Shaanxi, Yulin: Steep slopes are used for planting fruit trees with fish-scale pits. As the Chinese people are becoming more affluent, farmers are diversifying their crops in favor of producing cash crops, such as apples and tobacco.
Picture source: Land Resources in the Loess Plateau of China, edited by The Northwest Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Academia Sinica, published by Shaanxi Science and Technique Press, 1986.