China News Service, May 13 (Xinhua) According to the website of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs released the "2019 National Bulletin of Cultivated Land Quality Grades", which divided the country's 2.023 billion mu of cultivated land quality grades from high to low in order from one to ten The average grade is 4.76, which is an increase of 0.35 grades compared to 2014. The cultivated land area evaluated as first to third grade is 632 million mu, accounting for 31.24% of the total cultivated land area.
Data Map: Picturesque pastoral season during spring tillage. Photo by Zhao Chunliang
The communiqué shows that the area of cultivated land evaluated as fourth to sixth grade is 947 million mu, accounting for 46.81% of the total area of cultivated land; the area of cultivated land evaluated as seventh to tenth grade is 444 million mu, accounting for 21.95% of the total area of cultivated land.
The bulletin analyzed the quality of cultivated land in nine regions including Northeast China, Inner Mongolia and along the Great Wall, the Huanghuai Sea, the Loess Plateau, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, southwestern China, southern China, Gansu, and Qinghai-Tibet and the main obstacles affecting agricultural production, and proposed to strengthen farmland construction 1. Suggestions on measures to improve soil and improve soil fertility.
In recent years, the agricultural and rural departments and the relevant departments have coordinated the implementation of the protection and improvement of cultivated land quality, carried out high-standard farmland construction, the protection and utilization of black land in Northeast China, comprehensive utilization of straw, crop rotation fallow, chemical fertilizer and pesticide reduction and efficiency increase, fruit, vegetable and tea organic fertilizer instead of chemical fertilizer , Deep plowing and deep cultivation of agricultural machinery, and utilization of livestock and poultry manure, comprehensive measures were taken to improve the soil and improve the quality of cultivated land.
Cultivated land quality grade evaluation is a basic, long-term and public welfare work of cultivated land quality construction and management. The results of the investigation and evaluation of the cultivated land quality grade released this time will be the evaluation of the food security governor ’s responsibility system and the provincial government ’s responsibility for the protection of cultivated land. Provide scientific basis for assessing and compiling natural resource balance sheets related to the quality of cultivated land; instruct localities to carry out high-standard farmland construction, degraded cultivated land management, delineate permanent basic farmland, and carry out the inspection and acceptance of cultivated land quality and supplement the balance of cultivated land; Recognize the importance of quality protection and create a good atmosphere for the whole society to participate in the construction and protection of cultivated land quality.