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Land Suitability Assessment for Crop Production in Banger Elsoker Region of Egypt

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Last updated: 23 Jan 2023

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Soil science

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Land evaluation is the process of assessing the possible uses of land for different purposes. Land suitability analysis is a method of land evaluation, which measures the degree of appropriateness of land for a certain use. The present study is a quantitative evaluation of land to determine land suitability in Banger Elsokar district for different crop cultivations based on some pedological variables, as soil salinity, soil depth, soil reaction (pH), calcium carbonate and soil texture that are mandatory input factors for crop cultivation. The studied area was classified on the basis of their capability to the classes C2, C3 and C4. The quantitative approach given by FAO (1976) has been used also to classify the area on the basis of their capability to good capability (5700.2 hectares), poor capability (500.62 hectares) and very poor capability (443.77 hectares). Classifying the land on the basis of their suitability , the ranked classes were S1, S2, S3, S4, NS1 and NS2. This study proposes an integrated methodology for analyzing and mapping of land suitability using the Remote Sensing and GIS techniques. The result indicated that the demarcated areas as highly suitable for crops cultivation were 3785.52 hectares for sunflower, 6635.25 hectares for wheat, 6336.19 hectares for tomato, 6200.82 hectares for watermelon, 2581.24 hectares for olive, 3785.52 hectares for grape and 2196.04 hectares for apple. 

DOI

10.21608/jalexu.2017.243909

Keywords

Land evaluation, Land suitability, Land capability, GIS, overlap

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Ahmed

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Binmiskeen

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Research Institute, Agriculture Research Center, Alexandria, Egypt

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First Name

Ehab

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Morsy

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Soil and Agricultural Chemistry Dept., Faculty of Agriculture Saba Basha, Alexandria University, Egypt.

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First Name

Hoda

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Mahmoud

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AbdElfattah

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Soil and Agricultural Chemistry Dept., Faculty of Agriculture Saba Basha, Alexandria University, Egypt.

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Maher

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Nassem

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Gorgie

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Soil and Agricultural Chemistry Dept., Faculty of Agriculture Saba Basha, Alexandria University, Egypt.

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First Name

Magda

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Hussein

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Abou el Magd

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Soil and Agricultural Chemistry Dept., Faculty of Agriculture Saba Basha, Alexandria University, Egypt.

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Volume

22

Article Issue

3

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23953

Issue Date

2017-09-01

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2017-01-18

Publish Date

2017-10-01

Page Start

472

Page End

489

Print ISSN

1110-5585

Online ISSN

2785-9525

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1,789

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Journal of the Advances in Agricultural Researches

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23 Jan 2023