China’s Grain for Green Program: A Review of the Largest Ecological Restoration and Rural Development Program in the World
By Claudio O. Delang and Zhen Yuan Springer, 2015 Chapter 6
This chapter discusses plant selection. The Grain for Green promotes the planting of either economic trees (trees from which a regular income may be obtained from the sale of non-timber products, such as fruits), ecological trees (trees that may be logged), or grassland. More farmers prefer to plant economic trees, because they generate higher and more regular incomes than ecological trees. However, the national standard is for ecological trees to make up 80 % of the total, and this is generally adhered to. In many places, farmers also claim that they do not have a choice of which plants to grow, but can only select from a few species.
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