Recently, the Criminal Trial Circuit Court of the People's Court of Menghai County, Xishuangbanna Prefecture, Yunnan Province publicly pronounced two cases of illegal occupation of agricultural land in the first instance.
The two defendants in two cases were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment and fined for using methods such as stripping bark to destroy trees to grow tea in collective woodlands.
The defendant, Mr. Yan, cut down 800 trees, injected toxic chemicals to destroy 122 trees, stripped bark and destroyed 54 trees, and illegally occupied 31.3 mu of forest land.
He was sentenced to one year and two months in prison and fined 5,000 yuan.
The defendant, Yan Moujian, cut a total of 152 trees, stripped bark and destroyed 98 trees, and illegally occupied 39.2 mu of forest land.
He was sentenced to one year and six months in prison and fined 8,000 yuan.
In recent years, the price of Pu'er tea has risen.
Driven by profits, some villagers went to the collective forest to reclaim forest land to plant tea trees without authorization.
In order to make tea trees grow faster, some tea farmers will kill the surrounding trees in disguise.
Including the injection of potions that caused the trees on the tea hill to dry up and die "naturally", in order to expand the land for tea.
Dao Zhinan Chang Zongbo edited by Li Jiali
Editor in charge: [Liu Xian]