The export turnover of Vietnam’s woodwork is expected to reach USD3.1 billion this year. Photo dddn.com.vn

The festival is a big event, honoring the forestry sector and those who have contributed to the Vietnam’s forestry sector, according Vice Chairman of Binh Dinh People’s Committee Le Huu Loc.

The event is not only an opportunity for domestic and foreign forest product manufacturers to cooperate with each other but expected to become a festival of national magnitude and it will be periodically held, becoming a festival for experts and businesses operating in the forestry sector.

Deputy Head of the Ministry of Information and Communications’ Press Department, Dang Thi Van An, affirmed that Vietnam’s forestry sector has become a spearhead industry.

Its export turnover increased from US$219 million in 2000 to US$2.6 billion in 2009 and the figure is expected to reach US$3.1 billion this year, she said.

Vietnam’s forest products are now shipped to 120 countries, An added. The wood processing sector has become one of five major hard currency earners of the country, helping Vietnam to rank second in Southeast Asia in term of wood products export.

The first Vietnam forest product festival plays an important role in generating more opportunities for domestic woodwork exporters and their foreign partners to boost cooperation and trade promotion, aiming to sustainably develop the forestry sector, according to An.

Binh Dinh Province People’s Committee, the Vietnam Timber and Forest Product Association (VIFORES), and Dat Vo Advertising and Communications Company coordinated to organize the festival with the aim at affirming the ever-development of Vietnam’s forestry sector and opening a new route for forest products in the country’s development and integration cause.

• Source: dddn.com.vn