Ecological agriculture is a complex system involving biology, society and economy. It has unique advantages in providing ecosystem services, producing a variety of ecological agricultural products and protecting the environment. The researchers gradually realize the importance of protecting traditional agricultural technology, biological resources and agricultural landscape in the process of developing ecological agriculture. The protection of agricultural cultural heritage cannot only promote the development of ecological agriculture to preserve biological diversity, but also provide material basis and technical support for the development of ecological agriculture. Based on the analysis of the development of China's ecological agriculture and the composition of the value of agricultural cultural heritage, this paper takes the protection of agricultural cultural heritage in an ecological area as the research core, and constructs the value evaluation framework of its agricultural cultural heritage by using the analytic hierarchy process. This paper chooses index weight from different value dimensions of agricultural cultural heritage, such as economy, ecology, history, technology and culture. The results show that the weight value of "economic value" in the value framework of agricultural cultural heritage protection in this paper is the maximum value of 0.271, and the weight of "culture value" is a minimum of 0.151. The protection and development planning of eco-tourism development and industrial development based on the research results, which is suitable for the characteristics of the ecological area, is of certain significance to the protection of agricultural cultural heritage and the development of eco-agriculture.

Qinwen Peng and Bin Zhang. Protection of Agricultural Cultural Heritage: A New Opportunity for the Development of Ecological Agriculture. Academic Journal of Agricultural Sciences (2023), Vol. 4, Issue 1: 1-12. https://doi.org/10.38007/AJAS.2023.040101.

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