HUBEI AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES ›› 2024, Vol. 63 ›› Issue (2): 41-49.doi: 10.14088/j.cnki.issn0439-8114.2024.02.008

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Matching pattern of agricultural water and land resources in loess hilly areas from the perspective of water footprint:Taking Heshun County of Shanxi Province as an example

YAN Mei-xia1, GUO Qing-xia1, DING Yi1, KANG Qing1,2   

  1. 1. College of Resources and Environment, Shanxi Agricultural University, Jinzhong 030801, Shanxi, China;
    2. School of Public Policy and Management, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
  • Received:2023-03-22 Online:2024-02-25 Published:2024-03-14

Abstract: From the perspective of water footprint, the spatial and temporal changes of production water footprint and cultivated land area of main crops in rural areas of Heshun County, Shanxi Province, from 2010 to 2019 were analyzed using CROPWAT and standard deviation ellipse model, the spatial-temporal matching pattern of agricultural water and land resources in rural areas in 2010,2014 and 2019 was studied using Gini coefficient and spatial mismatch index, and the direction of regulation was clarified. The results showed that, during the study period, Heshun County’s crop production water footprint, blue water footprint, green water footprint and cultivated land area all showed a downward trend. Green water footprint contributed the most to the total water footprint of crop production in all regions, and the proportion of green water footprint in crop production water footprint in all counties and townships was more than 62.0%. The spatial aggregation of crop production water footprint and arable land resources was increasing in western Heshun County, while the spatial mismatch between crop production water footprint, blue water footprint, green water footprint and arable land resources was increasing in Heshun County, the agricultural water and soil resources in the central and eastern regions of Heshun County were moderately mismatched and severely mismatched, respectively, which would be the key areas for agricultural water and land resources control in the future. Ten townships in the county could be divided into three control areas: water conservation and storage control areas, water and land optimization regulation control areas, and diversion water-saving irrigation control areas. In general, Heshun County’s agricultural water and land resources were out of balance due to social economy, input of production factors and climatic conditions, but were controlled artificially on the basis of the division of control zones, it could still achieve a greater improvement in the matching and coordination level of agricultural water and land resources.

Key words: water footprint of crop production, agricultural water and land resources matching, Gini coefficient, spatial mismatch index, loess hilly areas, Heshun County, Shanxi Province

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