Abstract
This study focuses on identifying the potential lands for growing groundnut in Dien Chau district of Nghe An province (Vietnam), where groundnut is one of the major crops and brings high income for farmers. Based on the ecological requirements of groundnut, six criteria, including Soil Type, Soil Texture, Soil Depth, Slope, Average Temperature, and Average Total Rainfall in the planting season, were used. The Analytic Hierarchy Process method, commonly used in agricultural land use planning, was utilized to determine each criterion's weights via experts’ opinions. A pairwise comparison matrix was established to support this assessment process. The results revealed that Soil Texture showed the highest weight (0.31727) for groundnut farming, which was followed by Average Temperature (0.21131), Soil Type (0.17426), and Soil Depth (0.13982). Slope and Average Total Rainfall were the lowest weight factors, with 0.08122 and 0.07612, respectively. The weighted sum overlay analysis was implemented by ArcGIS software to generate the spatial distribution of land suitability of groundnut. The land suitability map indicated that 6830.07 ha (22.26%) of the studied area was highly suitable (S1), 10413.85 ha (33.95%) was moderately suitable (S2), 4336.76 ha (14.14%) was marginally suitable (S3), and 424.99 ha (1.39%) was not suitable (N). The total area of constrained area, including Waterbody and Built-up Land, was 8671.39 ha, accounting for 28.27% of the total area. Finally, the proposed land for groundnut cultivation was 12928.69 ha. The outcomes of this study may be regarded as a good reference for local government in agricultural land use planning.
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