Agricultural Natural Disasters Mitigation in Hebei Province China

Abstract:

Agriculture by nature is a risky business, not only natural calamities but also other environmental factors such as political system, law, policy, social factors and many others has profoundly affecting the agricultural development. However the current paper mainly concentrates on the four main kinds of natural calamities such as drought, flood, wind hail and frost etc affecting the agricultural development of Hebei province China. In order to evaluate and mitigate the province from the agricultural natural calamities, the panel data from 1990-2012 of four agricultural natural disasters covered and affected areas are analyzed. It defined and measured the rates of disaster reduction and affected, gives the analysis and mitigation of agricultural natural disasters. According to the extent and the areas of distribution of a variety of calamities in the losses of crops, use basic statistical methods to analyze the development trend and the affected areas variation of various calamities, such as it discussed the natural calamity's long term changes in the diversity and complexity of features. Finally from the prospective of macro policy the study responds and concludes some mitigation measures to compete with agricultural natural calamities.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 962-965)
• Pages: 1979-1988
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.962-965.1979
• Online since: June 2014
• Authors: Abdur Rehman, Wang Jian
• Keywords: Disaster Affected, Disaster Covered, Disaster Reduction, Natural Calamities

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