Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) will launch a green agriculture campaign across five key areas, said MoA spokesperson Ye Zhenqin 叶贞琴 at a press conference covered by Xinhua on 9 May 2017. Focusing on nationally designated agriculture parks and areas, the five campaigns include a
- livestock and poultry waste resource utilisation campaign
- to solve livestock waste management through sustainable use by 2020
- a special fund and awards for innovation
- focused on large-scale farms
- fruit, vegetable, and tea chemical fertiliser organic transition campaign
- to cut total chemical fertiliser use in horticulture and tea by at least 20 percent by 2020
- cut chemical fertiliser use by 50 percent in key production areas (parks and zones)
- C¥600 million allocated
- Northeast China crop straw management campaign
- to utilise 80 percent of crop waste by 2020
- build new capacity to utilise 27 million tonnes of crop stalks annually
- pilot work targeting 60 corn producing counties
- agricultural plastic film recycling campaign
- goal is 80 percent recovery rate by 2020
- pilot work in 100 counties in Gansu, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia
- target crops are corn, cotton, potato
- Yangtze river aquatic biodiversity conservation campaign
- goal is to control or reverse biodiversity loss by 2020
- overfishing is a key focus