Measures for the Protection of Cultivated Land Quality in Shaanxi Province

Article 1 In order to protect arable land resources, improve the quality of arable land, guarantee the effective supply and quality safety of agricultural products, and promote the sustainable development of agriculture, in accordance with the Agricultural Law of the People's Republic of China, the State Council's Regulations on the Protection of Basic Agricultural Land and other laws and regulations, and in conjunction with the actual situation in this province, the formulation of these measures. Article 2 The quality of arable land referred to in these Measures refers to the ability to meet the safety and sustainable production of crops, as determined by the strength of arable land, field infrastructure, and soil environment of arable land. Article 3 These Measures shall apply to the conservation, construction, supervision and management of the quality of arable land within the administrative area of this province. Article 4 The protection of arable land quality adheres to the principles of scientific planning, rational utilization, comprehensive management and strict supervision. Article 5 The competent departments of agricultural administration of the people's governments at or above the county level shall be responsible for the protection of arable land quality in the administrative areas of the province, and their main duties shall be:

(1) to formulate technical specifications for the protection of arable land quality;

(2) to carry out surveys and dynamic monitoring of the quality of arable land;

(3) to organize and implement the construction of the quality of arable land, and to provide users of arable land with technical guidance and services;

(4) in conjunction with the administrative department of land and resources to implement the assessment of the quality of arable land, the quality of new arable land for acceptance;

(5) other matters provided for by laws and regulations. Article 6 The administrative departments of land and resources of the people's governments at or above the county level shall be responsible for the construction and protection of the quality of arable land in the implementation of land remediation and land reclamation.

The administrative department of environmental protection of the people's governments at or above the county level is responsible for the supervision and management of environmental pollution prevention and control of arable land.

The people's governments at or above the county level of development and reform, finance, housing and urban-rural construction (planning), water conservancy, forestry and other departments in accordance with their respective responsibilities, the quality of arable land to do a good job in the protection of the relevant work. Article 7 Any unit or individual has the obligation to protect the quality of arable land, and has the right to complain and report on behavior that damages the quality of arable land.

Administrative departments of agriculture of the people's governments at or above the county level shall publicize the telephone number for reporting complaints, and promptly deal with units and individuals to destroy the quality of arable land complaints. Article 8 encourages users of arable land to take the following technical measures to improve the quality of arable land in conjunction with local practice:

(1) the application of straw, green manure planting, organic fertilizers and other fertilizer technology;

(2) the use of soil formula fertilization, fertilizer integration and other scientific fertilizer technology;

(3) the choice of deep plowing, deep loosening, rotational crop, less plowing, no-tillage tillage technology;

(4) the people's agricultural administrative departments above the county level shall publish a telephone number to report complaints and deal with units and individuals to damage the quality of arable land in a timely manner. /p>

(d) other technical measures that are conducive to improving the quality of arable land.

The people's governments at or above the county level shall provide policy support for the adoption of the technical measures in the preceding paragraph. Article 9 The people's governments at or above the county level shall take the following measures to improve the quality of arable land:

(1) field infrastructure construction, high-standard farmland construction, and transformation of medium- and low-yield fields;

(2) land remediation, and restoration of arable land destroyed by a disaster;

(3) soil environmental protection and remediation of contaminated arable land;

(4) soil and water erosion, salinization, and soil sandification, acidification management;

(v) other measures conducive to improving the quality of arable land. Article 10 The people's governments of townships and villages shall be responsible for organizing and implementing the protection of the quality of arable land in their administrative areas.

Villagers' committees and rural collective economic organizations shall organize users of arable land to maintain field infrastructure and improve farming conditions. Article 11 non-agricultural construction of arable land in accordance with the requirements of "occupying a complementary one, occupying the best complementary", the quality of the supplemental arable land should be comparable to the quality of the occupied arable land. Article 12 If arable land is occupied for engineering construction projects, the unit occupying the arable land shall strip the soil of the tillage layer in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state and the requirements of the people's governments at or above the county level. The tillage layer soil is generally stripped 20 centimeters downward from the surface. The stripped tillage layer soil shall be used for soil improvement of newly reclaimed arable land, reclaimed arable land, poor quality land or other arable land in the vicinity of the county (district).

The administrative departments of land and resources and the administrative departments of agriculture of the people's governments at or above the county level shall promptly supervise and guide the work of stripping the soil of the tillage layer by the arable land occupying units. Article 13 Users of arable land shall not use pesticides, fertilizers and other agricultural inputs prohibited by the state. Should be safe and reasonable use of fertilizers, pesticides, agricultural films and other agricultural inputs, timely cleanup of non-degradable residual film, input packaging and waste. Article 14 No unit or individual shall do the following:

(1) damage or illegally occupy the field infrastructure;

(2) discharge toxic and harmful wastewater, exhaust gas, dust and livestock and poultry manure that have not reached the standard of treatment to the arable land and farmland water conservancy infrastructure;

(3) occupy the arable land dumping and piling up urban and rural household garbage, construction garbage, medical waste, industrial waste and slag and other solid waste;

(4) burning straw, agricultural film and other debris in the field;

(5) other acts prohibited by laws and regulations. Article 15 Sludge, weathered coal, oil shale, fly ash and urban and rural domestic garbage not treated according to relevant national standards shall not be applied to arable land as fertilizer. Article 16 The water used for irrigation of arable land shall comply with the national water quality standards for farmland irrigation.

Local people's governments at or above the county level shall monitor the quality of irrigation water in a timely manner, and shall promptly report to the people's governments at their respective levels on water quality standards for farmland irrigation that do not comply with national standards for such water quality, and shall take governance and remedial measures.