A brief history of Chinese thoughts about soils is described along with the development of their farming experiences since ancient times Even today, people
The earliest Chinese agriculture, as revealed by Chinese archeology, rose earlier than 4000 BC in the middle reaches of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River
Our findings show that agricultural technology in China transitioned through an extremely slow, S-shaped pathway, increasing only ten fold in over 8000 years
Ancient China held leading positions in many fields in studying nature in the world Besides Agriculture, around 2,737 BC In the Tang
The Loess Plateau in China is one of regions where dryland agriculture For a long period, agricultural production of the Plateau was weak and unstable
In China both agriculture and agroforestry originated in forests and developed these early practices [Agricultural Heritage Institute of China, 1984; Du, 1982;