Planting Structure Optimization in the Arid Area with Constrained Water Resources: A Case Study of Korla, Xinjiang
水资源约束下的干旱区种植业结构优化分析——以新疆库尔勒市为例

In recent years,along with continuing social and economic growth in Xinjiang,increasing contradictions between intensive land exploitation and constrained water resources,food security problems and the interest-oriented planting structure,call for reasonable allocation of water resources and immediate planting structure optimization.Korla,a fast developing city in southern Xinjiang Autonomous Region,western China,is taken as a type example of such contradictions.In 2009,the overall water consumption of the ...