Farm pollution, fertilizer overuse targeted

China will launch campaigns to curb pollution from livestock and poultry farms, as well as the excessive use of fertilizers in horticulture, to fight pollution in rural areas, a top agricultural official said on Tuesday.

The Agriculture Ministry will kick off a campaign this year to treat pollution from animal excrement on livestock and poultry farms to improve the rural environment, Han Changfu, minister of agriculture, told a news conference on Tuesday on the sidelines of the two sessions.

"We have made it a clear target that all the excrement from large-scale farms will either go through harm-free treatment or be reused as resources," he said.