Abstract
Apples (Malus domestica) are one of the major fruits cultivated in South Korea and worldwide. To both sustain the productivity of apple trees and preserve the land, a land suitability assessment has been conducted. Two methods were used to analyze land suitability, a Most-Limiting Characteristic Method (MLCM) and an Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) with integrated soil and climate information based on the FAO classification framework. The most-limiting characteristic analysis showed that almost all areas were classified as marginally suitable (S3) or not suitable (N), which together accounted for 94.54% of the land in the Republic of Korea. On the contrary, AHP showed that S1 (34.1%) and S2 (44.17%) account for the majority of the land. Keywords: land suitability evaluation, biophysical modeling, GIS, land use planning, multi-criteria analysis, Republic of Korea DOI: 10.25165/j.ijabe.20181102.2522 Citation: Kim H, Shim K. Land suitability assessment for apple (Malus domestica) in the Republic of Korea using integrated soil and climate information, MLCM, and AHP. Int J Agric & Biol Eng, 2018; 11(2): 139–144.
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