Forestry aid policy also helps farmers From: China Daily | Date: July 28, 2003| Author: | Copyright 2003 China Daily. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

YAN'AN, Shaanxi: Chen Dezhen, from the village of Wugucheng in Wuqi County in Yan'an, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, receives more than 5,000 kilograms of food every year from the government free of charge.

The food supply is in return for Chen's returning more than 4 hectares of his family's cultivated land back into forest land.

"The foodstuff is enough for the nine people in my family," Chen said. He added that the government also pays him more than 1,200 yuan (US$145) each year.

Chen's family now has less than 1.3 hectares of cultivated land, where they plant cash crops such as ...

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