – VOV

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