Can Tho City People's Committee has just issued a document agreeing to allow Lung Ngoc Hoang Nature Reserve to implement a honey exploitation contract in the period of 2026 - 2030.
Accordingly, the city agreed with the proposal of the Department of Agriculture and Environment to allow Lung Ngoc Hoang Nature Reserve to contract honey exploitation in the Administrative Services and Ecological restoration subdivisions in the period of 2026 - 2030.
The City People's Committee requires that during the implementation process, the Reserve must strictly comply with regulations on forest fire prevention and fighting, absolutely do not use fire during the honey harvesting process, and at the same time issue cards to households receiving the beekeeping contract to strictly manage exploitation activities.
In case of detecting violations, relevant units must strictly handle them in accordance with the provisions of law. In addition, Lung Ngoc Hoang Nature Reserve is responsible for reporting revenue from annual honey exploitation activities to the Department of Finance for synthesis and monitoring according to regulations.
The City People's Committee assigned the Department of Agriculture and Environment and Lung Ngoc Hoang Nature Reserve to organize the implementation, ensuring efficiency, safety and associated with the goal of nature conservation and sustainable forest economic development.
Lung Ngoc Hoang Nature Reserve is about 2,800 hectares wide, considered the "green lung" of the Mekong Delta. This place possesses a primitive ecosystem, a habitat for more than 330 species of plants and 206 species of animals, including many rare species, listed in the Red Book.
Lung Ngoc Hoang is a typical flooded land of the Hau River West, which has been included in the list of potential for national tourism development according to Decision No. 509/QD-TTg dated June 13, 2024.
Can Tho City is oriented to develop the reserve into a complex including: high-tech park combined with ecology, urban area for education - sports - health care and ecological village.
