Green development of agriculture is an important direction for sustainable development of agriculture,and is of great significance in accelerating the modernization and high-quality development of agriculture and rural areas,as well as full achievement of rural revitalisation.Inner Mongolia is an important agricultural and animal husbandry region in China,and an important base for the supply of high-quality agricultural and livestock products.During its long-term development,it has gradually formed a unique industrial structure with equal emphasis on planting and animal husbandry.To analyse and study the level of green agricultural development in Inner Mongolia,it is inevitable that attention needs to be paid to the main characteristics of its agriculture and animal husbandry,and a development evaluation index system different from that of other provinces and cities in China needs to be constructed.Accordingly,based on the collection of data related to the development of agricultural production in Inner Mongolia from 2011 to 2020,this study investigates and constructs an evaluation index system for the level of green agricultural development by combing the literature and referring to the research results of relevant scholars in four dimensions,including the status of resources and environment,the level of green production,quality and efficiency characteristics and the degree of livelihood security,and then applies the entropy value method to the evaluation indexes The evaluation indicators were then reasonably assigned with the entropy value method,and the green development level of Inner Mongolia’s agriculture was calculated and analyzed based on this method,and the spatial differences in the green development level of agriculture in different regions of Inner Mongolia were analyzed by applying the Theil Index.The results show that,during the study period,the overall level of agricultural green development in Inner Mongolia has shown an upward trend.By region,the highest level is found in the western part of Inner Mongolia,followed by the central part of Inner Mongolia,and the lowest in the eastern part of Inner Mongolia.Within the east and west regions,Hulunbeier,Erdos and Bayannur have the highest scores.In terms of regional differences,there is a certain volatility,showing a steep rise in the overall gap from2011-2015,while the overall gap from 2016-2020 is characterised by a steady contraction.The formation of the overall gap mainly comes from the intra-group gap,with the difference in the eastern part of Inner Mongolia contributing the most,followed by the western part of Inner Mongolia,and the central part of Inner Mongolia the least;the gap between groups shows a trend of first expanding and then decreasing,but the overall change is relatively stable.Through an in-depth analysis of the evaluation results,the main problems in the current development of each region are clearly understood,countermeasures and suggestions are put forward accordingly,such as increasing the management of environmental protection in agricultural and livestock production and building a supply base for high-quality agricultural products. |