Yuyao has a subtropical monsoon climate, being warm and moist. The four seasons here are distinct while sunlight is plentiful, having a long history of agriculture and abundant agricultural resources, Yuyao is a comprehensive agricultural area integrated with forestry, animal husbandry, sideline occupations and fishery.

　　So far, the city has 587,000 mu of cultivated land and 917,000 mu of mountain and forest areas. It is also dubbed as the land of Yangmei (red bayberry) and Zhacai (pickled mustard tuber). Over the past few years, its rural economy has finished the transition from a small-scale peasant structure focused on the production of grain, oil and cotton, to a modern and diversified agriculture featured by industrialization and intensification.

　　While the city¨s agriculture featured development has leaped forward along the track of economies of scale, its agricultural industrialization has been expanded substantially which resulted in the forming of six farm produce bases of vegetable, tea, fruit, bamboo shoots, livestock and poultry, and aquatic products. Rural income has witnessed rapid growth thanks to the development of the rural economy. The city¨s total agricultural output value reached 2.47 billion yuan in 1998 and farmers¨ per capital net income stool at 4,451 yuan.