Calculation of county cultivated land productivity and its analysis of influential factors of grain main production area in Northeast China

The northeastern area is the production area of commercial grain, playing an important role in protecting national food security. To determine the size of cultivated land productivity and to clarify effect intensity and direction of various factors to the cultivated land productivity, the northeastern grain main production area Bayan county is used as the study area, digital topographic map and SPOT5 images from 2009 are used as the basic information source, and land detailed survey database and other statistics are used as the basic data source to analyze in the study. Based on the mechanism of formation of grain production capacity, synthesizing natural ecology, and socio-economic factors affecting cultivated land productivity, potential attenuation method is used to calculate cultivated land production capacity and analyze its spatial distribution pattern in the study area. While improved dimensionality reduction that backs propagation neural network is improved by genetic algorithm, path analysis and regression analysis methods are adopted to analyze single effects of each major factor and synergistic effects among factors to effect intensity and direction of cultivated land production capacity was also studied, which breaking the Agricultural Land Classification accounting methods, focused on natural factors in the past. The results show that: 1) taking the corn crop as the basis in 2009, its theoretical, achievable, and actual cultivated land productivity per unit area in study area are respectively 2.33 kg/m2, 1.58 kg/m2, and 1.08 kg/m2; the theoretical, achievable, and actual total cultivated land productivity are respectively 5.47, 3.72, and 2.54 million tons. In addition, theoretical usage potentiality is 0.74 kg/m2, and achievable usage potentiality is 0.50 kg/m2, while theoretical usage intensity and achievable usage intensity both are 0.68. As for the spatial distribution of cultivated land productivity, the theoretical, achievable, and actual cultivated land productivity per unit area show the decreasing trend from the southwest to northeast, and the total theoretical, achievable, and actual cultivated land productivity show the decreasing distribution trend from northwest to southeast. 2) The single effects of 7 main factors including difference vegetation index (DVI), slope, geomorphic type, black soil thickness, organic matter, mechanization degree, and irrigation potential are great; the strongest action intensity to productivity is mechanization degree, and the weakest is black soil thickness. Except for the slope that has a negative effect, the other six factors have a positive effect to cultivated land productivity in the study area. The synergistic effects intensity among the 7 main factors to cultivated land productivity are strong, and the synergistic effect intensity between the other 6 main factors and geomorphological type is the strongest, while the synergistic effect intensity between the other 6 main factors and organic matter is the weakest. Besides, only the synergy action intensity between the main influential factors and slope to cultivated land productivity is negative and synergistic effects among the other 6 main factors all are positive. Meanwhile, according to the total 25 influential factors of cultivated land productivity, synergistic effects of 5-group-relative factors formed from the 7 main factors and the rest of the 18 influential factors (non-main factors) also play a significant part in the cultivated land productivity. Synergistic effects intensity between chemical fertilizer application and mechanization degree is the strongest, which is positive, while synergistic effects intensity between elevation and slope is the weakest and is negative. The effect mechanisms of influential factors show that single effects of main factors and synergistic effects of factors play an important role in the cultivated land productivity. ©, 2014, Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering. All right reserved.