Abstract: Based on the sample data of four counties in Zhejiang Province, the distribution patterns of cultivated land use patterns and the characteristics of land use and farm households in mountainous areas were investigated. The results showed that farmers' behavior of cultivated land use was prevalent in mountainous areas of Zhejiang Province. Most of cultivated land used for transformation was of good quality and suitable for cultivated land. The cultivated land is mainly used for planting economic forest, The number of the labor force was large, the age structure was too large and the proportion of the female labor force was higher than that of the farm laborers, which tended to change the cultivated land use way. Finally, on the basis of summarizing and analyzing the causes of farmers' transformation of cultivated land use, the corresponding countermeasures and suggestions were put forward.

Key words: mountain farmers, cultivated land use pattern, household behavior, sampling survey