Characteristic Agriculture Breeding and Its Institutional Innovations in Northern Shaanxi

Characteristic agriculture is now an inevitable option under the conditions of agricultural commercialization, marketization and socialization in the world, it is also one of the important channels to promote the agricultural structural optimization in China. Land resources in Northern Shaanxi is rich and also has great potentialities, the agricultural development in the region has achieved some success. So it is not only necessary but also feasible to develop the characteristic agriculture in Northern Shaanxi. Based on the adequate analysis of area characteristics and comparative advantages in the region, this paper put forward the developing orientation and area layout of the characteristic agriculture. Then the paper proposed a series of innovative countermeasures in order to discuss a new way of agricultural development in non- developed region.