Biodiversity Characteristics of China’s Yi Traditional Agricultural and Sustainable Development

Yi traditional agriculture has the diversity characteristics of environment, crops and livestock. According to the natural environment for crop production, application of mixed cropping, intercropping, intercropping, mixed husbandry and coordination of farming and animal husbandry to simulate natural biodiversity, Yi traditional agriculture obtained the good benefit and maintaining the nature biodiversity. Modern agriculture and instead the diversity of traditional agriculture with a single scale production, whether "taking grain as the key link" or "money as the key link" development mode, the result was the reduction of biodiversity, soil erosion, frequent climatic disasters and cost increase of agricultural production etc.. The selection of sustainable agriculture of Yi area is development appropriate scale agricultural biodiversity production to adapt the environment characteristics, utilization of forest vegetation to develop of forest seed breeding and application of modern biological diversity technical to raise the yield and benefit of agricultural production.