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NAL Agricultural Thesaurus
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Concept Breadcrumbs

Natural Resources, Conservation, Environment > natural resource management > land management > land classification > land capability classification > land capability class
Preferred Term:

land capability class

Definition:
The broadest category in the system. Class codes I to VIII indicate progressively greater limitations and narrower choices for agriculture. The numbers are used to represent both irrigated and nonirrigated land capability.
Concept Schemes:
NALT Full
Broader Concept:
land capability classification
Related Concepts:
Entry Terms:
  • land use capability class
  • capability class
  • soil capability class
URI:
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/333654
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RDF/XMLCreated 2019-09-06, last modified 2019-11-25