Abstract
"The project of the development of fast-growing and high-yielding forest plantation in key areas" is one of the "Six Major Forestry Projects" promoting the development of the entire forestry in China, aimed at the development of the industrial aspect in forestry. Most of the target areas of this project are the farmlands in plain agriculture districts, and so the success of this project strongly depends on the business condition of the farmers of these lands. The objective of this paper is to clarify the actual conditions of farmers' business and to promote the project, by analyzing the forestry management of farmers in Village S, Henan province, which is located in the North China Plain. In this paper the following facts have become clear ; 1) farmers have anxiety about forestry management, and so they cannot actively invest lands, funds, and labors in this project ; 2) farmers are extremely unfamiliar with the technology of planting trees that ultimately become the main entity of this project ; and 3) the species of the planted trees are homogeneous and there are many single-species forests, and so it is anticipated that this homogeneity would impose adverse effects on the ecosystem conservation in plain agriculture districts and the sustainable development of plain forestry.
