Agricultural land suitability assessment for agricultural productivity based on GIS modeling and multi-criteria decision analysis: the case of Tekirdağ province
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2022
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Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
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info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
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Grains play a significant role in meeting the nutritional needs of the increasing world population. Consequently, the need for new studies on agricultural production and land suitability assessments has increased. The present paper aims to perform agricultural land suitability assessment to evaluate agricultural productivity in Tekirdağ province to determine precise productive agricultural areas. This study combines a variety of datasets to develop a dynamic model using GIS-based multi-criteria decision analysis for land suitability assessment and agricultural productivity. The datasets used in this study are supported by terrestrial samples and processed with spatial technologies. The results of the study indicate that the agricultural potential of the provincial lands is quite high. It reveals that 65.7% of province lands are suitable for agricultural production. Of the remaining lands, 20.3% is marginally suitable while only 8% of the land is unsuitable for agricultural production. In the northwestern part, suitable land for agricultural productivity is higher compared to other parts of the study area. This part also corresponds to the areas where industrial activities are marginal. The results also imply that agricultural activities in grain production areas must be reconsidered and replanned according to the new classification of land suitability assessment. In this respect, our study suggests that the policymakers and the government should take necessary steps to ensure the protection and sustainability of agricultural lands while planning for the industrial and settlement development in grain production areas. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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Agriculture, ALSA, GIS-MCDA, Grains, Thrace, Decision making, Geographic information systems, Productivity, Agricultural land, Agricultural productions, Agricultural productivity, ALSA, GIS-MCDA, Grain production, Land suitability assessments, Multi-criteria decision analysis, Production area, Thrace, Grain (agricultural product), agricultural land, agricultural production, assessment method, data set, GIS, land use planning, multicriteria analysis, policy making, agricultural land, article, controlled study, government, grain yield, multicriteria decision analysis, productivity, rural area, Tekirdag, Turkey, Agriculture, Conservation of Natural Resources, Environmental Monitoring, Geographic Information Systems, Industry
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Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
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Q3
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Q2
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194
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1
