Modeling of Soil Quality for Assessing Soil Health: Improving Soil Functions Its Sustainability

10.29417/JCSWC.202112_52(4).0004

Mohamed El Sayed Abou-Kota；Abdellatif Deyab Abdellatif；Mahmoud Soliman Mohamed；Mona Hefni Mohamed Kenawy

Soil Quality Index ； Soil Health ； physic-chemical Soil Property Database ； Soil Elements Database

中華水土保持學報

52卷4期（2021 / 12 / 01）

218 - 230

英文

Sustainable agriculture comes by employing spatial assessment technology for soil, water and the environment; to get adequate and safe food. The focal point of the study is to push agricultural production, by assessing soil health based on several inputs of physiochemical properties and elements concentration. In this regard, the following results were revealed: The study area is divided into five physiographic units, namely Chalky Plain, Peni- Plain, Sand Sheets, Wadi El-Obiyeid and Playa. On the overall level of study, the soil quality index (SQI) results were a reflection of 15 factors of the soil's physiochemical properties and elements. It also confirmed that the area is capable of cultivation after treating several factors. The most important factors that negatively affected the quality of the soil were the most important of which was the organic carbon OC, as well as the proportions of available elements. Where the proportions of the soil quality for the area ranged between 80 to 93.33 %. Strong and significant correlation coefficient between SQ and other soil variables were obtained their strengths and quantitative of relationships were determined from R^2 data as: bulk density R^2= 0.9784, OC R^2= 0.6596, pH soil R^2= 0.9949, ESP R^2= 0.7156, total N R^2= 0.7895, K R^2= 0.9409, Mg R^2= 0.8937, Ca R^2= 0.9278, Fe R^2= 0.8946, Mn R^2= 0.9710, Zn R^2= 0.9819, Cu R^2= 0.8791 and Cd R^2= 0.9979. The aforementioned results coincided with a previous work which presented no significant correlation coefficients between SQ and Ni R^2= 0.4884 and Pb R^2= 0.3661.

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