Returning Farmland To Forests, Stable &Nbsp; No Rebound.

Photo: Forest cloud and sea scenery in Linzhi mountain area (photo taken in July 15, 2008).

Xinhua News Agency reporter F Bbu Zahi photo

However, how to consolidate the fruits of returning farmland to forests, so as to ensure that the project of returning farmland to forests is truly "stable and not rebound" is a very important issue before us.

We should clearly see that after the conversion of farmland to forests, the farmers in our district can receive the state subsidies for money and grain on a regular basis, and the basic life is guaranteed.

However, the state's financial resources are still limited. If the state subsidies are interrupted once in a while, the life of part of the farmers will probably get into trouble again. This part of the returning farmers will be able to make a living on the land that has been reclaimed from farmland to forests, and there will be large felling and rehabilitation. This will damage the result of returning farmland to forests, and the ecological construction will regress.

Therefore, from now on, we should think of the future life of the returning farmers.

As we know, most of the relocated farmers in our district have not been able to increase their income because they have been living in deep mountainous areas and steep slopes with poor conditions for a long time.

Under such circumstances, to preserve the fruits of returning farmland to forests, we must organize and lead the masses to enhance their hematopoietic function and increase the income of the masses by opening up different channels for increasing income.

We should make full use of the national relocation policy to help the poor farmers who live in bad conditions and have long-term influence on the local ecology.

At the same time, according to the fact that most farmers and herdsmen can raise livestock, we can help the farmers to make full use of all preferential policies for returning farmland to forests, so that they can combine the planting of forests with grass, grow grass and raise livestock, and increase their incomes by vigorously developing animal husbandry.

We should also pay attention to the allocation of forest structure, optimize the structure of land use, and form new income increasing points for farmers and herdsmen through planting timber forests, economic forests and medicinal materials.

In addition, in view of the fact that a considerable portion of the labor force has been left idle after the implementation of the project of returning farmland to forests, the training of skills has been actively carried out to help them find new employment paths, and to pfer the labor force in the agricultural and pastoral areas through labor export and other channels, and continuously increase their labor income.

According to the spirit of the State Council's notice on improving the policy of returning farmland to forests, and based on the reality of our region, we have promulgated the "special plan for consolidating the grain for green project in Tibet autonomous region", and obtained a special fund of 300 million yuan for consolidating the results of the conversion of farmland to forests.

In short, as long as we conscientiously organize and guide the vast number of returning farmers, adhere to the principle of people-oriented, and constantly expand the channels of income increase, we can make the conversion of farmland to forests stable and not rebound.

The project of returning farmland to forests will play a greater role.