rubber plantation

rubber plantation Vietnamese State President Truong Tan Sang once said: “Vietnam - Laos Rubber Joint Stock Company is one of economic units that expresses the Vietnam - Laos friendship relations most clearly.” Source: vccinews

By October 2006, the Viet-Lao Rubber Company had planted 8,000 hectares of its plantation, with the remaining 2,000 hectares slated to be planted in 2007.

By October 2006, the Viet-Lao Rubber Company had planted 8,000 hectares of its plantation, with the remaining 2,000 hectares slated to be planted in 2007. In five years from 2005 to 2010, Vietnam - Laos Rubber Joint Stock Company had planted more than 10,000 hectares of rubber trees. in May 2011, the company started commercial production on 1,642.39 ha of rubber trees grown in 2005 and added 2,200 ha of rubber trees planted in 2006 to commercial production in September 2011, bringing the productive area to 3,842.39 ha in 2011. Source: vccinews The Viet Nam Rubber Group (all members) re-affirmed on its website that it was no plan to invest neither more in rubber plantations in Cambodia and Laos since 2015 nor any plans to develop concessions in Laos and Cambodia in the future. Source: VRA

The company has more than 2,000 employees and Lao workers number nearly 1,900, or 97.3 percent of the total workforce. An employee is paid 800,000 kip (VND2 million) a month (reported on 12 September 2011). Source: vccinews

GVR planned to merge member units operating in the same industry. Quavan Rubber Co Ltd will be merged with Việt Lao Rubber Co Ltd Source: Vietnam News

Concession was approved prior to on-ground verification. Villagers have not been given free and prior informed consent, or the option to retain their communal lands.

Concession was approved prior to on-ground verification. Villagers have not been given free and prior informed consent, or the option to retain their communal lands. Assessment of the Environmental and Social Impacts and Environmental and Social Plans were created by the Vietnam - Laos Rubber Joint Stock Company (VLRC) Industrial Rubber Plantation in 2007. It was prepared by Earth Systems Lao Source: EIA report

Villagers have lost land to the company.

Villagers have lost land to the company. There was a report that The provincial government requested financial assistance from VLRC to resettle Thongchanh village (29 households). However, people in this village preferred to stay in their original village. Some land has been prepared for the new village, but no resettlement plan was available at the end of 2006. Source: EIA report

Environmental degradation: forest loss, heavy biodiversity losses, important aquatic habitats decimated and polluted by herbicides and pesticides, serious soil erosion Socio-economic: loss of forest access has indirectly affected livelihoods; loss of land for grazing directly affected free-range livestock, reduced village fish catch, loss of agricultural lands

Environmental degradation: forest loss, heavy biodiversity losses, important aquatic habitats decimated and polluted by herbicides and pesticides, serious soil erosion Socio-economic: loss of forest access has indirectly affected livelihoods; loss of land for grazing directly affected free-range livestock, reduced village fish catch, loss of agricultural lands Loss of agricultural land, forest lost. During the EIA conducting process, most of the villages have expressed concerns for their health and the one of their livestock about a potential alteration of water quality due to the use of pesticides in the plantations. Source: EIA report

jobs

jobs Wastewater treatment system, training to plant and tend rubber trees, building schools, pagodas and power grids.

In the framework of a cooperation program among the World Wildlife Fund in Viet Nam (WWF-VN), the Vietnam Rubber Association (VRA) and the Viet Nam Rubber Group – Joint Stock Company (VRG) jointly developed the the Handbook “Guideline for sustainable management of rubber plantations in accordance with international forest certification standards” in early July 2018. The objective of this Handbook is to provide the basic knowledge about managing sustainable rubber plantations in accordance with international forest certification standards for rubber plantation owners. Source: VRA