Abstract: Controlling and reducing the total amount of agricultural pollution is one of the top priorities of the energy saving and discharge reduction strategy during the Twelfth Five-Year Plan period of China.However,so far there is no such an index system in the current environment management and technology for agricultural pollution reduction.A rational and practical index system will help us to better understand the situation of agricultural pollution and promote agricultural pollution reduction.The basic principles and methods of developing an index system has been elucidated.Considering comprehensively characteristics of the production and discharge processes of different types of agricultural pollution,an index system for agricultural pollution reduction was preliminarily developed for planting,livestock and poultry breeding and aquaculture,in the hope that it would provide parameters key to the study on accounting systems for reduction of some major agricultural pollutants as well as some basic technical support for working out discharge reduction techniques and methods.Based on the problems that may exist in implementing the current agricultural pollution reduction strategies,relevant suggestions are brought forth to further consummate the index system. 

Key words: agriculture, planting, livestock and poultry breeding, aquaculture, pollution reduction, index system