النطاقات الملائمة للزراعة بأراضي الاستصلاح في محافظة البحيرة باستخدام نظم المعلومات الجغرافية

Abstract EN

This study explores some aspects of vertical development in agricultural reclamation lands in Behaira Governorate, through identifying the weights of the factors affecting the cultivation of the main plants cultivated in the study area.

The suitable Zones for the cultivation of wheat, maize, potatoes, and grapes.

The study adopts the descriptive analytical method and follows topical approach, especially the Commodity.

It relies on two methods, first, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) using Arc GIS 10.3 program in measuring the weighted overlay levels of the main plants in the area.

Second, Remote Sensing in calculating the salinity index from the satellite image.

The results are summarized into five categories.

First, building models to measure the spatial suitability of the main plants cultivated in the study area using Weighted Overlay.

Second, the suitable zone for wheat cultivation was concentrated in the northeast of the study area in West Nubaria Kasim, comparing the villages of this zone with the villages that occupy the largest area actually cultivated with wheat, it is revealed that the largest part of the area is concentrated in four villages, most of which are located in the northwest of the region.

Third, the area of medium suitability for the cultivation of maize occupied a percentage about 21.3% of the total agricultural land area in the study area.

Which concentrated in five villages: Mustafa Ismail, Hussein Abu Al Yusr, Sayedna Suleiman, Al Jaar, and Al Shuja, in which the actually cultivated area is shrinking.

Fourth, shrinkage of the appropriate Zone area for planting potatoes in the study area, its percentage does not exceed 11.7% of the total agricultural land area in the region, it is also concentrated in the northwestern part of the study area, compatible with the areas actually planted with potatoes.

Fifth, the limited distribution of the appropriate zone for planting grapes to a limited area, its percentage does not exceed 14.3% of the total agricultural land area, it was distributed over a limited area in the villages of Kafr Dawud and Bani Salameh in the south of the study area compatible with the area actually cultivated in them.