A Study on Determination of Agricultural Use Suitability of Agricultural Lands

In this study, by using cellular analyze method according to ecological criteria, the determination of agricultural land suitability of Research and Practice Farm of Ankara University Agrucultural Faculty Farm and Haymana Research Farm of Central Research Institute for Field Crops lands, which are in Ankara province and Haymana district, was aimed. For this aim, by using Geographical Information Systems(GIS) techniques, the data layers such as some soil properties, topography and irrigation was examined for each land criterion to determine the weighted scale. The weighted scale was assigned as a grid value in the area. From the analyse, the agricultural suitability of the area was created and the agricultural suitability classes were determined. According to obtained results, the total of study area is 968.3 ha. 7.15% (69.3 ha) of this area is pond, swamp and rocky areas. 16.24 % (157.2 ha) is highly suitable (S1) and 34.30 % (332.1 ha) is moderately suitable (S2), % 30.27 % (293.1 ha) is marginally suitable (S3) areas in terms of agriculture suitability. According to soil features, 12.04 % (116.6 ha) of the area is non suitable (N) to agricultural use.