Finding least fragmented holdings with factor analysis and a new methodology: a case study of kargılı land consolidation project from Turkey
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2019
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Land fragmentation (LF) is a problem
restrain agricultural activities and decrease
mechanization level, production. Land
consolidation (LC) projects are done in the World
as well as Turkey to solve LF issues. Researchers
created indicators to measure land fragmentation
which is important to see success level of LC
projects. The use of these indicators is
controversial or not accurate. The core aim of the
present study is to find new land fragmentation
index and to find least fragmented holding with
factor analysis using the other indicators which
are Simmons, Januszevski, number of parcels,
Shmook and Igbozurike besides new land
fragmentation index. Kargılı Village land
consolidation project in Mersin, Turkey was
chosen as a material. Cadastral data before land
consolidation, was used to calculate value of
indicators, where number of parcels was 932,
total area was 1,741.9 ha, the average parcel size
was 1.9 ha, number of holdings was 542 and the
average parcel size was village had 932 parcels.
Data processing were performed with ArcMAP
10.6.1 and SPSS. A total of 18 holdings were
identified randomly as sample size which were sufficient to carry out factor analysis including
principle component to rank holdings (P < 0.01).As a result, new land fragmentation index found
correlated with others (P < 0.01) and ranking according to new indicator performed better than
ranking considering all indicators. In this context, it is possible to use new land fragmentation
indicator to determine priority areas for land consolidation.
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GIS, factor analysis, Land consolidation, Land fragmentation indicators, articles