HUBEI AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES ›› 2018, Vol. 57 ›› Issue (7): 11-15.doi: 10.14088/j.cnki.issn0439-8114.2018.07.002

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Progress and Prospect on Farmland Abandonment in China

CHENG Xian-bo, YANG Zi-sheng   

  1. Institute of Land & Sustainable Development,Yunnan University of Finance and Economics,Kunming 650211,China
  • Received:2017-10-30 Published:2020-01-14

Abstract: Cultivated land is the basic resources for the survival of human race, and the base for the sustainable development of our agriculture and society as well. By means of analysis and summary about the definition of abandoned arable land concepts, monitoring, measurement, causes, distribution, influence and control methods, land abandonment situation was analyzed and found out the causes. It also discovered the temporal and spatial distribution of abandoned arable land in our country, the influence of land abandonment, and puts forward the methods and prospect of treatment of abandoned arable land. The following results were obtained after research:the first one is that there are different view about the definition of abandoned arable land concepts, the main reason and method of land management,especially the "one-sided" treatment method,that eliminate or restrain the results. Secondly,monitoring and measure in our country still has a big distance compared with monitoring by remote sensing in developed countries. Thirdly, there is a difference on the spatial distribution of abandoned arable land, abandoned arable land got into its peak in 2002,2005 and 2008. Fourthly,the impact of China's current research on abandoned arable land,mainly by the way the influence of the ecological environment and food production. Finally, implement agricultural policies,adjust the structure of production in rural areas, promote land circulation and improve agricultural production conditions are the main treatment methods about abandoned arable land in China.

Key words: abandoned arable land, research progress, government

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