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Sustainable Agriculture as Influenced by Landform in Qena Governorate, Egypt

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Digital Soil Mapping, soil evaluation and land use change

Abstract

Ensuring sustainability of agricultural is imperative for Egypt's modest national income, with a focus on improving land production and conserving natural resources. The urgency arises due to population growth and new land reclamation, posing sustainability challenges such as soil characteristics, alkalinity, salinity limitations, socio-economic factors, and environmental hazards. This study evaluates the sustainability of agricultural status of some soils in Qena Governorate, integrating biophysical, economic viability, and social acceptability aspects, and examining their correlation with landform types. The sustainability framework encompasses five factors: productivity, security, protection, economic viability, and social acceptability. The productivity index ranges from 0.29 to 0.43, protection factors exhibit values from 0.49 to 0.90, security factors range between 0.56 and 0.90, economic viability index spans from 0.45 to 0.80, and social acceptability varies from 0.47 to 1.00. The study classifies the investigated area into two classes (S3 and S4) based on the sustainable agricultural framework. The region faces challenges in local infrastructure, health facilities, and education. The results underscore a distinct correlation between sustainability indices and geomorphological units, with the Plain Valley consistently displaying the highest values, followed by the Low River terraces, Moderate River terraces, and High River terraces, while the Overflow basin consistently exhibits the lowest values. The findings emphasize that decision-makers can enhance land sustainability in the study area by focusing on two key factors: social and economic considerations, while also accounting for the impact of landform.

DOI

10.21608/ejss.2024.287260.1764

Keywords

Sustainability agriculture, Landform, spatial distribution, GIS, and RS

Authors

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Elsaid Saeed

MiddleName

Ahmed

Affiliation

Soil and Water Department, Faculty of agriculture, AL-Azhar University

Email

elansary0man@gmail.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0001-6747-1235

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

El-Desoky

MiddleName

Ibrahim

Affiliation

Department of Soils and Water, Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Azhar University, Assiut 71524, Egypt

Email

dr.mohamedsaeed84@gmail.com

City

Assiut

Orcid

0000-0001-6747-1235

First Name

Yasser

Last Name

Sayed

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Department of Soils and Water, Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Azhar University, Assiut 71524, Egypt

Email

yasser_soils@yahoo.com

City

Assiut

Orcid

0000-0003-1011-8056

Volume

64

Article Issue

3

Related Issue

46704

Issue Date

2024-09-01

Receive Date

2024-05-04

Publish Date

2024-09-01

Page Start

1,121

Page End

1,138

Print ISSN

0302-6701

Online ISSN

2357-0369

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https://ejss.journals.ekb.eg/article_359084.html

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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

Sustainable Agriculture as Influenced by Landform in Qena Governorate, Egypt

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Created At

23 Dec 2024