TITLE:
Agro-Landscape Zoning of West Georgia for Spreading New Varieties of Tangerine in Order to Reveal Optimal Natural Conditions
AUTHORS:
Zurab Seperteladze, Eter Davitaia, Shota Lamparadze, Guram Memarne, George Gaprindashvili, Tamar Aleksidze
KEYWORDS:
Agro-Landscape, Agriresource Potential, Biometric Indicators, Control Species, Zoning, Phenological Phases
JOURNAL NAME:
International Journal of Geosciences,
Vol.6 No.12,
December
29,
2015
ABSTRACT: A landscape-multifactor
method has been developed and established in West Georgia for agroresource
potential spatial distribution regularities for Tangerine. The emphasis was
made especially for the components (relief, climate, soils), having substantial
impact on the growth and yield of citrus. Morpho-metric analysis (biometric
indicators, end of fetal maturity, starting of maturity, frost resistance,
etc.) of frost resistant Tangerine-Tiakhara Unshiu from Japan and Saadreo and
Adreula (Early ripe) has been conducted. For the application of landscape
multifactor (multi-component) method, which takes into account the role of each
component in the spread of citrus, the most important parameters are the
following: relief (dismemberment, slope, aspect), climate (temperature
inversions, sum of active temperatures, hydrothermal coefficient, etc.), soil
conditions. Using this method and morphometric analysis, it became possible
ranking of frost resistant tangerine (GIS-technologies) based on the landscape,
the result of which has been determined that the frost resistant tangerine
varieties in western Georgia has a high yield in the higher subtropical zone.