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Assessment of Agricultural Sustainability of Bahariya Oasis using Geo-informatics techniques

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Digital Soil Mapping, soil evaluation and land use change

Abstract

Globally, Food security is consider one of the most issues for humanity due to rapid population growth thus sustainable natural resources assessment is required. Well assessment and management of soil can aid in achieving food security. Agriculture sector in Egypt is facing some obstacles related to sustainability. These include scarce land and water resources, degradation of environment and high rate of population growth. This study focuses on evaluating of agricultural sustainability development in Bahariya oasis, western desert of Egypt. Maps of physiographic and soils were produced using analysis of multispectral Sentinal-2 image with spatial resolution 10 m dropped over digital elevation model (DEM), A shuttle radar topography mission (SRTM) 1-arc-second v.30 DEM. Fifty soil profiles were dug to represent geomorphological units within study area. Soil productivity, environmental security, environmental protection, economic viability, and social acceptability of proposed management options were calculated within the study's landscapes using the Framework for Evaluating Sustainable Land Management (FESLM). The results revealed that the investigated area classified into lands that are marginally below the requirement of sustainability with an area of 534.34 km2 and the rest of study area are not meet sustainability requirements. The sustainability challenges in the investigated area are associated with productivity, economic viability and social acceptability. This research suggest some practices to achieve sustainable development in the study area for instance practicing farmers on modern ways of well management and soil conservation, increase level of health and school care, facilitation of loans for farmers and increasing markets number. outputs from this study can provide decision makers with valuable data that help them to ensure achieving of sustainable management within study area.

DOI

10.21608/ejss.2022.143674.1507

Keywords

agricultural sustainability, Remote Sensing, GIS, FESLM, Bahariya Oasis

Authors

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Shokr

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Tanta university

Email

mohamed_shokr@agr.tanta.edu.eg

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Orcid

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First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Jalhoum

MiddleName

El-sayed

Affiliation

Soil department of national authority of remote sensing and space science (NARSS)

Email

m.galhoum@outlook.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

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First Name

Abdelaziz

Last Name

Belal

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS)

Email

belalabd@gmail.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

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First Name

Mostafa

Last Name

Abdou

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences

Email

mostafaabdou900@yahoo.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Hend

Last Name

Abdelhameed

MiddleName

Hussein

Affiliation

Soil and Water Department, Faculty of Environmental Agricultural Science, Arish University, 4556, Egypt

Email

hend_hha2009@yahoo.com

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Orcid

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Volume

62

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

35269

Issue Date

2022-06-01

Receive Date

2022-06-08

Publish Date

2022-06-27

Page Start

85

Page End

100

Print ISSN

0302-6701

Online ISSN

2357-0369

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https://ejss.journals.ekb.eg/article_246268.html

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246,268

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Original Article

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19

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Soil Science

Publication Link

https://ejss.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Assessment of Agricultural Sustainability of Bahariya Oasis using Geo-informatics techniques

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Created At

22 Jan 2023