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Mapping of Available Potassium of Upper Egypt Soils Using GIS

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Soils and water

Abstract

The main activity in Upper Egypt is agriculture, also potassium is one of the essential nutrients for plant. In the past years, scientists expected that the construction of Nasser High Dam in Aswan, Egypt, would prevent the yearly clay sediments reach in potassium that comes with the Nile River flooding water and may negatively affect the future of agriculture on the river banks of the Nile. Therefore, this study was conducted to monitor the levels of available potassium in the soils of the Upper Egypt governorates. 110 samples were taken from the surface and sub-surface layers from 55 sites in the governorates of Aswan, Luxor, Qena, Sohag, Assiut and Minya. The results showed that, the expectation was not totally wrong, since about 2% of soil samples has low (<135 mg/kg) available potassium. However, 30% of them were medium (135-335) and 68% of soil samples were high (>335 mg/kg). The data was drowned in GIS maps to be helpful for the grower and as a record of the lands of Upper Egypt, it monitors the situation in history.  

DOI

10.21608/ajas.2024.266320.1332

Keywords

available potassium, Upper Egypt soils, GIS

Authors

First Name

Mohsen

Last Name

Gameh

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Department of Soils and Water, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.

Email

mohsen.ali@agr.au.edu.eg

City

Assiut

Orcid

-

First Name

Mamdouh

Last Name

Eissa

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Department of Soils and Water, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.

Email

mamdouh.eisa@aun.edu.eg

City

Assiut,

Orcid

0000-0002-5308-5664

First Name

Nadia

Last Name

Roshdy

MiddleName

M.K.

Affiliation

Department of Soils and Water, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.

Email

-

City

Assiut,

Orcid

-

First Name

Osama

Last Name

Ahmed

MiddleName

E.

Affiliation

Department of Soils and Water, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.

Email

-

City

Assiut

Orcid

-

First Name

Reham

Last Name

Abd EL Naeem

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Department of Soils and Water, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.

Email

mreham185@gmail.com

City

Assiut

Orcid

-

Volume

55

Article Issue

3

Related Issue

48987

Issue Date

2024-07-01

Receive Date

2024-01-29

Publish Date

2024-07-31

Page Start

211

Page End

230

Print ISSN

1110-0486

Online ISSN

2356-9840

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https://ajas.journals.ekb.eg/article_371216.html

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https://ajas.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=371216

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371,216

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Original Article

Type Code

62

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Assiut Journal of Agricultural Sciences

Publication Link

https://ajas.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Mapping of Available Potassium of Upper Egypt Soils Using GIS

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Article

Created At

23 Dec 2024