This paper put forward grassland agriculture. It would be established and managed to take grassland agriculture as independent industry. The paper raised some different views on defining the middle and west of Jilin province as ‘maize zone’ in recent years. It were enumerated that a series of ecological question were caused by ‘maize zone’. The paper mainly expouned the implication of grassland agriculture, the advantages of grass resources and the significance of initiating grassland agriculture. It was proposed to regulate the proportion of planting maize in the middle and west of Jilin province, that the agricultural structure of monoculture maize should be progressively reformed into ‘the mutual complementary agriculture’ of the rotation of grain and grass in ‘maize zone’. The paper offered the model of ‘the mutual complementary agriculture’. It were analysed to initiate grassland agriculture and the economi- cal, social and ecolegical benefit of rationally reforming agricultural structure step by step. The suitable grass seeds and many measures were recommended for initiating grassland agriculture.