This document discusses land capability classification and land suitability. It defines land capability classification as a system that groups soils based on their ability to produce crops or pasture without deterioration over long periods of time. There are 8 land capability classes, with class I soils having slight limitations and class VIII soils being unsuitable for commercial plant production. The document also notes that land suitability refers to a soil's ability to sustainably produce crops and provides information to guide sustainable land use decisions.

1.  Name : bhosale saurabh govind
 Reg no: 2020AGNY012
 Course no :SSAC-242
 Course title : problematic soil and their management
 Course Teacher : Dr M. D Jangilwad

2. SSAC-242

3. 1. The land capability
evaluation characterizes
and appraises land
development units from a
general point of view
without taking into
consideration the kind of
its use. There are defined
classes ranging from I to
VIII (Landon, 1991).

4. This classification is useful as
some soils can be suitable for
specific crops and unsuitable for
another’s; therefore precision of
land utilization types is necessary.
It cloud be expressed not only in
terms of types of crop productions,
but also how these specific crops
are produced.

5. Land suitability refers to the ability of
a portion of land to tolerate the
production of crops in a sustainable
way. Its evaluation provides
information on the constraints and
opportunities for the use of the land
and therefore guides decisions on
optimal utilizations of resources,
whose knowledge is an essential
prerequisite for land use planning and

6. Land capability Classification :
Land capability classification is a
system of grouping soils primarily
on the basis of their capability to
produce common cultivated crops
and pasture plants without
deteriorating over a long period of
time.

7. Definition. Capability class is the broadest
category in the land capability classification
system. Class codes I (1), II (2), III (3), IV (4), V (5),
VI (6), VII (7), and VIII (8) are used to represent
both irrigated and nonirrigated land capability
classes.

8. Class I (1) soils have slight
limitations that restrict their
use.
Class II (2) soils have moderate
limitations that reduce the
choice of plants or require
moderate conservation
practices.

9. Class III (3) soils have severe limitations
that reduce the choice of plants or require
special conservation practices, or both.
Class IV (4) soils have very severe
limitations that restrict the choice of
plants or require very careful
management, or both.

10. Class V (5) soils have little or no hazard of
erosion but have other limitations,
impractical to remove, that limit their use
mainly to pasture, range, forestland, or
wildlife food and cover.
Class VI (6) soils have severe limitations
that make them generally unsuited to
cultivation and that limit their use mainly
to pasture, range, forestland, or wildlife
food and cover.

11. Class VII (7) soils have very severe limitations
that make them unsuited to cultivation and that
restrict their use mainly to grazing, forestland, or
wildlife.
Class VIII (8) soils and miscellaneous areas have
limitations that preclude their use for commercial
plant production and limit their use to recreation,
wildlife, or water supply or for esthetic purposes.