Abstract：Sustainable agricultural land use is the foundation and guarantee of accomplishing sustainable development of agriculture. This paper analyzed the characteristics and exploiting status and main problems of agricultural land resources in Shanxi province, and presented main measures of sustainable agricultural land use in Shanxi province. The main characteristics of agricultural land resources in Shanxi province:geomorphology types are complex and varied, mountains region is much more than the area of level land; loess landform distribute extensively, and natural ecological environment is vulnerable; land types are varied, and the land of fitting forestry and animal husbandry have potentialities; the quality of land is generally lower; regional difference of cultivated area is sizeable. The status of agricultural land use in Shanxi province. The cultivated area is 4.5887 milion hectares, which is 29.26 percent of the total land. Hillside cultivated area is 2.1733 million hectares, which is 47.38 percent in total cultivated area; The forest area is 3.7108 million hectares, which is 23.66 percent in total land; The pastoral area is 2.0199 million hectares, which is 12.88 percent in total land; The garden area is 224.5 million hectares, which is 1.43 percent in total land; The water area is 389.2 thousand hectares, which is 2.48 percent in total land; The undeveloped area of land is 3.8945 million hectares, which is 24.84 percent in total land. The land resources of fitting agriculture is 2.629 million hectares. The main problems of agricultural land use in Shanxi province inclucle:Land utilization is rational, and the structure of land utilization of agriculture and forestry and animal husbandry is not harmonious; Land management is ex tensive, and productivity of land is lower; The ecological environment of land is becoming deteriorated increasingly; The administration of land still ecists many problens, and cultivated land is wasted and damaged seriously. The main measures of sustainable agricultural land use in Shanxi province are:to accelerate steps of returning cultivated area to fo rest area, to adjust structure of agricultural land use, to improve agricultural eco-environment, to reinforce construction of the ecological agriculture, to exploit land resources rationally, to raise productivity of land, to step on the dynamic of renovation of agricultural eco-environment, to prevent degeneration of land, to alleviate natural calamity, to strengthen administration of land, to standardize land market and protect agricultural land resources.
郑国璋. 山西省农业土地资源可持续利用研究[J]. 人文地理, 2002, 17(5): 93-96.
ZHENG Guo-zhang. ON SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL LAND USE OF SHANXI PROVINCE. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2002, 17(5): 93-96.
