Exploration of practice and optimization of strategies for conservation of cultivated land resources in contemporary China’s rural areas—Centering on black soil conservation and others

Abstract

Cultivated land resources are the basic elements for rural development and farmers’ survival in China. Strengthening the protection of cultivated land is an important measure to ensure national food security and practice the strategy of “storing grain in the land and technology”, and it is also an inevitable requirement to promote the high-quality development of agriculture. The protection of cultivated land in contemporary China has gone through three stages: the initial exploration period of reconciliation between economic development and the number of cultivated land, the institutional development period of construction occupation and cultivated land quality management and protection, and the transformation and improvement period of “Trinity” in the new era. In the new era, cultivated land protection has achieved phased results, but it still faces practical constraints from the actors, technical environment, institutional environment and so on. In view of this, we should explore the breakthrough path to further promote cultivated land protection from the aspects of strengthening organizational guidance and technical training, strengthening the top-level design of differentiated cultivated land protection, strengthening the research and development of new technologies and the construction of agricultural technology extension system.