ELEMENTS OF AEZ
The essential elements of the core applications of AEZ include :
Land resource inventory, comprising
z Analysis of length of growing period or moisture availability index
z Defining thermal zones
z Compilation of climatic resource inventory
z Compilation of soil and landform resource inventory
z Compilation of present land use inventory
z Combination of above to make land resource inventory based on agroecological
zones or agro-ecological cells.
Inventory of land utilization types and crop requirements
Land suitability evaluation, including
• Potential productivity computations
• Matching of constraints and requirements