Decision No. 29/2011/QD-UBND on Approving the Project on Building and Developing Key Economic Sectors and Staple Products of the Province to 2020

Decision No. 29/2011/QD-UBND of the Provincial People's Committee of Kon Tum approves the Project on building and developing key economic sectors and staple products of Kon Tum Province to 2020. Issued on the basis of a submission from the Provincial-level Department of Planning and Investment in Submission Report No. 1489/TTr-SKHDT dated 09/09/2011, the Decision rests principally on the Law on Organization of People's Councils and People's Committees dated 26/11/2003, Decision No. 581/QD-TTg dated 20/04/2011 of the Prime Minister approving the master plan on socio-economic development of Kon Tum Province to 2020, and Resolution No. 16/2011/NQ-HDND dated 05/08/2011 of the Provincial People's Council. It also cites Resolution No. 03-NQ/TU dated 27/07/2011 of the Provincial Party Committee and Decision No. 45/2010/QD-UBND dated 24/12/2010 on the Socio-economic development plan for 2011-2015. The Decision applies province-wide to provincial departments, district-level People's Committees, enterprises, investors, project owners and households participating in production and processing of the designated sectors and products, and assigns the Provincial-level Department of Planning and Investment as the lead coordinating agency. For the 2011-2015 stage, the Project designates five key sectors and sector groups as key economic sectors: (1) perennial trees cultivation, (2) forest planting and tending, (3) agro-forestry products processing industry, (4) production of products from minerals, and (5) electricity production, transmission and distribution, and nine staple products: coffee, rubber and rubber-based products, cassava and cassava-based products, Ngoc Linh ginseng, cold-climate vegetables and flowers, freshwater aquaculture (sturgeon and salmon), pulp and paper, bricks and tiles, and electricity. Targets to 2015 are: rubber 70,000 ha with output over 50,000 tons; coffee 12,000 ha with output over 25,000 tons; cassava 25,000 ha with output over 340,000 tons; Ngoc Linh ginseng 500 ha (about 100 ha harvestable in 2015) with output over 40 tons; cold-climate vegetables and flowers 500 ha (about 100 ha flowers) with output over 6,750 tons; sturgeon and salmon output about 500 tons. Processing targets are 6,000 tons of ground coffee, 100,000 tons of cassava starch, 100 million litres of biofuel, 100,000 rubber products, 130,000 tons of pulp and paper, 120 million tunnel bricks, 30 million non-fired bricks, and 1 billion kWh of electricity. The combined value added of key sectors and staple products is to account for about 30-35% of gross provincial product by 2015. For 2016-2020, the Project adds travel agency and tour business operations (eco-tourism) as a key sector and Mang Den eco-tourism as a staple product. Targets to 2020 are: rubber output 90,000-95,000 tons; coffee 25,000-30,000 tons; cassava 20,000 ha with output over 400,000 tons; Ngoc Linh ginseng 1,000 ha (about 300 ha harvestable) with output over 150 tons; cold-climate vegetables and flowers 2,000 ha (500 ha flowers) with output 45,000 tons; sturgeon and salmon 1,000 tons; and processing of 10,000 tons ground coffee, 3,000 tons instant coffee, 136,000 tons cassava starch, 140 million litres biofuel, 3 million rubber products, 200,000 tons pulp and paper, 500-600 million bricks (tunnel and non-fired), 2.2 billion kWh, and over 200,000 tourist arrivals to Mang Den. Combined value added is to reach 40-45% of gross provincial product by 2020. Key tasks and solutions include strengthening planning and planning management, developing raw material zones for processing, strictly managing planned land funds, facilitating land allocation and land lease of unused land, linking enterprises with households to convert inefficient annual and perennial crop land to rubber including conversion of impoverished forests and forestry land in accordance with law, trialling cold-climate rubber varieties on sloping land in the eastern Truong Son area for replication after 2015, reorganising agro-forestry farms, supporting renovation of old low-yield coffee gardens with new varieties, expanding Ngoc Linh ginseng under natural forest canopy in Tu Mo Rong Rural District mainly through enterprise-household linkage and tissue culture, stabilising cassava area with intensive cultivation and new varieties, and encouraging cooperation to expand raw material zones in bordering provinces of Laos and Cambodia. The Decision removes from the investment list small and medium hydropower and other projects with negative environmental impacts, large occupation of production land or low investment efficiency, and requires review and supplementation of specialised plannings to 2020. The excerpt does not state an effective date or any document superseded.