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Integration of RS, GIS and AHP for Hanoi Peri-Urban Agriculture Planning There is inverse relation between arable and unarable land - “bigger the unarable land, smaller the arable land”. The record shows the arable land in Hanoi is shrinking day by day due to urban enhancement. Each commune consists some pieces of land as arable and unarable land. Therefore, suitability scaling was performed in available arable land at commune level. The table 4.4 and figure 4.4 demonstrate 93 communes have very good arable land where other 24 and 10 communes have good and fair land for peri-urban agriculture, respectively. All communes in Tu Liem district are very good for peri-urban agriculture. The Gia Lam district, Than Tri and Dong Anh have 32, 23 and 18 communes out of 35, 26 and 24 as very good for peri-urban agriculture, respectively. About twenty kilometer (in aerial distance) far from the capital, 14 communes out of 26 of the Soc Son district have good land. Very few communes (4) are found as very good in Soc Son district as compared to other districts.  Figure-4.4: Suitability Assessment of Arable Land
Conclusion The integrated technique of RS, GIS and AHP for peri-urban agriculture planning has allocated the land at commune level with different level of suitability. The revealed results for peri-urban agriculture planning were derived geographically in respect of political boundary after prevailing intensive judgments. Therefore, the planners from Hanoi province may implement their plan in the scenario allocated land in priority basis at commune level. Every level of suitability can be utilized for different purposes for example; the unarable land if it has open space can be used for establishing the industrial estates or housing after checking their requirements. The very good category communes can be used for producing business agriculture such as fresh nutrient rich food production, cash crops and so on. Good category communes can be further assessed for specifi agriculture practices or some urban gardening purpose. The fair land for peri-urban agriculture can be used for agriculture food processing zone or medium level industries. The planners and decision makers of the Hanoi province may follow such scenario adding other necessary decision parameters while allocating the land for peri-urban uses and future urban landscape then the future urban area will be developed as environmentally safe. Acknowledgement This study was conducted in the framework of SUSPER Project (Sustainable Peri-Urban Agriculture for South East Asia) FSP-Project 2000-56 funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France. The authors wish to thank CIRAD, VTGeo and all the Vietnamese partners for their contribution to the field trip and baseline survey. References Allen, A. (2001). ‘Environmental Planning and Management of the Periurban Interface’. Key note Paper for the Conference Rural-Urban Encounters: Managing the Environment of the Periurban interface, London 9-10 November 2001. Bentinck J. (2000). ‘Delhi's Urban Growth and the Stray-Cattle Controversy. In: Urban Agriculture Magazine’. No 2, Urban Livestock, October 2000, RUAF, Leusden The Netherlands. Borne, F., J. P. Satornkich, and S.M. Anwar (2003). ‘Plant Modeling for landscape Changes Visualization, Application to a Peri-Urban Agricultural Area’. PMA03 Conference, Beijing, 13-16 October 2003. Brady, N.C. (1974). ‘The Nature and Properties of Soils’. McMillian Publishing Company, NewYork/London Canada, J. R., W.G. Sullivan and J.A. White (1996). ‘Capital Investment Analysis for Engineering and Management’. Prentice-Hall, New Jersey 07458. HSYB (2001). ‘Hanoi Statistical Year Book’. Hanoi Statistical Office. Nualachawee, K., (1996). ‘Advanced Technologies in Geographic Information System’. Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. Nugent, R. and A. Drescher (2000). ‘Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture (UPA) on the policy agenda: Virtual conference and information market’. A joint venture of the FAO Interdepartmental Working Group (IDWG) – Food for the Cities (FFC) and the Resource Center for Urban Agriculture and Forest (RUAF/ETC), http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/SUSTDEV/Ppdirect/Ppre0073.htm [Downloaded: Jan 28, 2003]. Nunan F. (2000). ‘Livestock and livelihoods in Hubli-Dharwad, India. In: Urban Agriculture’. Magazine, no. 2, Urban Livestock, October 2000, RUAF, Leusden The Netherlands. Rondinelli, D.A. (1985). ‘Applied Methods of Regional Analysis: the Spatial Dimension of Development Policy’. Westview Press, Boulder and London. Rossi, G., P.V. Cu, F. Quertamp, and O. Chabert (2002). ‘Atlas Infographique de la Province de HANOI’. VTGEO-Institut de Géologie, CNST Vietnam / UMR CNRS-IRD 9937 "REGARDS", France Saaty, T.L. (1990). ‘Multi Criteria Decision Making-The Analytic Hierarchy Process’. RWS Publication, Ellsowrth Avenue, USA. Thapa, R.B (2003). ‘Spatial Decision Support Model for Sustainable Peri-urban Agriculture:Case Study of Hanoi Province, Vietnam’. MSc. Thesis. Asian Institute of Technology
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