Assessing land suitability in Perak / Ahmad Aminuddin Ahmad Sakri

Agriculture is amongst the most critical commodities in Malaysia, as it is a significant part of the animal and human food. This study assesses the potential area of the agricultural sector to the economic growth in Malaysia for paddy and oil palm because a few issues high competition from nearby co...

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Main Author: Ahmad Sakri, Ahmad Aminuddin
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spelling my-uitm-ir.437962021-04-20T04:39:07Z Assessing land suitability in Perak / Ahmad Aminuddin Ahmad Sakri 2021-03-19 Ahmad Sakri, Ahmad Aminuddin Aerial geography Remote Sensing Geographic information systems Agriculture is amongst the most critical commodities in Malaysia, as it is a significant part of the animal and human food. This study assesses the potential area of the agricultural sector to the economic growth in Malaysia for paddy and oil palm because a few issues high competition from nearby countries, ageing trees, biodiversity, plant infections palm oil and paddy industry in Malaysia. Therefore, the study aims are to estimate suitable agriculture land (oil palm and paddy) in Perak, Malaysia. Therefore, the production of paddy and oil palm in Malaysia will be increasing for the future. In order to achieve the aim of this study, there are two objectives have been determined which are to., i) To carry out AHP method for selection of conditioning factors ranking for agriculture crop., ii) To determine suitability for the agriculture land of the Perak. The data research using satellite images provided by USGS earth explorers such as Landsat 8 (OLI), rainfall data, p.H soil data, which is soil grid, climate and soil fertility, will be used in this study. The second phase is data processing by using geospatial and Remote Sensing (RS), which are Reclassification, and Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP). For the third phase, the result is the analysis of the AHP method based on the characteristic from the calculations, and from that, the land suitable of the Perak plain for both agricultures has been produced by map. This study is beneficial to increase their production of oil palm and paddy helps the development agriculture for both planting. 2021-03 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/43796/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/43796/1/43796.pdf text en public degree Universiti Teknologi Mara Perlis Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Surveying
institution Universiti Teknologi MARA
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language English
topic Aerial geography
Remote Sensing
Geographic information systems
spellingShingle Aerial geography
Remote Sensing
Geographic information systems
Ahmad Sakri, Ahmad Aminuddin
Assessing land suitability in Perak / Ahmad Aminuddin Ahmad Sakri
description Agriculture is amongst the most critical commodities in Malaysia, as it is a significant part of the animal and human food. This study assesses the potential area of the agricultural sector to the economic growth in Malaysia for paddy and oil palm because a few issues high competition from nearby countries, ageing trees, biodiversity, plant infections palm oil and paddy industry in Malaysia. Therefore, the study aims are to estimate suitable agriculture land (oil palm and paddy) in Perak, Malaysia. Therefore, the production of paddy and oil palm in Malaysia will be increasing for the future. In order to achieve the aim of this study, there are two objectives have been determined which are to., i) To carry out AHP method for selection of conditioning factors ranking for agriculture crop., ii) To determine suitability for the agriculture land of the Perak. The data research using satellite images provided by USGS earth explorers such as Landsat 8 (OLI), rainfall data, p.H soil data, which is soil grid, climate and soil fertility, will be used in this study. The second phase is data processing by using geospatial and Remote Sensing (RS), which are Reclassification, and Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP). For the third phase, the result is the analysis of the AHP method based on the characteristic from the calculations, and from that, the land suitable of the Perak plain for both agricultures has been produced by map. This study is beneficial to increase their production of oil palm and paddy helps the development agriculture for both planting.
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title Assessing land suitability in Perak / Ahmad Aminuddin Ahmad Sakri
title_short Assessing land suitability in Perak / Ahmad Aminuddin Ahmad Sakri
title_full Assessing land suitability in Perak / Ahmad Aminuddin Ahmad Sakri
title_fullStr Assessing land suitability in Perak / Ahmad Aminuddin Ahmad Sakri
title_full_unstemmed Assessing land suitability in Perak / Ahmad Aminuddin Ahmad Sakri
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publishDate 2021
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