以定西地区为代表的甘肃中部18个县,是国务院“三西”建设的重点。这一地区农村能源问题甚为严重,生活燃料奇缺,农民除了用秸秆做饭烧炕外,每年尚缺4个月左右的燃料,只好烧畜粪、铲草皮、挖草根。这就促成恶性循环的进一步发展,造成极其被动的局面: 1.有机肥料短缺。如定西县,每年烧掉的畜粪,相当于三四十万亩农田的有机肥 Eighteen counties in central Gansu, represented by the Dingxi area, are the focus of the State Council’s “Three Wests” construction. The rural energy problem in this area is very serious. The fuel for life is scarce. In addition to burning kang with straw for cooking, the peasants are still short of fuel for about four months each year, so they have to burn dung, shovel grass and dig grass roots. This has led to the further development of a vicious cycle, resulting in an extremely passive situation: 1. The shortage of organic fertilizers. Such as Dingxi County, burning livestock manure each year, equivalent to three to four hundred acres of farmland of organic fertilizer