Fruitful Control of Desertification in AnhuiEast China's Anhui Province has effectively turned more than 100,000 ha. of arid and desertified land into vegetated areas in the past decades.As a result, greenery has so far covered 32.4 percent of local arid and desertified land, whose grain yield has grown by 10 to 20 percent. The province has some 700,000 ha. of arid and desertified land, mostly in northern Anhui. Of them, 130,000 ha. are desertified land, which pose a big threat to local ecological environment and hamper local economic development. Dangshan County, which suffers from serious drifting sand in the province, has done a good work in controlling shifting sand, growing trees and grass, and developing agricultural production in desertified areas in the past 40 years. So, forested areas in the county have risen from the past 10 percent to the current more than 52 percent. Local people in the county also make great profits from growing fruit trees on 50,000 ha. of former arid land, with annual output reaching 700 million kg. Dangshan has now become one of China's top 100 fruit-growing counties. |
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