Factors Influencing the Suitability of Pomelo Area in Ban Thaen District Chaiyaphum Province
Keywords:
Geographical Indication, Spatial relationship, Value-added, land suitability assessmentAbstract
Government policy aimed at enhancing the economic potential of the country. By enhancing the capabilities of Thai entrepreneurs at all levels by developing the local economy, promoting local trade and investment, strengthening the competitiveness that will push Thai GI products to be known in foreign countries. Geographical Indication (GI) is intellectual property occurred when there is a connection between nature and humans. The objectives of the study were 1) to study the geographical characteristics of pomelo planting areas 2) to analyze the land suitability assessment for pomelo areas and 3) to analyze the spatial relationship between geographic factors and land suitability for pomelo areas. Herein, topographic, meteorology, and hydrology data were used to extract and analysis land suitable for pomelo areas with a simple weighting analysis method and the derived results were applied to analyzing the spatial relationships with multiple linear regression analysis. Results revealed that 8 main factors of geographic characteristics for suitable area for pomelo planting include (1) slope: sl, (2) average annual rainfall: r, (3) soil drainage: (dr), (4) Soil pH, (5) Cation Exchange Capacity: CEC, (6) available nitrogen: N, (7) available phosphorus: P and (8) available potassium: K. The land suitability of the pomelo cultivation is 280.42 km2 or 87.27% of the study area. The most important positive variable for land suitability is available phosphorus while the most significant negative variable is available potassium. This research will be taking part to describe the distinctive characteristics of geographic locations and the physical composition of pomelo plantation areas to exhibit Ban Thaen pomelo has a unique feature that is different from the pomelo grown in another area. Registration of Geographical Indications of Ban Thaen pomelo will raise the standard of agricultural goods to have value-added. This will drive the provincial economic stimulation and increase the competitiveness of agricultural goods nationally and internationally.
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