According to a socio-economic report released by the Ministry of Finance, the country also planted 27.6 million scattered forestry trees during the January-April period, up 0.9 per cent from a year earlier.
Forest damage totalled 142 hectares in the period, down 70.1 per cent from the same period last year, including 13.7 hectares destroyed by fire, down 83.3 per cent, and 128.3 hectares lost to illegal logging, down 67.4 per cent.
Separately, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment said forestry production in April continued to expand from a year earlier.
The area of newly planted concentrated forests in April rose 6.1 per cent year-on-year, while tended forest area reached 309,600 hectares, up 11.3 per cent.
Protected forest area stood at 11.81 million hectares, up 1.8 per cent from a year earlier.
Vietnam’s wood and wood-product exports in April were estimated at USD 1.43 billion, bringing total exports for the first four months of the year to USD 5.42 billion, up 0.4 per cent from the same period in 2025.
The US remained Vietnam’s largest market for wood and wood products, accounting for 49.1 per cent of total export value, followed by China with 15.2 per cent and Japan with 13.5 per cent.
However, exports to the US fell 8.2 per cent in the first quarter from a year earlier, while shipments to China rose 47.2 per cent and exports to Japan increased 6.1 per cent.
Among Vietnam’s 15 largest export markets for wood and wood products, exports recorded the sharpest increase to the Netherlands, rising 2.1-fold, while shipments to South Korea posted the steepest decline, down 20.5 per cent.
