[en]+[zh]Study on Forest Landscape Restoration - ITTO

3 Brief introduction of study area 171
Homalium hainan<strong>en</strong>se, Cinnamomum Parth<strong>en</strong>oxylon, Dalbergia odorifera and
Tectona grandis after afforestation.
The county consists of 17 towns, with 114 administrative villages, 611
natural villages. The site has three state-owned institutions: Nanping farm under
the province, Lingm<strong>en</strong> farm and Diaoluoshan forestry bureau. There are
16 minorities in the whole county, such as Li, Miao, Zhuang etc. In 2009 the
total population is 364,000 and the J:Ian accounted for 44. 8% while other minority
accounted for 55. 2 %. The main dialects are Chinese (Hainanese) , Li
and Miao language. Hainanese is the primary language. In 2009, the GDP of
the county was 3. 81 billion RMB, of which the output value of the first, second
and tertiary industries were 1. 91 billion RMB, O. 75 billion RMB, 1. 15
billion RMB respectively. The ratio of industries was 50. 2: 19.6: 30.2.
3. 2 Brief introduction of Dagan FLR demonstration area
Dagan FLR demonstration area is located in the Qunying town, that in northwest
of Lingshui county. It is the area which main produce grains and economic
crops in the c<strong>en</strong>tral hills. The geographic coordinate is 18° 34'35/1 N,
109 ° 51'05/1 E, the size of the area is about 399. 48 ha, in which the size of
cultivated land is 41. 14 ha (paddy field area is 26. 82 ha) , including three
villages, Dagan, F<strong>en</strong>you and F<strong>en</strong>jie.
Landforms of the areas are mostly low mountains, hills, with the landform
pattern of higher South to lower North, high in the East and West, and
low in the middle with elevation of 30 - 340 m. Species diversity of the region
is rich. The major soil type is brown-yellow soil. The site is suited for the
growth of varied tropical cash crops because of suffici<strong>en</strong>t r~infall, good light
and temperature conditions and suitable climate. Moreover, the loam of
strongly weathered granite is deep and contains much sand, also suitable for
the growth of forests, parks and other woody plants. In the west of demonstration
area there is a stream p<strong>en</strong>etrating north-south section and running through
Lingshui River, which provides irrigation water for agriculture and forestry.
Demonstration area has serious soil erosion and frequ<strong>en</strong>t meteorological
disasters such as drought, typhoons. However, reduction of vegetation and
land conversion due to desertification and human disturbance, such as slash
and burn, managem<strong>en</strong>t and investm<strong>en</strong>t, make the soil erosion ev<strong>en</strong> severe in