Bamboo and rattan exported grown strongly in 2019

According to the General Department of Forestry, in 2019, Vietnam’s export of bamboo and rattan products reached $ 474 million, an increase of 44.4% compared to 2018. Which is the group of products with the highest value in non-timber forest products.

Rattan, bamboo, and sedge products of Vietnam are mainly exported to EU countries, accounting for 31.44% of the proportion and up 35.36% over the previous year. Next is the US market, accounting for 19.5% and nearly doubling compared to 2018; Japan market accounted for 9.3% and up 10.8%. Rattan, bamboo, and sedge products of Vietnam are also exported to other markets such as Germany, China, Poland, Denmark …

Lots of prospects, but lack of raw rattan, bamboo materials

In general, in the past year, the export turnover of rattan, bamboo, sedge products of Vietnam has grown in almost all schools, especially in India by 2.3 times. Even though the turnover to this market. still very small.

Currently, the country has 723 craft villages of processing rattan, bamboo more than 1,000 enterprises involved in the production and export of this item, attracting 342,000 workers. Although there are a large number of enterprises and households manufacturing and export turnover has increased sharply, the export market share of Vietnam’s bamboo and rattan industry accounts for less than 3% of the world market. While the global trade in bamboo and rattan products is up to 14-15 billion USD, Vietnam’s bamboo and rattan industry is still lumbering in the export value of several hundred million USD and unable to enter the 1 billion club. USD like other agricultural, forestry aquatic products.

Mr. Thai Dai Phong, Director of Duc Phong Company Limited (Vinh City, Nghe An) said that although the unit is producing and consuming stably all kinds of hanging lamps, table lamps, boxes, fruit baskets. .. in European, American, Asian countries, but the challenge is not small for businesses when the source of raw materials is unstable in quantity and quality, and the price is getting higher and higher.

Although there are many potentials and advantages to grow and develop bamboo, bamboo, and rattan, Vietnam still has to import this group of raw materials for production and processing from some countries in the region. According to the General Department of Forestry, Vietnam annually consumes about 900 million bamboo trees for various purposes, expected to be 1 billion trees by 2020. Vietnam currently has approximately 1.5 million hectares of bamboo with an estimated reserve of 6 billion trees. However, most of this bamboo area forest, a primary forest needs to be preserved and not exploited. The area of ​​planted bamboo nationwide is currently about 85,000 ha, with a reserve of 350 million trees, only meeting one of third demand for raw materials for the production of rattan products.

Promote the planting of rattan, bamboo.

Prof. Dr. Vo Dai Hai, Director of the Vietnam Forest Science Institute, said that bamboo is the group of NTFPs with the largest area today. Scientists have investigated and classified over 200 species of bamboo, bamboo in Vietnam. In which, more than 10 bamboo species have production potential for commercial use, such as phoenix, apricot, show, bamboo, giant umbrella.

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Of course, some types of bamboo are mainly exploited but have not yet propagated cultivated varieties. There have been trials of root extraction for planting, so they do not meet technical requirements and are not consistent in quality. The exploitation has not been planned, overexploited, leading to degradation of bamboo, unorganized and unsustainable.

In addition, the link between actors in the bamboo value chain is loose, ineffective, and does not guarantee fairness and transparency. This has negatively affected the quality, traceability of products and reduced the competitiveness of Vietnamese handicrafts and bamboo-based household items in the world.

Potentials and advantages of the bamboo chain are considered underdeveloped due to their limited scale, spontaneous, small, fragmented collection and trading system, mainly for construction, knitting prices. low value.

In particular, Vietnam does not have sufficient technical standards for bamboo quality, forest certification, silvicultural solutions applied to bamboo are limited, lack of sustainable forest management options, raw material areas still exist. scatter.

Seeing the potentials and strengths of rattan, bamboo, some localities are developing commodity bamboo cultivation. Currently, the project “Sustainable development of the value chain of clam and bamboo in Vietnam” worth 4.3 million Euro.

Co-financed by the EU and Oxfam is implemented in 4 years (2018 – 2022) in 5 provinces of Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, Ben Tre, Tra Vinh, Tien Giang. The project is benefiting 150 bamboo production groups with 35,000 members and 60 small and medium bamboo and rattan processing enterprises.

Thanh Hoa is the locality with the largest volume of bamboo and bamboo in the country, with 152,659 ha bamboo, mainly distributed in 11 western districts of the province. In which, tens of thousand hectares of bamboo are planted forests.

Every year, Thanh Hoa supplies to the market about 0.8 million tons of bamboo and bamboo. However, according to experts growing bamboo in Thanh Hoa is still low. if managed, protected, cared for intensively, and exploited following technical processes, can annually provide the market. the school is about 1.6 million tons.

To promote this potential and strength, Thanh Hoa province has many policies to encourage and attract businesses to invest processing industry. Thereby, the province has 126 establishments processing products from bamboo including 9 cooperatives, 17 domestic companies, 1 foreign company, and 99 individual business households.

By the end of 2019, Thanh Hoa Bamboo and Bamboo Association was established with Decision No. 2869 / QD-UBND, to promote the image and potential of Thanh Hoa bamboo; to promote investment attraction and development industry.

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