This paper, based on a perplexing concept of basic farmlands, garden lands and wood lands due to agricultural adjustment, aims to clarify the definition of basic farmlands, by means of data review, theoretical study and logic analysis. The results indicate that the existing definition of basic farmlands can not meet the needs of practice, so it is necessary to redefine the basic farmlands, which shall not be occupied in a time or long term, well equipped with irrigation works, and can be altered or be excellent plantation, and its extension is a production base where can provide food and industrial materials, and its scope is enlarged to include garden lands besides other agricultural lands.