Abstract: In this paper, the market value and non-market value of different type agricultural land resources in Wuhan City were estimated by the methods of random sampling, income approach, and contingent valuation. The results showed that the total non-market value of agricultural land resources including cultivated land, horticultural land, forestland and water body was 57.712 billion Yuan, equivalent to 29.51% of the whole city’s GDP in 2004. Cultivated land had a total value of 105.698 billion Yuan, with its non-market value being 19.41% of the total. The total values of horticultural land and water body were 21.932 and 98.994 billion Yuan, and the proportion of their non-market value was 48.45% and 14.23%, respectively. Forestland had a non-market value of 12.472 billion Yuan in total, or 163236 Yuan per hectare.

Key words: Warm winter, Wheat, Sowing times, Spike differentiation