STUDY ON SUITABILITY FOR NANG XUAN RICE VARIETY BY COMBINATION OF HANOI SOIL DATABASE AND CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIO

In land-use management, it is important to identify the suitable area for each unique plant in order to have a good development planning. The issue becomes more essential for the rapid developing city like Hanoi, Vietnam that has large amount of agricultural land after re-organization in 2008 and being under the high pressure of economic development. The knowledge of which area is needed to be preserved for agriculture is important. Moreover, the changing climate plays a significant role in the effect on plants; including varying temperatures and rainfall year to year. In this study, we tried to combine soil classification with climate condition in order to sketch the changes in suitable areas for the most important plant in Vietnamese agriculture: rice. These results could be beneficial in land-use management in order to ensure food security by preserving agriculture land out of the urbanization process.