The Agriculture sectoral development-oriented poverty reduction program (2011-2020) is a guiding document of national poverty alleviation and development work for the agriculture sector. It has been formulated to further accelerate the development of poor areas, and promote common prosperity. The Outline is a sectoral document. The main objectives is: the growth rate of per capita net income of farmers in poor areas will be higher than the national average level; the indicators of basic public services will be close to the national average level; and the tendency of development gap enlargement will be reversed. The document puts forward two of the main tasks are: a.basic farmland and water conservancy, by 2015, basic farmland and irrigation and water conservancy facilities shall be greatly improved in the poverty-stricken areas, and by 2020, agricultural infrastructure significantly improved; b. forestry and ecology, the forest coverage rate in poor areas shall increase 3.5 percentage than the end of 2010. The document proposes the measures for ecological construction, including: continue the key ecological restoration projects in the fields of returning farmland to forest, returning grazing land to grassland, soil and water conservation, natural forest protection, protection forest system construction, and desertification control; establish ecological compensation mechanism with focus on poverty-stricken areas and strengthening ecological compensation in key ecological function areas; strengthen biodiversity conservation, grassland protection and construction, renewable energy development and application in poor rural areas, etc. The document recognizes that poverty alleviation is still long term historic task. People's governments at or above the county level shall formulate the plan for the rural poverty alleviation and development, as an important part of the local economy and social development plan. Poverty alleviation and development projects should be based on rural poverty alleviation and development planning, take poor villages and poor households as the basic units, and focus on solving urgent problems and difficulties faced by the poor rural people. A target group was identified, which falls into four levels, namely, the poverty reduction recipients, the contiguous destitute areas, key counties and poverty-stricken villages. The poverty reduction recipients are rural poor below the poverty line, but have the ability to work. The document addresses enhanced disaster prevention and mitigation capacity. It proposes: to improve natural disaster emergency relief system and affected people living assistance policies; to improve comprehensively the rural road service level and disaster prevention and resilience capacity; and to increase efforts on mudslides, landslides and other geological disaster prevention and control, with emphasis on monitoring and early warning disaster-prone region.
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