Abstract:

Agricultural functions zoning is the base for accurately positioning a county’s agriculture function orientation,promoting the prolongation of regional agricultural additional functions,and promoting traditional agriculture evolving to modem agriculture pattern.The paper is aimed at trying to accomplish the agricultural functional zoning of Hubei Province by using the constellation clustering analysis.Analyzing modern agriculture function orientation from four aspects of production supply,employment and social security,ecological system adjustment,and cultural inheritance and leisure,the paper established the agriculture functional zoning index system of Hubei Province that contained thirty quantitative indices and two qualitative indices.Using the constellation clustering analysis,the paper determined the single function classification type of each county or city according to each star's location.And then,considering the geographical position,socioeconomic and environmental status of the zoning units.The paper worked out the agricultural functions zoning scheme of Hubei Province.The zoning units were county administrative regions.According to the basic principles of agricultural functional zoning,Hubei Province was divided into four agricultural dominant function zones and twelve secondary agricultural functional areas that each dominant function zone contained three secondary agricultural functional areas.