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| LOCATION OF VEGETABLE CULTIVATION IN TRADITIONAL RURAL AREAS: A CASE STUDY OF KAIFENG, HENAN PROVINCE |
| ZHU Wen-zhe1, DU Ping-ping1, WU Na-lin1, LI Xiao-jian1,2 |
1. College of Environment and Planning, Henan University, Kaifeng 475004, China;
2. Centre for Coordinative Development in Zhongyuan Economic Region, Henan University of Economics and Law, Zhengzhou 450046, China |
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Abstract This paper studies the location of vegetable cultivation of some vegetable-specialized villages in Kaifeng through the field survey on agricultural production. These villages are all selected by rigorous selection process which have certain representation, certain size and certain level of specialization of vegetable production. And vegetables in this study refer in particular to vegetables which must be consumed freshly. We use ArcGIS10.0 software to analyze the spatial pattern of vegetable production of the selected villages. The research shows that the vegetable planting of each county in Kaifeng has a trend of extending outward from the areas near the city center. Data show that the location advantage of vegetable planting in the areas close to the county center has been weakened. The vegetables are mostly distributed in the areas where are over 10km away from the county center, especially concentrated in the areas where are between 10km and 15km away from and over 20km away from the town center. The vegetable plantation forms a spatial pattern of overall dispersion and local centralization, which is less distributed next to the downtown and widely distributed in the outer suburb areas and the traffic-convenient areas. And the operation modes of vegetables in the peri-urban areas are more diverse than the outer suburb areas. Overall, evidences from this study do not support the circle structure of vegetable cultivation in von Thunen's theory. In summary, this case study finds the deformation of von Thunen's circles under the national conditions and geography of China, which indicates the theory's limitations in practice.
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Received: 30 March 2014
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2015, Vol. 30 
