Semi- detailed study of land suitability classification of major field crops in Hajiabad-ashkara
2004
Moghimi, Abolhassan | Zeinoldini, Ali | Moradi Dalini, Abolfath | Bahram, Sadegh
The need for optimum use of land has never been greater than . at peresent, because of very population growth . Although Soil Survey and land classi fication in Iran has a rather long history but most of the time it has been used for land Suitability avaluation . in order to help land developers and agriculturists. The aim of this study is soil classification evaluation and determination of land qualitative for wheat, Corn and potato in Hormozgan province. The studied area located between 56 25 Eand 56 31 E altitule and 27 57 N and 28 3 N longtitude with 2800 Ha area . The information obtained from a Semi- detailed soil survey indicated that Entisols and Aridisols are the main soils. In total , 4 soil families and q phases of families were identified . After soil classification and experiments result, land suitability classes were determined according to” FAO system of land evaluation for special Crops “ , with Simple limitation method and parametric method . The qualitative land suitability classes for corn are S3 and N2 , for wheat are S2 and N2 , forpotato in N2. Key words : Qualitative Suitability , soil limtations , Simple limitation , parametric method, Entisols, Aridisols.
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