Returning forests to farmland to protect food is a good thing, but it is not a one-size-fits-all approach.
When it comes to Inner Mongolia, the first reaction is that it must be the prairie.
In the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, it is not applicable to the return of forests to farming, and I have checked a lot of information. This article will analyze the policy, geographical location, and characteristics of Inner Mongolia, and treat things not people.
The characteristics of Inner Mongolia are different from those of other regions
First, the geographical factor of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is the sandstorm protection belt of Beijing, Tianjin and Tangzhou. Returning farmland to forests is their first priority.
It is a prairie, and Tongliao is not a major grain producing area. Returning farmland to forests and grasslands is the most important task.
Take a look at the 2023 Inner Mongolia policy on the policy of returning forests to farmland. The article clearly states that cultivated land protection is a basic national policy, but it is also necessary to correctly understand the national cultivated land protection law. The state of the autonomous region has not spoken of the work of turning forests and grasslands into cultivated land, and the autonomous region has not implemented the policy of returning forests to farmland.
Therefore, returning farmland to forests is the primary task of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and returning forests to farmland does not include the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
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For saline-alkali land, it is necessary to resolutely return farmland, rather than change the soil.
Returning farmland to forests is the task of the main grain-producing areas, not the task of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
Third, farming will only make the land worse
Farming in Inner Mongolia requires a lot of water for irrigation, otherwise there will be no harvest.
What we heard was that they had 1,800 catties of grain per acre, so how much water was needed for irrigation?
The source of water is in groundwater, and the drop in the water level will lead to the death of small vegetation due to lack of water, which will further salinize the soil, and the next step of salinization is desertification.
Is this still the grassland in our minds?
The land that has been salinized cannot grow grass.
Location, near the Ant Forest
It is in Jianhua Town, 8 kilometers away is the Ant Forest. So why is there an ant forest here?
It turns out that there are several large deserts in the vicinity of Tongliao.
There are three deserts in Tongliao, namely Kulun Yinsha Bay, Tamin Chagan Desert, and Baogutu Desert.
It means that there is desertification here, do you think farming is still the first priority?
The surrounding area is a dense ant forest, the purpose of which is to control and prevent sand. You are not out of place in this place to farm.
Three-North Shelterbelt
If there is no Three-North Shelterbelt, what will be the key now?
Obviously, Tongliao is in the area of the Sanbei shelterbelt. It is the protective belt of Jingjin Tang.
The three-north shelterbelt is from Heilongjiang, to Xinjiang, northwest, north, and northeast. Spanning 9,000 kilometers, everyone can see the results now. This is a plan that was put forward in 1949 at the beginning of the founding of the country. By 1978, it was divided into phased tasks.
The Three-North Shelterbelt is divided into three stages and eight periods.
At present, it is the sixth phase, and the results are remarkable, and it is the efforts of generations of sand control people.
This is a comment from a Tongliao netizen in 2020: His hometown is in Horqin District, Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, which used to be vast and sparsely populated, with a sea of sand. When I was a child, I had to follow my father to plant 20 trees every day after school. Except in autumn and winter, this is not an isolated act of their family. It's the whole town, every family, every day.
The ecological cost of farming in Inner Mongolia is too great
There is too little rain, there is no large amount of irrigation, and there is basically no harvest.
The groundwater used for watering, the improvement of saline-alkali land means that the large water washes the salt, and does not decompose it.
It is unreasonable for farmers to change their land
As for turning barren land into fertile land, if this is really the Nobel Prize.
In fact, they used cow dung and a lot of water to replace the salt and alkali in it, and the salt and alkali did not disappear, but flowed out.
The cost is soil desertification, which seems to be a temporary economic income, and the resulting ecological adverse impact is too great.
Look back at it
Looking back at the matter of Tongliao Kailu, the farmers really don't understand the law, and the surrounding deserts are still farming, which shows that they don't know that the environment is an ecology, and farming cannot improve the environment.
The village did not discourage peasant households from changing the nature of their land. Instead, if you pay the money, you will give up the seeds, and if you don't pay the money, you will take it back, which shows that you are looking at the economy, and you don't look at the longer term.
Any place has its own characteristics, the policy is not one-size-fits-all, Inner Mongolia Tongliao Kailu is in the three-north shelterbelt area, returning farmland to forest, returning farmland to grassland is the first priority.
Returning forests to farmland is the work and task of the main grain-producing areas, and everything should be analyzed from various aspects and analyzed from a long-term perspective.
Write to the end
Do you think I have a point?
Do you still support farming?
Is it wrong on both sides?