“退耕还林”是改善生态环境的主导措施,水土保持工作的关键和突破口。是一项长期的、巨大的系统工程,涉及到环境、经济、社会等诸多方面。笔者就豫西地区“退耕还林工作提几点建议。科学确定退耕还林规模是做好退耕还林的基础。豫西地区是一个十年九旱的山区,80%以上的人口长期居住在农村。根据人口专家预测,21世纪中期我国人口将达到16亿。这 Returning land for farming to forestry is the key measure to improve the ecological environment and the key and a breakthrough point in water and soil conservation. Is a long-term, huge systems engineering, involving the environment, economy, society and many other aspects. The author of the western part of Henan Province, ”returning farmland to forest work to make some suggestions.Scientically determine the size of returning farmland to forest is a good basis for returning farmland to forest.Yexi Province is a mountainous area of ​​nine drought in ten years, more than 80% of the population living long-term In rural areas, population experts predict that by the middle of the 21st century our population will reach 1.6 billion