Sustainable changes of agricultural land use in new zealand

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In this paper the author made a point of agricultural land use in New Zealand and tried to make clear characteristics and sustainability of land use changes. New Zealand has experienced drastic changes of land use and development of pastoral farming since European arriving in this land. Because the basis of development of New Zealand pastoral farming is to put livestock out to rich grassland, it is easy to change and to reverse among the sheep, beef and dairy farmings. Therefore, traditional pastoral farming is very flexible and sustainable land use system with using renewable resource. In recent years there have been some changes from traditional pastoral farming to new farming in land use. New farming mainly consists of horse raising, dear grazing and horticulture in new farming. These changes in terms of land use are uni-directional because they are putting high capital in land. Reversion from the new farming to the traditional pastoral farming is not an option.