Soil has a crucial role in addressing some of the key issues in the present context such as food security, and climate change and provide a key natural resources asset underpinning sustainable development. Land use change, soil degradation are the major problems for agriculture production and food security in Nepal. To address the issue of these problems National Land Use Project, Ministry of Land Reform and Management, Government of Nepal has implemented the project to prepare land use plan at VDC level. Soil survey and classification as well as soil fertility analysis for land use planning was done to classify the different soil types and fertility status of the area. The study was chosen Bankatawa VDC of the Banka District of Nepal. A Semi-detailed soil survey was conducted in February 2014, to delineate and map the existing soil types supported by remote sensing technique and geographical information system (GIS) analysis………………..

Soil has a crucial role in addressing some of the key issues in the present context such as food security, and climate change and provide a key natural resources asset underpinning sustainable development. Land use change, soil degradation are the major problems for agriculture production and food security in Nepal. To address the issue of these problems National Land Use Project, Ministry of Land Reform and Management, Government of Nepal has implemented the project to prepare land use plan at VDC level. Soil survey and classification as well as soil fertility analysis for land use planning was done to classify the different soil types and fertility status of the area. The study was chosen Bankatawa VDC of the Banka District of Nepal. A Semi-detailed soil survey was conducted in February 2014, to delineate and map the existing soil types supported by remote sensing technique and geographical information system (GIS) analysis………………..