Final-Technical-Assessment-N-Productive-Land-v2.pdf [pdf, 2.3 MB]
...based on geology, soils, slope, erosion, and vegetation. In general, classes 1 to 4 contain land that is suitable for arable production, classes 5 to 7 are suitable for agricultural/pastoral production and class 8 is only suited for retirement or protection forestry. 4. For this assessment the New Zealand Land Resource Inventory ("NZLRI") has been used to ascertain the highly productive and highly versatile land. Highly productive land is all the land that is LUC classe...