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Study on ecosystem services value of food production in China

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Study on ecosystem services value of food production in China finds that 41.9% of economic value supported by human activities and 64.7% of total value is not calculated in conventional calculations.

Abstract

Field ecosystem can produce ecosystem services and economic production with the annual total value of 1950910 million yuan to human beings contributed by natural and anthropogenic process.In the total value supported by food production,41.9% is supplied by natural process and 58.1% is contributed by human activities,such as seeding,planting,irrigating and so on.However,only the economic value supported by human activities and part of the ecosystem services by natural process are computed which is 64.7% of the total value and the rest 35.3% of total value is not calculated in the conventional calculation of annual output by plantation which is 688106 million yuan.According to these data,the highest level of public financial allowance supported by the government to food production can be 5140 yuan/hm~2·ɑ,due to the public services supplied by plantation in the process of food production.

Citation format

GAO, Xie. Study on ecosystem services value of food production in China. Chinese Journal of Eco-Agriculture, 2005.