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Agroecological Land Use Potential Of Amik Plain, Turkey, Şeref Kiliç
Agroecological Land Use Potential Of Amik Plain, Turkey, Şeref Kiliç
Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry
The loss of agricultural land due to the development of other land uses has increasingly become an issue of local, regional, and national concern in Turkey. This study was aimed at evaluating land use potential and suitability of 174 land mapping units of 72,544 ha in Amik Plain (Hatay, Turkey) for 21 different land use types. For this purpose, land suitability evaluation was carried out using soil and land data and a PC-compatible ILSEN software package program developed by the SENOL land evaluation system. Our study showed that out of 39 potential groups, 26 combined land uses and land covers …