Xinjiang's 10 -year retreat from farmland to 5.4938 million mu

Tianshan News (Reporter Cao Hua Report) On September 8, the reporter learned from the forestry and grassland bureau of the autonomous region that in the past 10 years, Xinjiang has implemented a total of 5.4938 million mu of forests in Xinjiang, which has achieved significant ecological and economic benefits, which not only improves, but also improves. The ecological environment has also led to the development of the forest and fruit industry and promoted the increase in farmers' income.

Qiaizi Village, Xidi Town, Qitai County returned farmland to forest land. Photo by Tu He Long

Xinjiang is vast, far away from the ocean, special geographical location and climate characteristics, which has created a large area of ​​desertification and sandy land, and the ecological environment is extremely fragile. In 2000, in order to improve the ecological environment, reduce soil and soil loss and wind and sand hazards, Xinjiang implemented the project withdrawal from farmland to forests and restored the natural ecosystem. It has been 23 years old. Data show that in the 10 years from 2012 to 2021, Xinjiang implemented a total of 5.4938 million mu of forestry and returning forests, with subsidy funds of 10.645 billion yuan. According to the 2020 assessment, the total value of the implementation of the ecological benefits of the project of returning farmland to forests was 4.095 billion yuan, which is 2.45 times that of the country's total investment in Xinjiang's return to farmland and forestry projects.

It is understood that the key layout of the construction task of Xinjiang's returning farmland and forestry engineering construction is in areas with serious harm of wind and sand, saline -alkali hazards, and important ecological location. Since the construction of key projects such as forestry such as the "Sanbei" protective forests, the area of ​​the artificial afforestation area in the region will be constructed. The significant increase has driven the rapid development of forestry construction, promoted the further coordinated development of ecology and economy, and society, and greatly accelerated the pace of building a land and ecological security system that combines forests as the main body and coal. Data show that during the "Thirteenth Five -Year Plan" period, Xinjiang implemented 4.222 million acres of returning farmland to forests, with a cumulative treatment of 28.3756 million mu of sandy land, and realized the "double reduction" of desertification and sandy land area.

Xinjiang will combine the retreating farmland to the forest and the development of the forest and fruit industry. It adopts a new operating model of "Enterprise+Farmers+Base" to continuously enhance the function of returning farmland to the forest farmer's hematopoietic function, forming a 12 million acres of characteristic forest and fruit industry bases in the Tarim Basin, which has promoted Xinjiang to use it The construction of the forestry industry system, which is dominated by the characteristic forest and fruit industry, has promoted the adjustment and optimization of the structure of the rural planting industry. Today, the area of ​​forest fruit planting in Xinjiang has accounted for 13%of the national forest fruit planting area. Fruits are sold well at home and abroad. The characteristic forest and fruit industry has become the "cash cow" of the majority of Xinjiang farmers. According to statistics, since the implementation of the Xinjiang Returning Powding Forestry Project, 423,600 farmers have benefited from the region, benefiting 1.7 million rural population.

The staff of the Forestry Technology Promotion Station of the Natural Resources Bureau of Qitai County visited the forest land with the villagers at Qiaocun Village, Xidi Town. Picture He Long Photo

Returning farmland and forestry projects have liberated farmers from low -yield and inefficient slope arable land and sandy cultivated land, and transferred to high -benefit industry fields. The survey shows that one labor force can be transferred for every 3 acres of cultivated land, which has created conditions to guide the orderly transfer of surplus labor in rural areas to the non -agricultural industry and towns, and vigorously develop the labor economy, and create a new situation in the development of agricultural industrialization.

It is understood that during the "Fourteenth Five -Year Plan" period, our district will continue to actively strive for national policy support, grasp the implementation of the task of returning farmland to forests, promote the regulation of the flow of farmland to the forest land, and the moderate scale operations, the development of the forest economy according to local conditions, explore the new follow -up industries new The format, further exert the role of retreating farmland to the promotion of ecological and economic construction.

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