Data on Chinese agricultural resources includes population of agricultural regions, farmworker numbers, cultivated and irrigated land area, land for main crops, farm machinery and fertilizer quantities, farm costs, farm income, and production figures for main crops. The dataset originates from the SCIOPS organization and is hosted on NASA EarthData. The specific temporal coverage and volume are unknown.
Use Cases
- Analyze correlations between fertilizer quantities and production figures for main crops.
- Model farm income based on farm costs, cultivated land area, and farm machinery quantities.
- Assess regional agricultural productivity using population of agricultural regions, farmworker numbers, and irrigated land area.
- Forecast production figures for main crops using historical data on land area used for those crops and fertilizer quantities.
Strengths
- Covers multiple key agricultural dimensions including land use, labor, inputs, economics, and output.
- Includes specific metrics for main crops, enabling crop-specific analysis.
Limitations
- The exact number of records, rows, and temporal coverage are unknown, limiting reproducibility.
- Data granularity (e.g., regional breakdown, time frequency) is unspecified, restricting detailed analysis.
Provenance
- Source
- SCIOPS, via NASA EarthData (WDC-D).
- Collection Method
- null
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- China