Research Article
Explaining the Soil Quality Using Different Assessment Techniques
Table 4
Classification criteria of the final soil quality index for the MDS.
| Indicator | Soil quality grade | Source | Grade 1 | Grade 2 | Grade 3 | Grade 4 | Grade 5 | Very high/best/ | High/good/ | Moderate/fair/ | Low/poor/ | Very low/very poor/ |
| SQI | >0.60 | 0.55–0.60 | 0.45–0.54 | 0.38–0.44 | <0.38 | Li et al. [17]; Agnieszka et al. [13] | SQI | 0.8–1.0 | 0.6–0.8 | 0.4–0.6 | 0.2–0.4 | ≤0.2 | Bajracharya et al. [24]; Nepal and Mandal [9]; Manisha et al. [7] |
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