Application of Agricultural Land Cadastre in Compilation of Comprehensive and Operational Cropping Pattern of Farms: A Case Study in Isfahan Province

Agricultural lands Cadastre can help to design an operational cropping pattern for each farm and provide production planning, agricultural distribution systems, optimal soil and water management in line with the country's comprehensive and macro agricultural strategies. In this study, it was used to design a comprehensive and operational cropping pattern in Shahreza City of Isfahan Province under a decision support system by developing a multi-objective mathematical programming model. Due to the wide range of information and the necessity of their processing, as well as fast and accurate access to the results of planning model, the structure of this system was formed by integrating the descriptive and spatial database, programming platform, and optimization software package to solve the model and generate the necessary reports. The results showed that despite the area under cultivation of multi-objective model for cereals and kitchen garden crops decreased by 37% and 8%, however, cereal production decreased only 27% and kitchen garden crop production increased by 70%. This increasing in productivity has been realized due to using crop varieties, crop management, irrigation method, and land suitability of each crop in each farm in the planning structure used in this study. Due to generating details of the cropping pattern for each farm through cadastre data, application of results for irrigation planning and control of groundwater resources discharging is recommended in the study area.