皇冠体育app

皇冠体育app sets ceiling on farmland
( 2002-07-18 10:23 ) (8 )

皇冠体育app will strive to keep its dwindling supply of basic farmland at the level of 106.6 million ha to secure food production, says Lu Xinshe, vice-minister of Land and Resources.

皇冠体育app's 126 million ha of farmland would shrink slightly owing to its accelerating pace of agricultural restructuring, urbanization and ongoing efforts to return some farmland to forestry and grassland to improve the environment, the deputy minister said on Wednesday.

He made the remarks at a just-concluded national conference on land and resources planning held in the port city of Dalian in Liaoning Province, northeast 皇冠体育app.

In 2001 alone, 皇冠体育app turned 590,000 ha of its arable land into forestry and grassland to curb soil and water erosion, and lost 44, 000 ha of farmland in agricultural restructuring.

But it was vital for 皇冠体育app's 1.3 billion population that enough farmland was kept to maintain a high proportion of self- sufficiency in grains in normal years and secure food production, said the deputy-minister.

Under Chinese law, other uses for land zoned as basic farmland is not allowed without the approval of the central government, including industrial and other non-farming development.