New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research abstracts
Study on spatial autocorrelation in China’s animal feed industry
Xiaodong Zhang1
Yan Zhang1
Huabin Chen2,*
Jianyu Yang1
Weili Wang1
1College of Information and Electronic Engineering
China Agricultural University
Beijing 100083, China
2Institute of Remote Sensing Applications
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing 100101, China
*Author for correspondence: huabin.chen@poyry.com
Abstract The animal feed industry in China
has become an
important industry after 40 years of development and it continues to
grow. This paper adopts an autocorrelation analysis to study the
spatial distribution of the industry. The developmental status of the
feed industry in adjacent provinces is compared and contrasted. The
research shows that spatial autocorrelation is very small, suggesting
that the feed industry is tending towards being more distributed and
this trend is gaining in strength. Using a local spatial
autocorrelation analysis, the author also summarises the character of
the feed industry distribution in several bordering provinces.
Keywords animal feed industry; Moran’s I index;
spatial autocorrelation
A07098; Online publication date 31 January 2008; Received and
accepted 10 August 2007
New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, 2007, Vol. 50:
831–838
0028–8233/07/5005–0831 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2007
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