Abstract:

Agricultural development established with sustainable ecology, society, environment and resources is the core idea of agricultural sustainable development.Agricultural sustainable development in Hunan Province during 2001-2010 was assessed by setup of the level model of agricultural sustainable development and the entropy method.The results indicated that the overall process of agricultural sustainable development in Hunan Province was on the rise.However, the development of subsystems showed significant differences.Economical system developed the fastest, followed by the social and resource system, the environmental system was the last.Thus, the agricultural sustainable development in Hunan Province was discordant in general.In order to improve the whole sustainable development of agriculture in Hunan Province, it is necessary to take effective economic policies and controls to enhance the coordination of the entire system, based on all factors affecting sustainable development of subsystems and mutual influences among the factors.