Vietnam: Lao Cai province seeks solutions to increase the value of tree species planted in the province for 50 years

Cinnamon has been actively planted and developed by people in a number of lowland communes in Bac Ha, Van Ban, Bao Yen and Bao Thang districts of Lao Cai province since 1974. Up to now, after nearly 50 years, Cinnamon growers have a lot of experience in growing, caring, exploiting and preliminarily processing cinnamon products. In addition, the thinking about forestry has changed positively to socialized forestry, developing forestry economy associated with sustainable forest management and protection, and ecological environment protection. Forming linkage chains for forest product production, including cinnamon production linkages. Productivity and quality of cinnamon products of Lao Cai province are among the top compared to other cinnamon growing provinces across the country. This has been confirmed through the review, assessment and analysis of cinnamon samples from Lao Cai; Cinnamon essential oil content of Lao Cai province reached 4.6%, that is, in 100 kg of cinnamon there ...