素有“沙蘭楊之鄉”之稱的洛寧縣是全國山區綜合開發和林業科技推廣示范縣。近年來，該縣出臺了一系列優惠政策，鼓勵群眾開展“四荒”造林，對造林大戶每畝獎勵５０元，并優先申報重點項目。目前，該縣沙蘭楊面積已發展到１５萬畝，成為全國最大的沙蘭楊基地建設縣，沙蘭楊也成為全縣農民增收的新亮點。
       
    沙蘭楊是喜光的強陽性樹種,適應性強、生長迅速。對土壤水肥要求較高,在土層深厚、肥沃,濕潤的條件下最能發揮其速生特性。在適宜條件下,10年生即可成大材。河南洛寧縣,9年生高達24米,胸徑43厘米。在低溫鹽堿地、粗沙和干旱瘠薄的地方、則生長不良,土壤輕度鹽漬化(含鹽量 0.3%)或短期積水的地方,對其生長影響不大,而林地溫度過大或地下水位過高。對其生長十分不利,常產生根腐。喜溫濕,在高溫多雨的氣候條件生長良好, 抗寒性差,在絕對最低溫度-31.4℃時,常受凍害,抗病蟲害能力強于加揚,并有阻擋灰塵,凈化大氣的作用。用種子或扦插繁殖。 　　
      
    木材淡黃白色,紋理直,結構細,易干燥加工,纖維長,是造紙和纖維工業優良原料；油漆性能和膠接性能好，是膠合板和人造板工業的重要原料，此外，木材可供火柴桿和家具等用，是分布區內重要用材樹種，也是城鄉綠化的重要樹種之一。



 

Luoning Sacrau Poplar

    Luoning Town owns the praise of the hometown of sacrau poplar for along time. Sacrau poplar is a tree breed which likes sunshine, has stronger adaptability and grows very fast. It can grow into a big tree in 10 years in appropriate conditions. It has a high demand for soil, for example, moderate saline-alkali soil, coarse sandy soil and dry barren land will impede its growing, light salinized soil or wet land have little influence on it, however, excessive humidity land will do a big harm to it. It will grow better in high temperature and rainy weather conditions. Nevertheless, its nature of avoiding cold is bad so that it always suffers disease of cold damage. Besides, it has better quality to resist diseases and insects than Populus canadensis and functions of stop dust and purify air.
      
    This kind of tree gives their birth by seeds or cuttages. It has light yellow and white color, straight veins, smooth structure, long fiber and is easy to be processed, which determine it to be a good choice for making papers and fiber industries. Besides, it has good nature of being painted and spliced so that it's an important material for producing plywood and artificial board industry, its wood can be used to make matchsticks and furniture. It is an important tree species for commercial usage as well as afforestation.