CECSuit: A function for assessing Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC)...

In soilassessment: Assessment Models for Agriculture Soil Conditions and Crop Suitability

A function for assessing Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC) suitability requirements for certain crops and trees

Description

This function determines the suitability classes for Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC) requirements of selected agricultural crops and forest trees

Usage

CECSuit(value, crop)

Arguments

value	input Cation Exchange Capacity (Cmol(+)/kg).
crop	crop of interest for which CEC suitability class is sought

Details

input value can be a map or just a numerical entry of CEC (cmol(+)/kg)

Value

The output is CEC suitability class for the crop. The output is an integer value for suitability class: 1- highly suitable; 2 - moderately suitable; 3 - marginally suitable; 4 - currently not suitable; 5 - not suitable

Note

The output raster map of CEC suitability is given if the input value is raster map

Author(s)

Christian Thine Omuto

References

Sys, C., Van Ranst, E., Debaveye, J. and Beerneaert, F.1993. Land evaluation: Part III: Crop requirements. Development Cooperation, Belgium.

Naidu, L.G.K., Ramamurthy, V., Challa O., Hegde, R. and Krishnan, P. 2006. Manual, Soil-site Suitability Criteria for Major Crops, National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning, ICAR, Nagpur, India

FAO Crop Suitability Requirements: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/home

See Also

suitability, tempSuit, rainSuit

Examples

CECSuit(22.4,"pineaple")

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