Fig 1.
Location maps of the studied area.
Fig 2.
Climate data of the studied region (average of ten years from 2010 to 2020).
Fig 3.
Elevation and slope maps of the studied region.
Table 1.
Descriptive statistics of main soil properties.
Table 2.
Descriptive statistics of groundwater chemical composition.
Fig 4.
Flowchart of the proposed methodology applied for modeling crop suitability.
Table 3.
Fuzzy membership functions (FMFs) applied for scoring crop suitability criteria.
Table 4.
The evaluation scale used in the analytical hierarchical process.
Table 5.
The number of criteria (n) and random consistency index (RI) values.
Table 6.
Pairwise comparison models and weights of criteria adopted in crop suitability analysis.
Table 7.
Areas of suitability classes in the studied region.
Fig 5.
Climate suitability for the selected crops.
Fig 6.
Land suitability for the selected crops.
Fig 7.
Groundwater suitability for the selected crops.
Fig 8.
Overall suitability maps for the selected crops.