scholarly journals ASSESSMENT OF LAND USE CONDITIONS BY AGRICULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS OF OMSK REGION

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 91-98
Author(s):  
Ольга Долматова ◽  
Ol'ga Dolmatova ◽  
Юрий Рогатнев ◽  
Yuriy Rogatnev
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Steppe Zone ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
Agricultural Organizations ◽  
Labor Resources ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
Means Of Production

The article presents the results of applying the methodology for assessing the quality of land to ensure effective agricultural production. On the basis of correlation-regression analysis, indicators were chosen, that ensure high and medium tightness of communication, necessary for the formation of effective use of land by agricultural organizations in the context of municipal districts of Omsk region. Using the variation coefficient, which shows the relative measure of the spread of data, a set is defined. Based on the selected indicators, in accordance with the scaling factor scale, an index assessment of the conditions was carried out, which showed that the agricultural organizations of the steppe and southern forest-steppe zone of Omsk region are most favorable for natural conditions and land properties. Not so definitely, but, basically, the situation of advantage in the supply of labor resources to organizations of the steppe and southern forest-steppe zone was confirmed. However, in terms of the availability of the main means of production, the best indicators are for organizations of the southern forest-steppe zone, which in the end provided them with an advantage in the anthropogenic conditions of using the land in front of other zones. In general, the overall quality of land use conditions in the areas of the southern forest-steppe was higher than in other areas. This has had a decisive impact on the level of efficiency of agricultural land use in the districts of the region. In general, the areas of the southern forest-steppe have a higher efficiency of land use and the efficiency of crop production.

scholarly journals A Comparison of Approaches to Regional Land-Use Capability Analysis for Agricultural Land-Planning

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 458
Author(s):  
Tara A. Ippolito ◽  
Jeffrey E. Herrick ◽  
Ekwe L. Dossa ◽  
Maman Garba ◽  
Mamadou Ouattara ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Arable Land ◽  
Agricultural Activity ◽  
Field Samples ◽  
Agricultural Potential ◽  
Fertility Data ◽  
Using Data

Smallholder agriculture is a major source of income and food for developing nations. With more frequent drought and increasing scarcity of arable land, more accurate land-use planning tools are needed to allocate land resources to support regional agricultural activity. To address this need, we created Land Capability Classification (LCC) system maps using data from two digital soil maps, which were compared with measurements from 1305 field sites in the Dosso region of Niger. Based on these, we developed 250 m gridded maps of LCC values across the region. Across the region, land is severely limited for agricultural use because of low available water-holding capacity (AWC) that limits dry season agricultural potential, especially without irrigation, and requires more frequent irrigation where supplemental water is available. If the AWC limitation is removed in the LCC algorithm (i.e., simulating the use of sufficient irrigation or a much higher and more evenly distributed rainfall), the dominant limitations become less severe and more spatially varied. Finally, we used additional soil fertility data from the field samples to illustrate the value of collecting contemporary data for dynamic soil properties that are critical for crop production, including soil organic carbon, phosphorus and nitrogen.

scholarly journals Socioeconomic Impacts on Agricultural Land use in the Northeast

1978 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-74
Author(s):  
Douglas E. Morris ◽  
Albert E. Luloff
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Soil Improvement ◽  
Agricultural Land Use ◽  
Timber Production ◽  
Crop Acreage ◽  
Socioeconomic Impacts ◽  
Grapes Of Wrath

Joad said, “You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin’ about stuff.”John Steinbeck, The Grapes of WrathPast agricultural programs encouraged the withdrawal of cropland from agricultural production. With the removal of crop acreage restrictions and despite the favorable relationships of the 1972–1974 period, all of this land has not been immediately activated into crop production. Some programs encouraged shifts of cropland to pasture, timber production, or to soil improvement uses. Land converted to these alternatives is potentially available for crop production, but whether or at what rate it will be reemployed remains problematic.

scholarly journals Changes in the groundwater quality of the main useful aquifer as a result of the hazard of nitrates from agricultural sources

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-53
Author(s):  
Sebastian Zabłocki
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Groundwater Quality ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Potential Hazard ◽  
Dominant Type ◽  
Type Of Land Use ◽  
Groundwater Hazard ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Indirect Protection

Abstract The article presents the results of research, conducted in central Poland, where agriculture is the dominant type of land use. This activity is considered as a common potential hazard to groundwater quality because of the use of nitrate fertilizers, especially for small groundwater intakes used for the purpose of rural water supply. For this kind of intake seven scenarios of groundwater quality hazard were elaborated based on the results of the hydrodynamic modelling research in this area including the following: calculation of volume and time of leakage through the aquitard formations to the main useful aquifer, verification of the indirect protection zone and definition of the size of the well capture zone. The scenarios considered the current groundwater quality hazard as well as changes in agricultural land use or changes in fertilizer doses needed to decrease groundwater hazard by nitrates in the intake.

scholarly journals A Study on the Relationship between Land Use Change and Water Quality of the Mitidja Watershed in Algeria Based on GIS and RS

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 3510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dechao Chen ◽  
Acef Elhadj ◽  
Hualian Xu ◽  
Xinliang Xu ◽  
Zhi Qiao
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Vegetation Coverage ◽  
Water Quality Control ◽  
Urban Settlement ◽  
The Relationship

Many catchments in northern Algeria, including the coastal Mitidja Basin in the north central part of the country have been negatively affected by the deterioration of water quality in recent years. This study aims to discover the relationship between land use change and its impact on water quality in the coastal Mitidja river basin. Based on the data of land use and water quality in 2000, 2010 and 2017, the relationship between land use change and surface water quality index in the Mitidja Watershed was discussed through GIS and statistical analysis. The results show that the physical and chemical properties of the Mitidja river basin have obvious spatial heterogeneity. The water quality of upstream was better than that of downstream. There was a significant spatial relationship between the eight water quality indicators and three land use types, including urban residential land, agricultural land and vegetation. In most cases, settlements and agricultural land are the dominant factors leading to river pollution, and higher vegetation coverage helps to improve water quality. The regression model revealed that percentage of urban settlement area was a predictor for NH4-N, BOD5, COD, SS, PO4-P, DO and pH, while vegetation was a predictor for NO3-N. The analysis also showed that during this period, urban settlement areas increased sharply, which has a significant impact on water quality variables. Agricultural land only had a significant positive correlation with PO4-P. The results provide an effective way to evaluate river water quality, control water pollution and land use management by landscape pattern.

Percentage land use in the watershed determines the water and sediment quality of 22 marshes in the Great Lakes basin

1999 ◽  
Vol 56 (10) ◽  
pp. 1781-1791 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barb Crosbie ◽  
Patricia Chow-Fraser
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
Best Management Practices ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Sediment Quality ◽  
Soluble Reactive Phosphorus ◽  
Agricultural Runoff ◽  
Water And Sediment ◽  
Water And Sediment Quality

Data from 22 Ontario marshes were used to test the hypothesis that distribution of forested, agricultural, and urban land in the watershed determines the water and sediment quality of Great Lakes wetlands. The first three components of the principal components analysis explained 82% of the overall variation. PC1 ordinated wetlands along a trophic gradient; species richness of submergent vegetation decreased with PC1 scores. PC2 reflected the content of inorganic solids and phosphorus in sediment and the ionic strength of the water. Both PC1 and PC2 scores were positively correlated with percent agricultural land, whereas PC1 scores were negatively correlated with forested land. Correlation between PC1 and agricultural land improved when best-management practices were considered. Accounting for common carp (Cyprinus carpio) disturbance did not confound the relationship between land use and water quality. PC3, driven by soluble reactive phosphorus and nitrate nitrogen concentration in the water, was not correlated with land use. Concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and Metolachlor were correlated with urban and agricultural land, respectively, and may be useful as land use surrogates. Watershed management favouring the retention of forested land, or creation of buffer strips to trap agricultural runoff in the drainage basin, should help maintain aquatic plant diversity in coastal wetlands.

scholarly journals Resources based factors of competitiveness of agricultural enterprises

Management ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 368-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Matyja
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Managerial Competencies ◽  
Agricultural Enterprises ◽  
Know How ◽  
Intangible Resources ◽  
External Conditions ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Profitability Ratios

Summary Among many different definitions of competitiveness it is difficult to pinpoint the most appropriate one. In the paper it was defined as the ability to be profitable by effective use of available resources. The profitability ratios (ROS, ROA, ROE and value index) were proposed as measures of competitiveness and resources were indicated as one of the group of factors that has an impact on it. Precisely, the purpose of the paper was to examine the relationship between selected resourced based factors and competitiveness of agricultural enterprises. The study was done with the use of correlation analysis on the basis of statistical data on selected Polish companies operating in agriculture. The main finding was that the analyzed resources (the level of labour, size and quality of agricultural land and size of assets) were weakly correlated with competitiveness. This observation means that other factors have stronger impact on agricultural company’s competitiveness. They can refer to intangible resources (such as relational capital, know-how, managerial competencies, technological resources etc.) and external conditions (such as climate, legal issues) of agricultural enterprises.

Priority setting in agricultural land-use types for sustainable development

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 136-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nevin Akpinar ◽  
Ilkden Talay ◽  
Sema Gun
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Sustainable Land Use ◽  
Agricultural Land Use ◽  
Land Use Decisions ◽  
Multicriteria Methods

AbstractEven in developing countries that are faced with ecological and socio-economic problems, agricultural areas are constrained by land-use laws to be developed in particular ways. This being the case, the major issues in these areas are a better quality of life and sustainable use of the limited resources. This necessitates planning for sustainable development and evaluating various qualitative and quantitative data in a single framework. Multicriteria or multipurpose decision analysis methods are appropriate for this purpose. Using these methods, physical, economical and social data, as well as planning goals, can be combined and evaluated in the context of sustainable development. These multicriteria methods have been documented widely in a variety of problem areas, but two multicriteria methods, namely AHP (analytic hierarchy process) and ELECTRE II (elimination and choice translating reality), have not been used extensively in agricultural land-use decisions in developing countries. However, in situations where decision-making criteria are non-commensurable, non-comparable or non-countable, and when it is necessary to evaluate the criteria together, as in agricultural land-use decisions, AHP and ELECTRE II methods are warranted. This study reviews these methods briefly and suggests their potential application in the agricultural land-use decision process in a developing country. For this purpose, these methods were sampled in Ziyaret Stream Basin in Adiyaman, which is part of the Güneydoğu Anadolu Projesi (GAP) (South-eastern Anatolian Project) in the Republic of Turkey. The area could be characterized by its rural and agricultural features, although it is under the pressure of Adiyaman urban development. This study shows that both AHP and ELECTRE II methods can be applied successfully for the determination of agricultural land-use priorities, which are an essential part of the quality of life and of sustainable land-use studies.

scholarly journals Assessment of the efficiency of agricultural land use: a case study of France

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 400-408
Author(s):  
Andrey N. Zharov ◽  
Vadim G. Pliushchikov
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Agricultural Land Use ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Use Efficiency ◽  
Single Method ◽  
Labor Resources ◽  
Key Resources

Land is one of the key resources in agricultural production. The use of these resources is signifi antly different from the use of labor resources and financing. It is the land features that affect the assessment of their use efficiency. The analysis of literary sources has shown, there are a large number of approaches and methods to assess the effectiveness of land resources. This indicates a great interest of researchers and practitioners in the issue under study. Each of the researchers offers their own unique methodology for assessing the efficiency of land use. However, it is impossible to distinguish a single method due to various reasons. Nevertheless, it should be noted that the proposed methods are complementary. The main goal of this study was to assess the effectiveness of agricultural land use in France. In this regard we used following methods: analysis and synthesis, graphical method, method of comparisons. The analysis was carried out in three stages. The dynamics and structure of agricultural lands of the country, the harvested areas of the main groups of agricultural crops were analyzed, both cost and natural indicators were calculated. As a result, we can say that the studied indicators should be used in the express assessment of efficiency, they can also be used in the comparative assessment of the efficiency of agricultural land use. For a deeper assessment, in our opinion, it is necessary to use other methods of analysis.

scholarly journals Scientific and methodological approaches to the development of experimental land management projects for the organization of the territory of state scientific institutions and enterprises for the production of organic products

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Dorosh ◽  
◽  
A. Barvinskyi ◽  
G. Kolisnyk ◽  
L. Svyrydova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Organic Production ◽  
Anthropogenic Pressure ◽  
Research Institutions ◽  
State Research ◽  
Organic Products ◽  
Methodological Approaches

The expansion of organic production in Ukraine is in line with global trends in the agricultural sector in the direction of greening of agricultural land use, accompanied by reducing the level of anthropogenic pressure on land resources, ensuring high quality crop products and maintaining a clean environment. The only means of creating spatial conditions for the harmonious functioning of organic land use within the territories of state research institutions and enterprises is the appropriate land management mechanism, which is currently lacking. Therefore, it is important to solve this problem by its creation and implementation in the practice of economic entities. The purpose of this study is to improve scientific and methodological approaches to the development of experimental land management projects for the organization of the territory for the production of organic products within the land use of state research institutions and enterprises. For this purpose the following tasks were solved: analysis of the current state of development of relevant land management projects and their legal support, determination of structural features and placement of relevant elements of the organization of the territory for organic crop production, substantiation of ecological and economic optimization of agricultural land structure and crop rotation.

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