National Land Suitability Framework · Kingdom of Saudi Arabia · The Crop Database
The 63 Crops of the Suitability Assessment
Every hectare is assessed against each crop's own tolerances. The database holds 63 crops — 56 from the FAO/ALUES reference set and 7 Saudi-priority additions drawn from FAO ECOCROP, marked ★. Each is grouped by agricultural type; the suitability engine reads the 26 diagnostic factors against every crop's thresholds.
Total crops
63 assessed
Reference set
56 · ALUES 0.2.1
Saudi additions
7 · FAO ECOCROP ★
Categories
9 agricultural types
How the database is used. A crop's suitability class comes from reading the 26 diagnostic factors against that crop's tolerance table — so the same hectare can be S1 for date palm and S3 for tomato. The ★ crops were added for Saudi relevance and validated against FAO ECOCROP; the rest come from the ALUES 0.2.1 reference database.
Cereals & Grains9
Barley
Maize
Millets
Rainfed bunded rice
Irrigated rice
Rice under natural floods
Rainfed upland rice
Sorghum
Wheat
Fruits, Nuts & Trees21
Avocado
Banana
Cashew
Citrus
Coconut
Guava
Longan
Mango
Olive
Papaya
Peach
Pear
Persimmon
Pineapple
Plum
Date palm★Phoenix dactylifera
Grape★Vitis vinifera
Pomegranate★Punica granatum
Fig★Ficus carica
Apricot★Prunus armeniaca
Almond★Prunus amygdalus
Vegetables7
Cabbage
Carrot
Cucumber
Onion
Green pepper
Tomato
Watermelon
Pulses & Legumes6
Beans
Chickpea
Cowpea
Groundnut / peanut
Pea
Soybean
Roots & Tubers3
Cassava
Sweet potato
Potato
Oil & Industrial5
Castor bean
Oil palm
Safflower
Sesame
Sunflower
Beverage crops3
Arabica coffee
Robusta coffee
Tea
Industrial & Other7
Bamboo
Cinnamon
Cocoa
Cotton
Rubber
Sugarcane
Tobacco
Forage2
Alfalfa
Rhodes grass★Chloris gayana
★ Saudi-priority addition (FAO ECOCROP) Others — ALUES 0.2.1 reference set italic — scientific name where held
63 crops · 9 categories · read against 26 diagnostic factors · FAO Bulletin 55
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