Land use capacity

The purpose of the Capability of Use Charter is to divide the regional territory into areas based on the possibility of conveniently carrying out a more or less large number of the main agricultural and / or forestry crops. With reference to the possible crops in the most favored agricultural areas of Emilia-Romagna, to which the concept of maximum capacity of use (I class) has been associated, all those factors that in some way restrict the scope of choice of crops and / or their productivity have been considered. The Land Use Capacity Charter for agriculture and forestry is a database for assessing the capacity of soils to produce normal crops and forest species over long periods of time, without the occurrence of soil degradation. The classification system provides for eight classes of capacity for use defined according to the type and intensity of limiting the soil conditioning both the choice of crops and the productivity of the same. The assignment to the class is made on the basis of the most limiting factor; At the next stage, soils are allocated to subclasses and units of capacity for use. This mechanism makes it possible to identify soils that, although with different characteristics at taxonomic level, are similar in terms of potential agricultural and forestry use and present similar problems in the management and conservation of the resource.