GIS assisted Qualitative Land Suitability Evaluation. Qualitative Land Suitability Evaluation for Rainfed uplandrice(Oryza sativa)and castor bean (Ricinus communis)

      Аннотация: Land suitability evaluation is an examination process of the degree of land suitability for a specific utilization type and/or description method or estimation of potential land productivity. It involves the execution and interpretation of basic surveys of climate, soils, vegetation and other aspects of land in terms of the requirements of alternative forms of land use. This help to preventing land degradation and further generate maximum possible production with minimum input cost. Because, land suitability assessment is very important to recognize the limitations of the area for particular land utilization and potential suitability evaluation provides opportunity to take necessary steps for further improvement and transferring higher level of suitability. Therefore this book is supposed to be useful especially professionals in soil science, crop production, land resource management studies, geographical information, forest ecosystem management studies or anyone else who is involved in natural resource management.

Ключевые слова: Climate, landscape, Soil, Land suitability, Castor beans, Land mapping unit, upland rice.