Study on fallow strategies in rocky desertifieation area of Yunnan Province

In spite the situation of China’s rocky desertification has been preliminarily controlled, the area of cultivated land with rocky desertification is increasing. Yunnan and Guizhou Province are the important areas of pilot experiments on the fallow system in China, but the traditional patterns of rocky desertification control lack the step of fallow, thus the land use of these regions remain unchanged. Based on the field investigations to the pilot areas, the main characteristics of the fallow pattern in Yunnan Province are summarized in this paper presented as follows. In a region not less than 33.33 hm2, sign fallow agreements with farmers. The government and farmers confirm the fallow region and area together. It is connected with adjustment of the agricultural structure and consistent with economic and social development goals. Meanwhile, the study found some problems in Yunnan’s fallow including subjective regional selection, shortage of supporting funds in county governments, massive reduction in subsidies results in a public psychological gap, and weak construction of work forces. Based on the above problems,it is suggested that， to establish a technical system for the diagnosis and identification of fallow land, to clarify the scale and timing of fallow; ease the financial pressure in county governments by strengthening the integration of agricultural projects and funds, to increase the input of supporting funds; to establish dynamic subsidy mechanism which reflects the land market price, to optimize the mode of subsidization; to improve the organization and construction of work teams; to accelerate the construction of the fallow monitoring system and timely to carry out the performance evaluation of the fallow system.