The Dak Lak provincial People’s Committee are seeking the government’s permission to build four more cassava starch processing plants, though there are four plants in the locality, which cause serious environment pollution.

Investors are willing to spend money to build modern garbage treatment plants which would generate electricity and make compost fertilizer. However, they need the amounts of garbage big enough to run.

Local people in Huong Hoa district of Quang Tri province now go to the forests everyday to pull up huyet dang (Sargento doxacuneata) plants for sale.

Many areas in the northern provinces have become stripped bare with plants plucked to be sold to Chinese merchants who have been collecting nearly all kinds of plants in Vietnam.

Scientists have urged competent agencies to encourage the cultivation of rare medicinal herbs, when natural herbs have got nearly exhausted due to the overexploitation.