The MARD is also responsible for proposing solutions for continued renovation and efficiency improvement of these farms.

The deadline for the report finalization is due in February this year.

Collective farms have screened their production, business strategies and functions in accordance with the Law on Enterprises as part of a program to reorganize, renovate and develop collective farms in 2004-2010.

They have been transformed into various forms, such as single-member limited liability companies, protective and specialized forestry management boards, or equitized companies.

At present, collective farms are focusing on reviewing their land use and making future land use planning schemes.

Initiated in 1960, collective farms are the State’s economic entities responsible for forests protection and development.

The difference between collective farms and other State-owned enterprises is that the State has allocated a large acreage of forest land and farming land for forestry production and business in the long term.

The country had 422 collective farms in 1997, however, the number has been reduced to 368 in recent years. The majority of them are located in the Northern mountainous region and the Central Highlands.

By Hải Minh