Classification and Gradation of Cultivated Land Quality in Bishan County of Chongqing, China  

作　　者：SHAO Jing＇an GE Xiaofeng WEI Chaofu XIE Deti 

机构地区：[1]College of Resource and Environment, Southwest Agricultural University, Chongqing 400716, China [2]Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China）

出　　处：《Chinese Geographical Science》2007年第1期82-91,共10页中国地理科学（英文版）

基　　金：Under the auspices of Key Project of Science and Technology of the Ministry of Education (No. 03111);IncubationFund Project of Science and Technology Committee of Chongqing (No. 017079)

摘　　要：The conflicts among food security, economic development and ecological protection are the “sticking point” of undeveloped southwestern mountainous areas of China. The objectives of this study are to identify appropriate inte- grated indicators influencing the classification and gradation of cultivated land quality in the southwestern mountainous area of China based on semi-structure interview, and to promote the monitoring of cultivated land quality in this region. Taking Bishan County of Chongqing as a study case, the integrated indicators involve the productivity, protection, ac- ceptability, and stability of cultivated land. The integrated indicators accord with the characteristics of land resources and human preference in southwestern mountainous area of China. In different agricultural zones, we emphasize different indicators, such as emphasizing productivity, stabilization and acceptability in low hilly and plain agricultural integrative zone (LHP-AIZ), protection, productivity and stability in low mountain and hill agro-forestry ecological zone (LMH-AEZ), and acceptability in plain outskirts integrative agricultural zone (PO-IAZ), respectively. The pronounced difference of classification and gradation of cultivated land, regardless of inter-region or intra-region, is observed, with the reducible rank from PO-IAZ, LHP-AIZ to LMH-AEZ. Research results accord with the characteristics of assets management and intensive utilization of cultivated land resources in the southwestern mountainous area of China. Semi-structure interview adequately presents the principal agent of farmers in agricultural land use and rural land market. This method is very effective and feasible to obtain data of the quality of cultivated land in the southwestern mountainous area of China.The conflicts among food security, economic development and ecological protection are the ＂sticking point＂ of undeveloped southwestern mountainous areas of China. The objectives of this study are to identify appropriate integrated indicators influencing the classification and gradation of cultivated land quality in the southwestern mountainous area of China based on semi-structure interview, and to promote the monitoring of cultivated land quality in this region. Taking Bishan County of Chongqing as a study case, the integrated indicators involve the productivity, protection, acceptability, and stability of cultivated land. The integrated indicators accord with the characteristics of land resources and human preference in southwestern mountainous area of China. In different agricultural zones, we emphasize different indicators, such as emphasizing productivity, stabilization and acceptability in low hilly and plain agricultural integrative zone （LHP-AIZ）, protection, productivity and stability in low mountain and hill agro-forestry ecological zone （LMH-AEZ）, and acceptability in plain outskirts integrative agricultural zone （PO-IAZ）, respectively.＇The pronounced difference of classification and gradation of cultivated land, regardless of inter-region or intra-region, is observed, with the reducible rank from PO-IAZ, LHP-AIZ to LMH-AEZ. Research results accord with the characteristics of assets management and intensive utilization of cultivated land resources in the southwestern mountainous area of China. Semi-structure interview adequately presents the principal agent of farmers in agricultural land use and rural land market, This method is very effective and feasible to obtain data of the quality of cultivated land in the southwestern mountainous area of China.

关 键 词：cultivated land classification cultivated land gradation semi-structure interview Bishan County 

分 类 号：F321.1[经济管理—产业经济] F301.24