China issues plans for sustainable development of agriculture

Chen Xiaohua, vice minister of agriculture, said in Beijing on the 20th that China will implement the red line management of water resources. by 2020, the country's agricultural irrigation water consumption will be maintained at 372 billion cubic meters, and the effective utilization coefficient of agricultural irrigation water will reach 0.55. we will develop an area of 288 million mu of high-efficiency and water-saving irrigation.

Chen Xiaohua made this statement at a policy briefing held by the State Council on the same day. He said that a few days ago, many ministries and commissions jointly formulated the National Plan for Sustainable Agricultural Development (2015-2030) (hereinafter referred to as "the Plan").

In terms of controlling environmental pollution, the Plan points out that it is necessary to prevent and control farmland pollution, comprehensively control aquaculture pollution, and improve the rural environment. The application of chemical fertilizers and pesticides will have zero growth by 2020, and aquaculture wastes will be basically comprehensively utilized by 2030. Agricultural film and pesticide packaging wastes in major agricultural producing areas will be basically recycled, and crop straw will be fully utilized.

The "Plan" also points out that it is necessary to improve the quality of cultivated land, appropriately reduce cultivated land, ensure that the amount of cultivated land is more than 1.8 billion mu, and build 800 million mu of high-standard farmland with a concentrated series and guaranteed harvest by drought and waterlogging by 2020. To restore agricultural ecology, by 2020, China's forest coverage will reach more than 23%, and the comprehensive vegetation coverage of the country's grasslands will reach 56%.

At present, a new round of measures to return farmland to forest and grassland is being implemented. Chen Xiaohua said that the "moderate reduction of cultivated land" mentioned in this plan is an important measure.

With regard to the grasp of "degree", Chen Xiaohua said, for example, "sloping farmland, wetlands, grasslands, lakes and so on above 25 degrees should be returned in an orderly manner through projects such as returning farmland to forest and grassland and returning grazing land to grassland." In addition, the areas seriously polluted by heavy metals and the funnel areas with serious over-exploitation of groundwater need to be reformed by adjusting the planting structure, selecting crops with less water consumption, reducing multiple cropping index and so on.

Chen Xiaohua said: in the final analysis, agricultural development should be suitable for agriculture, suitable for forest, and suitable for animal husbandry.