Strictly Prohibit the Occupation of Basic Farmland: Two Ministries
Date: October 27, 2010, Time: 05:07 Source: 5830 Agriculture Website Navigation Author: Agriculture Website Clicks: 87 times
Strictly prohibit the occupation of basic farmland: two ministries. To prevent unauthorized non-agricultural construction under the guise of developing facility agriculture and illegal expansion of construction land scale, the Ministry of Land and Resources and the Ministry of Agriculture jointly issued a notice yesterday (October 25) titled "Notice on Improving the Management of Facility Agricultural Land" (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice") to strengthen the management of facility agricultural land.
In China, the area of facility agricultural land is vast and continues to expand with the development of facility agriculture. The phenomenon of facility agricultural land encroaching on basic farmland occurs frequently. According to data from the Ministry of Land and Resources, in recent years, the scale of arable land in our country has been approaching the "1.8 billion mu red line."
Facility agricultural land refers to land used for production facilities such as livestock sheds for commercial breeding, factory crop cultivation or aquaculture, and their corresponding ancillary facilities. It also includes agricultural facilities such as drying yards outside rural homesteads. According to requirements, facility agricultural land is reviewed by the county government, with supervision from both the agricultural department and the land resources department.
The Notice requires strict control over the scope of facility agricultural land. For cases not within the scope of facility agricultural land, they will be managed as non-agricultural construction land. If construction is indeed necessary, it must comply with land use planning and legally go through the approval process for construction land. At the same time, facility construction should make full use of wasteland, hillsides, tidal flats, unused land, and inefficient idle land, avoiding or minimizing the occupation of arable land, and strictly prohibiting the occupation of basic farmland.
The responsible person stated that all facility agricultural land should be managed as agricultural land. During its use, the purpose of the land shall not be changed, and it is forbidden to arbitrarily or covertly use facility agricultural land for other non-agricultural construction; it shall not exceed the land use standards, and it is forbidden to arbitrarily expand the scale of facility land or covertly expand the scale of facility land through multiple applications; it shall not change the nature of facilities directly engaged in or serving agricultural production, and it is forbidden to covertly use facilities for other operations. He emphasized that leisure and sightseeing projects based on agriculture and various types of agricultural parks do not fall under facility agriculture.
A relevant official from the Department of Farmland Protection of the Ministry of Land and Resources said yesterday that facility agriculture generally does not require project initiation, and related management departments rarely intervene in land use management or conduct land use approval operations. This has led to frequent cases of illegal land occupation under the guise of facility agriculture, often harming farmers' land rights.
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