Abstract: Taking bare land as the control, this paper studied the effects of different planting modes on the soil permeability of sloping farmlands in purple soil area. For the test six planting modes, the soil permeability was in the order of Eriobotrya japonica＞Citrus limon＞Vetiveria zizanioides hedgerows+corn＞Leucaena leucocephala hedgerows+corn＞Hemerocallis fulva＞corn＞bare land, and decreased with increasing depth. The eigenvalues of soil infiltration were in the order of initial infiltration rate＞average infiltration rate＞stable infiltration rate. The soil permeability had significant positive linear correlations with soil total porosity, non-capillary porosity, initial moisture content, water holding capacity, and organic matter content, and significant negative linear correlation with soil bulk density. The common empirical infiltration model could well fit the soil moisture infiltration processes under the six planting modes, while the Kostiakov equation could not.