Binh Thuan: Need to replicate the model of anti-sand planting forest

Since 1986, Binh Thuan province has implemented a project of planting 120 hectares of casuarina on mobile sandy soil in Chi Cong commune, Tuy Phong district. Experiencing many hot and dry seasons and windy sand, but those impetuous casuarina forests still stand firm and initially limit the flying sand. However, since then, the work of planting coastal protection forests in this province almost trampled in place.

Binh Thuan Sand Hill (Photo: ibiblio.org)

With the enthusiastic help of forestry scientists, Binh Thuan province proactively proposed technical solutions to conquer mobile sand; prioritize investment in forestry projects and projects, increase the protection forest area for agricultural production, prevent sand, prevent soil degradation, prevent salt . to contribute to stabilizing life. people. The province has also set a target of effectively conquering flying sand in the project area with a natural area of ​​35,000 hectares through a solution of planting 5,000 hectares of sand-resistant forest with trees such as casuarina, drought-tolerant glue and dendrites contribute to protecting the ecological environment, stabilizing the sustainable life of the people and creating a volume of products from planted forests.

With a system of technical measures that have proved effective in the development of mobile sand-proof forest in the hot-drought areas, which are drawn from practice, Binh Thuan province is fully capable of planting forests, increasing coverage and improving. environment, sand protection, soil protection, productivity increase of crops and livestock . create stable jobs for people in the coastal area. But it is not clear why the coastal protection forest planting in this province has not been replicated. It is known that the project of planting sand-proof forest in 2 districts of Tuy Phong and Bac Binh, implemented by the agricultural sector in 3 years 2005-2007 is only 300 hectares. It is suggested that the difficulty of planting sand-proof forest in Binh Thuan province is due to funding?

With an area of ​​coastal sandy area of ​​over 100,000 hectares stretching over 200 kilometers of the coast of Binh Thuan province, in which the deserted sandy soil and mobile sand hills in Tuy Phong and Bac Binh districts stretch on nearly 50 kilometers with nearly 35,000 hectares.In the annual dry season (from December to April next year), severe sandstorms often occur with wind speeds of over 16 meters per second, sometimes up to 25 meters per second threatening to bury villages and fields. copper, roads on a wide range of tens of thousands of hectares create desertification inside the interior and risk to cover road National Highway 1 A (Chi Cong commune, Tuy Phong district) and Desertification is an inevitable ecological disaster if there are no positive measures to stop this threat.

Therefore, the planting of protection forests for environmental protection in the hot and cold areas in 2 districts Tuy Phong and Bac Binh is very necessary. Firstly, it is necessary to conquer effectively 5,000 hectares of mobile sand in the whole region. This is an urgent requirement for the authorities and people of Binh Thuan province in the coming time.

Nguyen Duc Anh - MonreNet