Hengyang basin, an important agricultural production bases in Hunan Province, is an area suffered serious droughts. Drought has already restricted severely the sustainable development of agricultural economy. According to the historical drought data and economic statistical data, the vulnerability of agricultural drought is assessed with mathematics model and related optimized method. The result shows that the vulnerability in the middle, eastern and northern parts of Hengyang Basin is higher than that in the southwestern part. This pattern is similar in distribution to the historical drought ...