Impact of policies on raw material procurement in the Vietnamese timber processing industry: a case study of sawmills in Hue City

Acacia Plantation Development and the Configuration of Tree Farmers’ Agricultural Assets and Land Management—A Survey in Central Vietnam

“…The funds from such programs (at national level over USD 2 billion in total) assisted the development of tree nurseries, the reorganization of forestry organizations, payments of rural labor, and-consequently-the set-up of vast 'planted forests', which were mostly monocultures of fast-growing exotic acacias [1,12,43,49]. National programs, with international support, also fostered the development of sawmills and wood factories, and the improvement of road networks which enabled transport of wood harvests [52][53][54].…”

“…Farmers' decisions of tree harvesting partly depend on wood industry demands and contractual agreements with buyers [15,26,101,137]. In our study a majority of the FSC‹exploit› respondents (89%) as well as a few other sawlog producers (14% of Ncsawlog and 22% of FSC‹start› respondents) 11 sold their wood products directly to the paper mills and sawmills (major paper mills are located in Phú Lộc and adjacent lowland districts [26,52]). All the other respondents (i.e., 64% of sawlog producers and 100% of Nc-woodchip producers; Table 6) sold their wood products to a middleman.…”