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Arid Land Geography ›› 2024, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (9): 1555-1565.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2023.713

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Quality evaluation and obstacle diagnosis of farmland soil in Shawan City of Xinjiang based on minimum dataset

GAO Haifeng(), WANG Xiyuan(), WU Haoying, LEI Haifeng   

  1. College of Ecology and Environment, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, Xinjiang, China
  • Received:2023-12-19 Revised:2024-01-23 Online:2024-09-25 Published:2024-09-24
  • Contact: WANG Xiyuan E-mail:fgh159637824@163.com;wangxy@xju.edu.cn

Abstract:

In order to evaluate the soil quality status of farmland in Shawan City of Xinjiang, China and to clarify the key influencing factors on productivity level, and promote the construction of high standard farmland in Shawan City, this paper build the minimum dataset of farmland soil quality with principal component analysis and cluster analysis, and combined with an obstacle factor diagnostic model, the characteristics and obstacle factors of agricultural soil quality in the Shawan area were revealed. The results led to three main conclusions. (1) There were significant differences between the results of soil quality evaluations using different datasets. The soil quality indices determined using the minimum dataset based on cluster analysis and using the total dataset significantly positively correlated (R2=0.591, P<0.1),the Nash effective coefficient was -4.923, indicating that the minimum dataset based on cluster analysis gave better results than the minimum dataset based on principal component analysis. This indicated that the minimum dataset based on cluster analysis was more suitable than the minimum dataset based on principal component analysis for replacing the total dataset when evaluating farmland soil quality. (2) The overall soil quality in the study area was found to be moderate and better, and the soil quality indices were 0.130-0.641. Farmland in Shawan City was divided into five classes using the soil quality index minimum dataset. Class I soil was mainly in the northern and northwestern parts, and class V soil was mainly in the southeastern part of the study area, indicating that the soil quality was generally high in the northwest and low in the southeast. (3) There were obvious obstacles in the research area, which low organic matter contents, insufficient nitrogen, and high electrical conductivities were the main obstacles. The research results can be used to effectively improve the soil quality of local farmland. It is recommended that in the process of farmland management, not only applying organic fertilizer, take measures such as deep tillage, planting weeds, covering straw, and plastic film to improve the soil.

Key words: principal component analysis, cluster analysis, minimum dataset, soil quality evaluation, obstacle