In order to facilitate forestry economy, the province reviewed and zoned off three kinds of forests and material zones to create favourable conditions for plants to develop cooperation and form linkage to grow forests for raw materials production. 

With over 188,000ha of production forests,  and a strength for sustainable forestry economic development, Yen Bai is striving to become a center of processing high-tech forest products.

In order to encourage the development of the forestry economy, the province has reviewed and planned three types of forests, assigned land and forests to people; planning material areas to create conditions for factories to develop, cooperate and associate planting forests for production of raw materials.

In which, with over 188,000 hectares of planted production forests, the annual output of planted forest timber is about 480,000 cubic meters and is a province with a large wood output in the Northern Midlands and Mountains. Yen Bai has also implemented forest certification according to FSC standards for sustainable forest management for more than 4,000 ha of planted forests.

The agricultural sector has built and submitted to the province for approval a project to develop large timber plantations with the goal of forming a large wood plantation by 2030 with new species of acacia and acacia hybridized with a scale of over 27,000 hectares.

In order to improve the value of forest products, through investment attraction policies, many processing enterprises go into production to increase the value of planted forest wood and close the cycle, creating a linkage of raw material areas with processing plant.

Up to now, the whole province has nearly 500 wood processing establishments of all kinds. Many businesses have boldly invested in relatively synchronous production lines and equipment, manufactured products are laminated boards and wooden chopsticks for export to several countries: Japan, Taiwan, and Korea.

Along with that, a number of investment projects on wood processing are being implemented to carry out restructuring in production and processing activities to increase the value of planted forest timber.

Recently, in Ngon Ngoi village, Minh Quan commune, Tran Yen district, An Viet Phat Group (AVP) has built 2 wood processing factories with a total investment of nearly 800 billion VND. In particular, the Plywood and sawn timber factory has a sawlog capacity of 56,160 tons / year, Plywood over 187,200 tons / year.

The investor also builds a wood pellet factory with a capacity of 150,000 tons / year and products and services to provide sawn timber, plywood, and wood pellets. The factory is expected to come into operation in 2021.

Yen Bai strives each year to plant over 15,000 ha of forests of all kinds; strive for the target that by 2025, the forestry economy will make up about 37% of the entire agricultural sector. The whole province has over 40,000 hectares of big tree forest, about 100,000 hectares of plantation forest which are certified with FSC.