Title: Application of Geospatial Technology for Land Evaluation and Suitability Analysis for Transplant Aman Rice in Bangladesh
Abstract: An efficient crop production system requires proper planning and timely management of available agricultural land areas under an appropriate land budgeting scheme. Obviously such a scheme includes an evaluation of land capability and determination of suitability of each of these areas for cultivation of different agricultural crops and thereby, maximum crop productivity can be largely ensured. The role of land characteristics is extremely important in agricultural crop production activities. Such characteristics are determined by a number of issues namely land type, surface elevation, drainage pattern etc. All these factors collectively determine the suitability of a given area for a particular type of crop cultivation. As such, evaluation of land suitability is very important in order to build up an efficient crop production network. In the present study, land evaluation has been performed through suitability analysis for Transplant Aman rice (Autumn rice) cultivation in relation to land inundation type, soil toxicity and ground water level under a Geographic Information System (GIS) environment. A suitability map has been produced that shows the suitable area for Transplant Aman rice cultivation in Bangladesh.
Keywords: Transplant Aman rice, Land evaluation, Land suitability, GIS.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-05-26
Language: en
Type: article
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