*National Remote Sensing Centre, Balanagar, Hyderabad-500037, Andhra Pradesh
Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, College of Agriculture, ANGRAU, Hyderabad- 500030, Andhra Pradesh
Online published on 19 December, 2013.
Soil suitability analysis was undertaken by digital processing of georeferenced data (climate, soil and land cover) and calculating potential production areas through decision rules framed for rice crop in Arc GIS spatial analyst. The results indicated that about 41.4% area was highly suitable (S1) and 38.6% moderately suitable (S2) for rice cultivation in Guntur district, 65.9% moderately suitable (S2) and 33.1% marginally suitable in Nalgonda district and about 47.3% highly suitable (S1) and 38.1% moderately suitable (S2) in Visakhapatnam districts.
Land suitability, soil suitability, rice, Geographic Information System
