SWOT analysis on Dongguan urban agriculture

With the development of urbanization, the urban agriculture has been an important part of metropolitan economy. The urban agriculture is closely linked with the urban economic development and people's life, and plays important roles in subsistence guarantee, social stability, ecological balance, tourism and leisure et al. Urban agriculture is the development direction and the reality choice of Dongguan agriculture. This paper analyzes the advantages, weaknesses, opportunitieses, threats of urban agricultural development in Dongguan city with SWOT analysis method. Meanwhile, this paper points out that urban agriculture in Dongguan city has the position advantage, convenient transportation, great market potential, policy advantage and technological advantage; the weaknesses includ the development space shrinking, low national quality, the production and operation dispersion and the low technical content; the opportunities are government support and big tourism agriculture development space; the threats are that the agricultural environment problems are prominent and the bias aganist agricultural should be changed.