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]