The invention relates to the technical field of remediation and safe utilization of farmlands polluted by heavy metal, and in particular to a barrier layer based safe utilization method for cadmium-polluted farmlands. The method includes adding a passivator D1 to a surface layer A1, plowing the surface layer and constructing a barrier layer A2; exchanging the barrier layer A2 with a deep layer B1 through deep plowing, plowing the barrier layer A2 to a position where root systems of bulk farm-products seldom contact, and plowing the original deep layer B1 as a plowing layer B2; fertilizing the plowing layer B2 to recover productivity, and adding a passivator D2. According to the characteristics of low background value of heavy metal, low precipitation, neutral or weakly-alkaline soil and the like in north, barrier layer construction is taken as a core, deep plowing and fertilizing are applied for assistance, and accordingly, passivated deep burying of high-cadmium-concentration soil layers is realized; a combined technology applicable to safe utilization of the cadmium-polluted farmlands in north is created, and the barrier layer based safe utilization method has the advantages of good effect, easiness in operation, easiness in popularization and the like.