Abstract: Based on the panel data of nine provinces in the Yellow River basin from 2010 to 2019, 18 evaluation indexes were selected from four aspects of resource conservation, environmental friendliness, quality efficiency and livelihood guarantee. The entropy weight-TOPSIS model was used to evaluate the level of agricultural green development in the Yellow River basin, and the spatial difference was measured by the Theil index. The results showed that, from 2010 to 2019, the comprehensive score of agricultural green development level in the Yellow River basin increased from 0.328 4 to 0.459 4; the contribution rate of inter-group difference to the overall difference increased from 54.32% to 57.59%; quality efficiency was the primary indicator affecting the level of agricultural green development. Although the overall level of agricultural green development in the Yellow River basin had steadily increased, there was still a large gap between regions, and the problem of unbalanced and insufficient agricultural green development was still prominent. Reducing the differences between the upstream, midstream and downstream and improving the quality of agricultural development were the key tasks to realize the green coordinated development of agriculture in the Yellow River basin.

Key words: agricultural green development, entropy weight-TOPSIS, spatial difference, Theil index, the Yellow River basin