THE PRIME MINISTERDECISIONNo. 18/2007/QD-TTg OF FEBRUARY 5, 2007, APPROVING VIETNAMS FORESTRYDEVELOPMENT STRATEGY IN THE 2006-2020 PERIODTHE PRIME MINISTERPursuant to the December 25f2001 Law on Organization of the Government;Pursuant to the December3,2004Lcm on Forest Protection andDevelopment;At the proposal of theMinister of Agriculture and Rural Development in Report No. 3309/TTr- BNN-LN ofDecember J2, 2006fDECIDES;Article » To approveVietnams Forestry Development Strategy in the 2006-2020 period with thefollowing principal contents：1. Actual situation of the forestry sectorBy December 315 2005, the nationalforest area was 12.61 million ha, including about 10.28 million haofnatural forests and 2,33 million ha of plantation forests; forest cover was37%. Total timber deposit was 813.3 million (of which 94% was from natural forests) and there were about 8.5 billion bambootrees. While the forest area increased, the quality of natural and plantationforests remained low, fail...