Forest products
Forest industry
Illegal logging in Laos hinders government’s forestation goals
Illegal logging, concessions to private developers and agricultural encroachment on forest lands are jeopardizing Laos’s goal of achieving 70% forest cover density by 2035.That’s according to a recent survey by Laos’s Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, which pointed to an increase in illegal logging in ...
RFA Lao
Feasibility study for Forestry and Eco Agriculture project gets underway
The government has given the green light to Jia Run Agricultural Development Co., Ltd. to carry out a feasibility study for an ecological agriculture development project in Sanamxay district, Attapeu province. the company planned to operate the project on area of 5,000 hectares, as a ...
Viengdavanh Banphahaksa
Illegal logging remains an issue despite PM’s order
Although the Prime Minister’s Order relating to control of the timber industry is being strictly enforced, illegal logging continues to be of great concern although it has declined in recent years.In 2020, more than 2,600 cubic metres of illegally harvested wood and over 290 tonnes ...
Somsack Pongkhao
Lao: Champassak city announces auction of confiscated timber
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The seized timber auction committee of Champassak city has invited furniture associations, timber processing factories, furniture factories and timber businesses across the country to an auction of confiscated timber.The government seized the wood up for sale after it was illicitly cut ...
News Desk
http://annx.asianews.network/content/lao-champassak-city-announces-auction-confiscated-timber-104984
Savannakhet authorities seize illegal shipment of wood
Savannakhet provincial authorities last week stopped a container truck being driven by a Vietnamese national through Phin district into Vietnam, and confiscated illegally harvested timber stored inside the vehicle.Acting Director of the province’s Forestry Inspection Office, Mr Laty Phengsithai, told Vientiane Times that forest inspection officials stopped ...
Phomphong Laoin
Lao ministry allows more wood products for export
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Ministry of Industry and Commerce has revised the list of wood products approved for export so that Lao furniture makers can more easily sell their goods in local and overseas markets.The ministry has specified three main categories of wood product ...
News Desk
http://annx.asianews.network/content/lao-ministry-allows-more-wood-products-export-101523
White charcoal makers plant more trees in Laos to boost exports
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The White Charcoal Producers for Export Group (WPEG) is working with the government and local communities on a project to plant Cratexylum formosum (mai tiew) saplings in some of the country’s least developed regions in the hope it will help boost trade and ...
Sangkhomsay Bubphanouvong
http://annx.asianews.network/content/white-charcoal-makers-plant-more-trees-boost-exports-98245
Biodiversity project supports Lao National Arbour Day
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Asian Development Bank (ADB)-funded Biodiversity Conservation Corridors (BCC) project has provided 10,000 seedlings to help the government fulfil its ambition to extend the number of green spaces in Vientiane this year.Some of the seedlings were planted in the Botanical Garden ...
News Desk
http://annx.asianews.network/content/biodiversity-project-supports-national-arbour-day-97836
Arbour Day bolsters Lao government’s reforestation drive
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Party and state leaders and members of the public planted thousands of saplings on National Arbour Day on Saturday, giving a huge boost to the government’s effort to increase forest cover to 70 per cent by 2020.Vice President Phankham Viphavanh, other ...
Souksakhone Vaenkeo
http://annx.asianews.network/content/arbour-day-bolsters-lao-government%E2%80%99s-reforestation-drive-97746
Vientiane Capital to plant trees on 300 hectares this year
VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Vientiane is making a strong contribution to the country’s efforts to restore forest cover to 70 percent of the total land area by the end of next year, a forestry official has said.Director of Vientiane’s Department of Agriculture and Forestry, Dr Sayla ...
Somxay Sengdara