Abstract: Modern agriculture is the inevitable result of agricultural development. Evaluating the modern agricultural development scientifically is not only an important way to explain the characteristics and regulations of modern agricultural development, but also a mean to lead its development. By selecting the evaluation indexes which were used frequently in the research field of modern agriculture, and considering the development characteristics and goals of modern agriculture in Ningde, the evaluation index system was established by combining the expert evaluation method with the analytic hierarchy process, which included agricultural input level, agricultural output level, rural social development level and agricultural sustainable development level as criteria layer and 19 indicators as index level. Then, the development level of modern agriculture in Ningde was evaluated.