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January 3rd, 2012
Vientiane Times, January 3, 2011
Luang Namtha province needs to train or recruit a large number of workers with the necessary skills to tap rubber trees, with more than 29,000 hectares of rubber now under cultivation in the province. About 10,000 hectares are fully grown and now ready to harvest, while the rest of the trees will mature between 2015 and 2020, according to the provincial Labour and Social Welfare Department. To work the entire 29,000 hectares they will require about 50,000 workers to tap the rubber and carry out other associated tasks, but currently there is a shortage of people with the necessary skills, department official Ms Lathana Phommachan told Vientiane Times on Thursday.
January 3rd, 2012
 Another rubber concession has been approved despite concerns over the environmental impacts caused by industrial tree plantations. Photo from Sekong province; clearing land for a rubber concession. Vientiane Times, January 3, 2012
The government has allocated another sizeable area of land for a Vietnamese firm to grow rubber trees despite concerns over the environmental impacts caused by industrial tree plantations. Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Dr Akhom Tounalom on Friday signed a 40-year land concession for the Lao-Viet joint venture to grow rubber trees on 131 plots of land totaling 4,739 hectares. Senior officials from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Ministry of Planning and Investment, Ministry of Natural Resource and Environment were present at the agreement signing in Vientiane.
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December 21st, 2011
Vientiane Times, December 23, 2011
Chinese investors will plant 1,000 hectares of rubber trees in Xepon district, Savannakhet province, after signing an agreement with the Lao government on Thursday. The company is contracted to plant the trees and will invest more than US$7 million in the province, as well as tap rubber for the next 45 years, General Manager of Guangda-Lao Company Mr Zhong Wen Zhuo said. “We will grow trees in this district of Savannakhet because the provincial governor wants us to develop that area and help reduce poverty,” he said.
December 21st, 2011
Vientiane Times, December 21, 2011
The government has given the green light for a Vietnamese company to study the viability of establishing a rubber plantation and processing factory in Samuoy district, Saravan province. A Memorandum of Understanding on the feasibility study was signed yesterday in Vientiane between Cao Su Quang Tri Company Managing Director, Mr Van Luu, and Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment, Mr Bounthavy Sisouphanthong. The signing was witnessed by the company’s Deputy Director, Mr Nguyen Huu Manh, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Office Deputy Head, Mr Khamphan Meunasithida, and Saravan provincial Planning and Investment Department Director, Mr Sayadeth Vongsaravan. Other officials from both Laos and Vietnam were also present.
December 10th, 2011
Viet Nam News, December 10, 2011
Numerous Vietnamese firms were investing in Laos in fields ranging from agro-processing to hydroelectricity, said Ta Minh Chau, Vietnamese Ambassador to Laos. Chau said investment from Viet Nam had increased rapidly in recent years. He said the total registered capital of Vietnamese businesses in Laos now stood at US$3.7 billion, making it the third largest foreign investor in the country.
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Tags: Attapeu, Champasak, coffee, corn, investment, rubber, sugarcane, Vietnam
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November 22nd, 2011
Tuoi Tre News, November 22, 2011
Vietnam’s Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group started work on the construction of a US$100 million sugar and sugarcane industrial cluster in Attapeu province, southern Laos on November 22. The cluster includes a sugar mill with a capacity of 7,000 tons per day, a 30MW thermal power plant, an ethanol plant with a capacity of 30,000 tons per year and a fertiliser plant with a capacity of 50,000 tons a year. These facilities are expected to create 20,000 jobs for local people when they are put into operation.
September 16th, 2011
Vientiane Times, September 16, 2011
The establishment of large scale rubber plantations is one of the main factors contributing to forest loss in Laos over the past 10 years, Lao land and resources experts announced this week. Deputy Director General of the Land and Natural Resources Research Institute Dr Palikone Thalongsengchanh observed that many rubber plantations have encroached into protected forest areas and pristine water catchment areas.
 Rubber landscape in Muangsing, Luang Namtha He added that past approvals of rubber plantations in most provinces had been conducted without proper surveys, resulting in the loss of many of the country’s big-tree forests.
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