Figure 5
From: The evaluation of land consolidation policy in improving agricultural productivity in China
Location of selected land consolidation projects. Map was generated using ArcGIS 10.3 (http://www.esri.com/). Notes: The average size of selected land consolidation parcel was 5.56 km2 and the largest project covered an area of 69.64 km2. Among the selected 5328 projects, the earliest projects (n = 560) completed in 2006 and the latest projects (n = 2376) completed in 2010. By provinces in China, Shandong completed a highest number of 824 projects (total area = 3549.49 km2), and Tibet and Hainan did not complete any project during 2006 to 2010. On average, land consolidation projects in Jilin and Guizhou had the largest (11.86 km2) and smallest (1.92 km2) mean parcel size, respectively. The selected land consolidation projects can be further grouped to three types described previously: a total of 4162 projects focused on farmland consolidation, the average parcel size was 5.80 km2; another 1053 projects focused on land exploitation with average parcel size of 4.88 km2; the remaining 113 projects focused on land reclamation and the average parcel size was 3.15 km2.
