Abstract：Some principal experience in removal lands from cultivation for afforestation has been summarized.The project should be attached importance to and organized with meticulous care by leaders of all levels.More efforts should be devoted in advertising and enthusiasm of farmers should be ignited by preferential policies.Rules and regulations should be made in order to standardize the operation,individual contract system should be implemented and operating mechanism should be innovated.The way in promotion,the supplementary measures should be refined and several relations should be solved correctly.Natural law should be paid more attention to and scientificalness should be strengthened.The principal problems have been put forward: Lack of comprehensive general plans with clear thinking and outstanding focal point.Trees are overvalued while grass is neglected,environment is overvalued but people's daily needs are neglected,planting is overvalued but closing is neglected.Survival rate in the afforested year is low,programming and vegetation construction patterns is irrational,water resources bearing capacity is not considered,policies are fulfilled,but fulfillment in supplementary measures is failed.
焦居仁. 西北地区退耕还林工程主要经验和问题[J]. 中国水土保持科学, 2006, 4(3): 83-86.
JIAO Ji-Ren. Principal experience and problems of removal lands from cultivation for afforestation project in North-western areas. SSWCC, 2006, 4(3): 83-86.
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