New policy for returning forest to farmland in 2023

The policy for returning farmland to forests in 2023 is as follows:

1. Policies and measures such as returning farmland to forests, closing mountains for greening, providing grain relief, and individual contracting must be implemented. Grasping forest rights is the core , food supply is the key, seedlings must be planted first, and cadres are the main link to ensure that they are concentrated and connected to form a scale so that they can retreat, be stable, get rich, and not rebound.

2. Subsidy policy.

Grain: 200 kilograms of converted farmland per mu per year in the Yellow River and Haihe River basins, and 300 kilograms per mu per year in the Yangtze River and Huaihe River basins. The subsidized grain is generally wheat raw grain. If different regions really need to adjust the variety of grain supply, it will be determined by the provincial government. The subsidized grain must meet the quality standards stipulated by the state. Subsidy period: 2 years for grassland restoration, 5 years for economic forest, and 8 years for ecological forest.

3. Exemption from agricultural tax. For taxable cultivated land, no agricultural tax will be levied starting from the year when it is returned to farming.

4. After returning farmland to afforestation, intercropping of grains and vegetables is prohibited. On the premise of ensuring the integrity of surface vegetation and reducing water and soil erosion, models such as forest and fruit intercropping, forest medicine intercropping, forest and bamboo intercropping, forest and grass intercropping, and shrub and grass intercropping can be adopted to implement three-dimensional management.

5. The main purpose of converting farmland into forests is to create ecological forests. The proportion of ecological forests created shall not be less than 80% based on the county as the accounting unit, and the proportion of economic forests shall not exceed 20%.

Ecological forests must be built on sloping farmland (including terraces) with a slope of more than 25 degrees, serious water and soil erosion or severe sandstorms, and all areas with important ecological status, and return farmland to farmland according to the principle of first steep slopes and then gentle slopes. After the forest is restored, the mountain will be closed for management and protection.

In gentle slope areas with high rainfall and high biological growth, fast-growing and high-yield forests, bamboo forests and ecological and economic dual-use forests can be vigorously developed, and economic forests can be appropriately developed. For more than 20% of the economic forest land, only seedlings can be subsidized. fee.

6. The object of the grain subsidy for converting farmland to forest is individual farmers who implement the method of converting farmland to forest. For afforestation on sloping cultivated land, sandy wasteland, and wasteland that has not been contracted to households and is fallow, only seedling subsidies will be provided per mu.