Can trees be planted on farmland? Please answer using relevant laws and regulations

Trees cannot be planted on farmland.

According to Article 31 of the Land Management Law: The state protects cultivated land and strictly controls the conversion of cultivated land into non-cultivated land. The state implements a compensation system for occupied cultivated land. If non-agricultural construction is approved to occupy cultivated land, the unit occupying the cultivated land shall be responsible for reclaiming cultivated land equivalent to the quantity and quality of the occupied cultivated land in accordance with the principle of "as much as is occupied".

If there are no conditions for reclamation or the cultivated land does not meet the requirements, the cultivated land reclamation fee shall be paid in accordance with the regulations of the province, autonomous region, and municipality directly under the Central Government, and the special funds shall be used to reclaim new cultivated land. The people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall formulate plans for reclaiming cultivated land, supervise units occupying cultivated land to reclaim cultivated land according to the plan, or organize the reclamation of cultivated land according to the plan, and conduct acceptance inspections.

According to Article 32 of the "Land Management Law": Local people's governments at or above the county level may require units occupying cultivated land to use the soil in the cultivated layer of the occupied cultivated land for newly reclaimed cultivated land, poor quality or other purposes. Soil improvement for farmland.

Extended information:

According to Article 36 of the "Land Management Law": Non-agricultural construction must use land economically. If wasteland can be used, cultivated land must not be occupied; poor land can be used. Those who own land must not occupy good land. It is prohibited to occupy cultivated land to build kilns or tombs, or to build houses, dig sand, quarry, mine, or borrow soil on cultivated land without authorization. It is prohibited to occupy basic farmland to develop forestry and fruit industry and to dig ponds to raise fish.

According to Article 37 of the "Land Management Law": It is prohibited for any unit or individual to leave idle or deserted cultivated land. If the cultivated land occupied by non-agricultural construction that has gone through the approval procedures is not used within one year but can be cultivated and harvested, the collective or individual who originally cultivated the cultivated land shall resume cultivation, or the land-using unit may organize the cultivation.

If the construction has not started for more than one year, idle fees shall be paid in accordance with the regulations of the province, autonomous region, and municipality directly under the Central Government; if the land has not been used for two consecutive years, the people's government at or above the county level shall take back the land free of charge with the approval of the original approving authority. The land use rights of the unit; if the land was originally owned by farmers' collective, it should be handed over to the original rural collective economic organization for restoration of farming.

Within the urban planning area, idle land that has acquired land use rights through transfer for real estate development shall be handled in accordance with the relevant provisions of the "Urban Real Estate Management Law of the People's Republic of China". If a unit or individual who contracts to operate farmland abandons farmland for two consecutive years, the original contract-issuing unit shall terminate the contract and take back the contracted farmland.