2. Returning farmland to forests refers to withdrawing from grain production and planting trees or grass on sloping farmland and desertified farmland with serious soil erosion or low and unstable grain output and cultivated land with important ecological status. The state implements the system of funds and grain subsidies for returning farmland to forests. According to the approved area of returning farmland to forests, the state provides appropriate subsidized grain, seedling afforestation fees and cash (living expenses) subsidies to those who return farmland to forests for free within a certain period of time.
In the western development from 65438 to 0999, returning farmland to forests did not simply refer to those lands with soil erosion and desertification. In order to speed up urbanization, the state collectively expropriated vast rural land, and then gave appropriate economic subsidies to landless farmers or built resettlement houses, turning rural areas into cities and farmers' hukou into non-agricultural registered permanent residence. The cost of returning farmland to forests you mentioned is all the costs of land acquisition by the government (including land crops, population subsidies, resettlement houses, etc.). ).
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