In agriculture, a terrace is a leveled section of a hilly cultivated area, designed as a method of soil conservation to slow or prevent the rapid surface runoff of irrigation water. Often such land is formed into multiple terraces, giving a stepped appearance.

The famous terrace landscape in China is rice terraces in Yuanyang County, Yunnan Province. Located all around Yuanyang Old Town, those rice fields have been carved on the Mountain by the Hani people for centuries.