Agricultural land sustainability evaluation using remote sensing and GIS in Nile delta area, Egypt

Abstract EN

Sustainable agriculture has many constrains suppress it's continually this raise the importance of evaluating indicators status of agricultural sustainability.

Land sustainability was evaluated in different areas in El-Monofia Governorate, through five indices (productivity, security, protection, economic viability and social acceptability).

The area, lies between latitudes 30^o 20` to 30<sup>o</sup> 50` N, and longitudes 30^o 50` to 31<sup>o</sup> 20`E, The total of study area is about 33961 ha, This study found that more than 60% of the study are achieved sustainability index class II, while 38.7% of the area achieved sustainability index class I.

There for agricultural land sustainability in El-Monofia Governorate requires much more governmental and public efforts through Attention to social and economic factors, Educate farmers to improve agricultural productivity and Using of precision agriculture as a technique maximize agricultural yield.