Abstract: The Yunnan plateau characteristic agriculture is confirmed as one of four main agricultural productive models according to the Ministry of Agriculture, China. This paper preliminary analyzes the purpose, basic principles and missions of development leisure agriculture in Yunnan based on the advantages from the diversity of natural resources, ethnic culture and agricultural social economy via review of literature and investigation methods. Meanwhile, the advice for development leisure agriculture in Yunnan for both government and business owner is commented based on the preliminary analysis. The analysis result shows that the development leisure agriculture is the important and indispensable part for Yunnan agriculture and it brings more benefits such as increasing farmer incoming, raising the agricultural products, improving rural ecological conditions, promoting development of social and economical in rural community.