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Table 4. Identified land types in Khe Tran
Land types (Pahy) Description
Cutect vườn Land for garden
Cutect màu Land for agriculture
Cutect a tong Land for peanut farming
Cutect along Land for forest plantation
Cutect vá Land for cemetery
Cutect cho tro Land for rice farming
Cutect tiêu Land for pepper farming
Cutect cao su Land for rubber farming
Cutect âm bút Land for natural forest
Cutect cỏ Land for grass/bare land
Đa pưh Pahy Pahy/O Lau river
Đá so tù moi Tu moi tributary
Cutect ta xu Land for houses
Ân yên cooh 935 Mountain peak of 935
A chuh Rana Rana waterfall
Chooh Rana Sandy area of Rana riverside
Mỏ zeeng Gold mine
Along papứt Big tree forest
Along cacet Small tree forest
Câm foong fứt Bridge
dry land for agriculture, forests, home garden, rice field and rivers. The forests
classification was further divided into plantation, small tree and big tree forests
(see Table 5).
O Lau river is an important part of the landscape near the village. It traverses
the entire village territory, close to the settlements. The second big river, My
Chanh river in the northern part of Khe Tran, is rarely used by the local people.
Forests within and around the village are categorized into three types as
mentioned above. Plantation forests in our survey include Acacia and rubber.
The oldest (8 years) rubber plantation of the village is situated near the main
road, and covers about 10 ha, including some patches of new plantations. The
Acacia plantation begins in the middle of the village and reaches to the upper part,
covering about 160 ha. Small tree forest represents the dominant types of forest
around the village, mainly inside the Phong Dien Nature Reserve, and consists
of young Myrtaceae and Rubiaceae forests. Big tree forest (or primary forest) is
distant from the village, situated at more than one day’s walk, inside the reserve
area.
Bare lands (Figure 7) were caused historically by war, fires, grazing and
shifting cultivation (Le Trong Trai et al. 2001). This land type, dominated by
shrubs and grasses, is the target of reforestation efforts by the government. Acacia
plantations are developed on these bare hills.
The rest of the village’s landscape is divided into settlements, home
gardens (pepper and fruits), bare hills, rivers and roads. If land for plantation is
geographically specialized (Acacia in the upper part and rubber in the lower part),
home gardens can be found near the houses in both parts of the village.