ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Quantifying Evaluation and Grading of Cultivated
Land Fertility: A Case Study of Huaping, China
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School of Information Science and Technology, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, China
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Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education on Geography Information Technology
of Western Resource Environment, Kunming, China
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Faculty of Land Resource Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China
Submission date: 2018-05-15
Final revision date: 2018-07-23
Acceptance date: 2018-08-02
Online publication date: 2019-03-25
Publication date: 2019-04-09
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2019;28(4):2685-2696
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ABSTRACT
The level of cultivated land fertility (CLF) determines food production and quality directly.
Therefore, research on evaluating CLF has always been a focus of attention in Chinese academia.
Aiming at shortcomings of methods for evaluating CLF presently, this paper proposes an integrated
method to evaluate and grade the CLF-adopted GIS, Delphi, analytic hierarchy process (AHP), fuzzy
mathematics and comprehensive index model. Furthermore, based on data of the survey project of CLF
in Huaping, this paper carried out an empirical study using this method. The result demonstrates that
the methods are more scientific and reliable. This is reflected in the following aspects: First, the process
of evaluation and grading of CLF is combined with qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis, which
make the results more close to the objective reality. Second, the results of the evaluation and grading not
only achieved a match between quantitative expression and spatial visualization, but also demonstrated
the differences of CLF in quantity and space. Through this study, we hope that this method can further
enrich the theory and technology of CLF evaluation to some extent, and also provide a good reference
for similar study in other regions.
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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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