How much land should be used for agricultural facilities?

With the continuous development of modern agriculture and large-scale land management, the current facility agricultural land policy has been unable to adapt to the current situation. A few days ago, the Ministry of Land and Resources and the Ministry of Agriculture issued a notice on improving the management of facility agricultural land (hereinafter referred to as "the notice") to further improve and standardize land use management and clarify the relevant requirements and support policies for facility agricultural land management.

In recent years, with the emergence of new operators and the development of large-scale grain production, some new situations and problems have emerged in rural land management. for example, grain drying fields, storage fields, drying towers, agricultural machinery and agricultural materials warehouses necessary for large-scale grain production are not included in the scope of "facility agricultural land", which has become the "blank point" in the current management. The protection rate of basic farmland in some areas, especially in plain areas, is high, so it is difficult for supporting facilities engaged in large-scale grain production to avoid basic farmland. So how to define the facility agricultural land? What is the standard of facility agricultural land? In this regard, the reporter interviewed Liu Mingsong, deputy director of the cultivated Land Protection Department of the Ministry of Land and Resources.

Production facilities, ancillary facilities and supporting facilities belong to the scope of facility agricultural land.

All kinds of manor, winery and farmhouse land do not belong to facility agricultural land.

Liu Mingsong said: according to the characteristics of modern agricultural production, in order to support the development of facility agriculture and large-scale grain production and standardize land management, facility agricultural land is specifically divided into production facility land, ancillary facility land and supporting facility land.

The land for production facilities refers to the facility land directly used for the production of agricultural products in the project area of facility agriculture. Including: glass or PC board multi-span greenhouse land with steel frame structure in factory crop cultivation; production facilities such as livestock and poultry houses (including passageways in the field), production facilities such as livestock and poultry organic matter disposal and greening belt land in large-scale farming; land for production facilities in aquaculture such as aquaculture ponds, factory breeding ponds and drainage channels; land for breeding and seedling breeding, simple production care room (single floor, less than 15 square meters), etc.

Ancillary facility land refers to the facility land directly used for auxiliary production of facility agricultural projects. Including: necessary technical facilities such as inspection and quarantine monitoring, prevention and control of animal and plant diseases and insect pests in facility agricultural production, and necessary management housing land; necessary supporting livestock and poultry breeding manure, sewage and other waste collection, storage, treatment and other environmental protection facilities land, biomass (organic) fertilizer production facilities land Land for equipment, raw materials, temporary storage of agricultural products, sorting and packaging places necessary for facility agricultural production, and on-site roads in accordance with the provisions of "rural roads".

The land for supporting facilities refers to the necessary land for supporting facilities for large agricultural professionals, family farms, farmers' cooperatives and agricultural enterprises to engage in large-scale grain production. Including: drying field, grain drying facilities, temporary storage places for grain and agricultural materials, temporary storage places for large-scale agricultural machinery and tools, and other land.

"while places for commercial grain storage, processing and agricultural machinery and agricultural materials storage and maintenance; leisure and sightseeing resorts based on agriculture, all kinds of estates, wineries, farmhouses; and all kinds of agricultural parks involving the construction of permanent catering, accommodation, conferences, large parking lots, factory agricultural products processing, exhibition and marketing and other land must still be managed in accordance with the law and regulations." Liu Mingsong stressed.

Supporting facilities for large-scale grain production can occupy basic farmland

For those engaged in large-scale grain production in the south and less than 1000 mu in the north, the land for supporting facilities shall be controlled within 3 mu.

According to the characteristics of modern agricultural production, the notice brings the land for supporting facilities needed for large-scale grain production into the scope of facility agricultural land for the first time, and it is managed according to agricultural land, and there is no need to go through the formalities of examination and approval for the conversion of agricultural land. " Liu Mingsong said.

"some places occupy land illegally and illegally in the name of developing facility agriculture and building 'necessary management and domestic housing', and there is even the phenomenon of 'greenhouse houses' in some places, so how to put an end to this phenomenon?"

Liu Mingsong said: "in order to prevent all localities from transforming facility agricultural land into non-agricultural land without authorization or in a disguised form in the name of domestic housing, the notice removes the land for domestic housing from the scope of land for ancillary facilities, and puts forward specific requirements for the scale of land for ancillary facilities and supporting facilities. In particular, the scale of land for supporting facilities should be reasonably determined according to the needs of large-scale grain production. If the planting area for large-scale grain production is less than 500mu in the south and less than 1000 mu in the north, the land for supporting facilities shall be controlled within 3 mu; if it exceeds the above-mentioned planting area, the land for supporting facilities may be appropriately expanded, but the maximum shall not exceed 10 mu. "

The Circular stipulates that for the construction of supporting facilities involved in large-scale grain production in plain areas, it is indeed difficult to locate sites on other types of land and cannot avoid basic farmland, it has been demonstrated by the competent department of land and resources at the county level in conjunction with the agricultural department that it is really necessary to occupy land and can occupy basic farmland. Those occupying basic farmland must be rezoned in accordance with the principle of equal quantity and quality and relevant requirements. Liu Mingsong explained: "this policy aims to support large-scale grain production and ensure food security, so the notice stipulates that other production facilities and ancillary facilities are still not allowed to occupy basic farmland."

Cancel the audit of facility agricultural land and change it to a record system.

The construction plan and land use conditions shall be announced to the public in the form of open government affairs of townships and village groups, with a time of not less than 10 days.

"in order to standardize land use, the notice stipulates that the land use agreement shall be put on record. After the land use agreement is signed, the township government shall promptly submit the land use agreement and facility construction plan to the competent department of land and resources at the county level and the agricultural department for the record, and construction shall not be started if it does not meet the relevant provisions of facility agricultural land. " Liu Mingsong said.

The notice abolished the county-level examination and approval system of facility agricultural land and changed it to a record system. The conditions of land use shall be agreed upon by rural collective economic organizations and land users, and the management role of township governments shall be brought into full play to standardize the behavior of land use. " Liu Mingsong said: before the use of facility agricultural land, operators should draw up facilities construction plans and negotiate with township governments and rural collective economic organizations about land use conditions such as land use life and land use. After consensus, the construction plan and land use conditions shall be announced to the public in the form of open government affairs of townships and village groups, and the time of announcement shall be not less than 10 days; if there is no objection at the end of the announcement period, the township government, rural collective economic organizations and operators sign a land use agreement. Where the transfer of the right to contracted management of land is involved, the operator shall first sign a transfer contract with the contracted peasant household in accordance with the law and obtain the consent of the contracted peasant household.

The competent departments of land and resources at the county level and the agricultural departments shall timely verify the filing information in accordance with their functions. It is found that there are some problems, such as unreasonable site selection, land for ancillary facilities and supporting facilities exceeding the prescribed area, lack of land reclamation agreement, and filing of non-agricultural construction land in the name of facility agricultural land. If the establishment of the project does not meet the layout of the local agricultural development plan, the construction content does not meet the requirements of facility agricultural operation and large-scale grain production, the construction of ancillary facilities and supporting facilities does not meet the relevant technical standards, and the transfer of land contractual management rights does not meet the relevant provisions, the competent department of land and resources and the agricultural department shall, respectively, inform the township government, rural collective economic organizations and operators within 15 working days. It shall be supervised and corrected by the township government.