Data article on soil site suitability analysis using geostatistical and visualization techniques for selected winter crops in Sagar island, India.

ABSTRACT: We assessed soil site suitability for selected winter crops in the coastal saline agro-ecological environment of Sagar Island, India by integrating land limitation and crop suitability evaluation framework of FAO. Grid based (1 km by 1 km) soil sampling and estimation of important soil quality attributes were measured in the laboratory following standard procedures. Geo-statistical and visualization methods were applied to match the soil suitability for selected crops. The weights of crop specific soil parameters have been assigned through PCA analysis. The inverse distance weighting interpolation and reclassification methods were adopted for generation of spatial layers of those soil attributes. Nearly 61% area (14,618 ha GA) of the Island is under agricultural landuse (AL), mostly domina

SUBMITTER: Mandal S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7334586 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature