The main reason that restricts Hebei's agricultural development is that the geography of the second grade is not too difficult.

1. per capita arable land resources are poor. By the end of 2009, the county's cultivated land area was 30 133.33 hm2, and the per capita cultivated land was 0.0743 hm2. Limited arable land is still the primary way to solve the problem of farmers' food consumption. It is difficult to form an intensive, large-scale and specialized industrial advantage by planting, and it is difficult to get rich by increasing their crop income.

2. The dry land area is large and the crop protection coefficient is low. The cultivated land area of dry land in the county is 13 133.33 hm2, accounting for 43.58% of the total cultivated land area. Because the dry farmland is mostly located on hillsides and terraces, the soil ridge is thin, the organic matter content is low, the plough layer is thin, the pear bottom is thick, the protective measures are poor, and the soil erosion is serious. Moreover, due to climatic reasons, water shortage is serious, which leads to extensive field management of farmers, low crop yield guarantee coefficient and low income.

3. Farmland supporting facilities are lagging behind, and water conservancy facilities are aging and disrepair for many years. Due to the drought in recent 20 years, water resources are scarce, ponds, small reservoirs and motor wells in hilly areas have dried up, and the original pumping stations and canals can not be used normally because of disrepair and lack of water resources, resulting in cultivated land in hilly areas relying on rainwater.

4. The hilly land is small and scattered, and the degree of mechanization is low. Due to the scattered cultivated land and narrow land in hilly areas, it is difficult to carry out machine tillage, machine sowing and machine harvesting operations. Grain production is still dominated by manpower, with high labor intensity, low productivity and high planting cost, which seriously affects farmers' enthusiasm for grain production. The original planting system of wheat-summer corn twice a year has gradually evolved into the current pattern of wheat-summer corn twice a year and spring corn once a year. The planting area of winter wheat decreased from 16666.67 hm2 in 2003 to about 10000 hm2 in 2009.

5. The degree of agricultural industrialization is low. The leading industry of green food is small in scale, its characteristics are not prominent, its leading products have low scientific and technological content, and its innovative characteristics are not obvious. The leading enterprises of green food have weak economic strength and little ability to drive radiation.

6. Farmers' awareness of market economy is weak. After the planned economy is transformed into a market economy, farmers' economic awareness does not meet the development requirements of the market economy, they are not sure about the market demand information, they know little about advanced scientific planting techniques, and they lack sufficient understanding of the quality and safety requirements of agricultural products, resulting in low quality, low grade and low income of agricultural products.

7. The three-level one-household technology popularization network is not perfect. There is no complete agricultural technology extension network in counties, townships and villages (there are institutions in counties and townships, but there are no institutional personnel and demonstration households in villages). Although township-level agricultural technology stations have been equipped with staff and posts, most of the staff of township-level agricultural technology stations are unprofessional and busy with administrative affairs. Due to the shortage of scientific and technological personnel, aging knowledge and serious shortage of investment in science and technology, technical personnel only keep their salaries and do not engage in experiments, have no promotion funds and no new technology reserves, and the functions of science and technology promotion are weak, the technical means are backward, the three-level and one-household agricultural technology extension system is imperfect, and the agricultural technology extension force is weak, which cannot meet the needs of market economy and agricultural modernization.