Guizhou gives a new lease of life to idle land
Aerial photos show fragmented fields in a village in Qianxi, Guizhou province, reorganized into orderly plots after rehabilitation. Aerial photos show fragmented fields in a village in Qianxi, Guizhou province, reorganized into orderly plots after rehabilitation.The mountainous land, once prone to runoff that washed away water, topsoil, and fertilizer, has been converted into arable fields through soil and water conservation work.The local government has, in recent years, carried out small watershed management and implemented stone terraces, soil-and-water conservation forestry, and land-closure measures, reviving land that had lain idle for years.
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