ACTA Agriculture Shanghai, started publication in February of 1985, sponsored by SAAS and Shanghai Agronomy Association, and issued publicly and bimonthly, is an academic periodical mainly carries the unpublished academic papers, research reports, briefing, and subject summarization that related to agricultural applications.

Now ACTA Agriculture Shanghai has become one source of Chinese technological journal statistic performed by Chinese technological information institute of Ministry of National Sciences and Technology(MOST), and one source of Chinese core journals counted by South-West Technological Reference Center of MOST. Full papers of ACTA Agriculture Shanghai are also included in ChinaInfo digital jounal group by Chinese Technological Information Institute, in WeiPu Information Resource System of South-West Technological Reference Center, and in Chinese Academic Journal (DVD version) of Tsinghua University.

According to Chinese Academic Journal Comprehensive Citation Annual Report(2003) conducted by Reference Search and Analysis Center of Digital Journal Press Chinese Academic Journal(DVD version), of this journal, the influence factor is 0.365, the he guiding rate not annual is 0.8996, and the half-life quotation 5.0.

ACTA Agriculture Shanghai is also a reference source of Agricultural technological Reference Center of Food and Agriculture Organization (AGRIS) and International Agriculture and Biology Center. About 68 percent paper title have been selected by Agrindex, about 80% full paper have been selected by CABI, and a part paper have been selected by SCI. After starting publication, ACTA Agriculture Shanghai have obtained a third prize of national excellent technological journal, a first prize of Chinese Agronomy Association excellent agricultural technological journal, and first prizes of Shanghai excellent technological journal continuously.

The Columns of ACTA Agriculture Shanghai includes crop genetic breeding and cultivation, soil fertilizing and plant protection, agrobiology technology, modern greenhouse and horticulture, pasturage and veterinary, agronomics, agricultural meteorology, agricultural environmental protection, agricultural product processing and freshness preservation, agricultural standardization, agricultural technology and suburb agriculture. Readers of ACTA Agriculture Shanghai are researchers, technical personal, and university and college students.