Evaluation of development level of agricultural modernization in Guangdong province——Base on factor analysis and cluster analysis

This paper comprehensivly evaluated the development level of Guangdong agricultural modernization by the factor analysis and cluster analysis using Guangdong province agricultural development data in 2013. Through factor analysis，we calculated the comprehensive score of each area in Guangdong province，and the results showed that there were significant differences in four aspects score，which were made by agricultural input，rural economic development level，industrial structure of agriculture and agricultural output benefit；meanwhile，we also concluded that the development level of agricultural modernization had a significant regional differences by the cluster analysis. The strongest is the Pearl River Delta region，eastern and western are in the middle level，and the weakest in northern.