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Original research article

Spatial Changes and Land Use of Arable Land in China
Kyo Suk Lee1
,
Dong Sung Lee2
,
Se Won Min1
,
ung Chul Kim1
,
Il-Hwan Seo1
,
Doug Young Chung1*
,
,
,
,
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1Department of Bio-environmental Chemistry, Collage of Agriculture and Life Science, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 34134, Korea
2National agricultural cooperative federation, 16, Saemunan-ro, Jung-gu, Seoul 04516, Korea
* Corresponding Author
30 November 2018. pp. 327-338
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Abstract

Numerous concerns have been raised in China over the issues of limited arable land resources and food security in China. Especially, the record levels of soil pollution and the conversion of the arable land become the serious threat to the nation’s capacity to produce adequate levels of staple cereal crops for Chinese people. Most of arable land, only 15% of the country, mainly concentrated on the central eastern coast and along the Yangtze and Yellow river valleys which had the highest sediment deposit among the lands in China. An agricultural land in China was classified into four categories including arable land. The survey of spatial distribution and types of land use by in China established by remote sensing data and conventional aerial photography showed main land use features and the spatial pattern and processes of land use change for 15 regions covering China. The agricultural land area in 2015 was increased by 64.9% from that in 1960 while the changes of the arable land area ranged from decrease of 6.6% in 1980 to increase of 20.2% in 1990. Conclusively, we assume that Chinese government may have to figure out the practically adequate arable land area to produce safe food for people in China, bearing in mind of 135 million ha that is a minimum threshold to ensure adequate food production.

The spatial change in arable land area in China.

Keywords
Land use,
Arable land
Land conversion
China

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  • Publisher :Korean Society of Soil Science and Fertilizer
  • Publisher(Ko) :한국토양비료학회
  • Journal Title :Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer
  • Journal Title(Ko) :한국토양비료학회 학회지
  • Volume : 51
  • No :4
  • Pages :327-338
  • Received Date : 2018-04-19
  • Revised Date : 2018-11-29
  • Accepted Date : 2018-11-29
  • DOI :https://doi.org/10.7745/KJSSF.2018.51.4.327
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