What do you mean by returning farmland to forests?

The project of returning farmland to forests is an afforestation project in China, which aims at protecting and improving the ecological environment, stopping the reclamation of sloping farmland which is easy to cause soil erosion in a planned and step-by-step manner, and planting trees according to local conditions and restoring forest vegetation according to the principle of suitable land and trees. Its construction includes returning farmland to forest and afforestation in barren hills and wasteland suitable for forest. From 65438 to 0999, Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces took the lead in carrying out the pilot project of returning farmland to forests, which opened the prelude to returning farmland to forests in China. On June 5438+1October 10, 2002, it was decided to start the project of returning farmland to forests in an all-round way.