PHSuit: A function for assessing pH suitability requirements for...

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

A function for assessing pH suitability requirements for certain crops and trees

Description

This function determines the suitability classes for soil pH requirements for selected agricultural crops and forest trees

Usage

PHSuit(value, crop)

Arguments

value	Input soil pH.
crop	The crop of interest for which soil pH suitability class is sought.

Details

The input value can be map or just a numerical entry of soil pH of a saturated paste extract

Value

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

Note

If the input value is raster map, then the output will also be a raster map of pH suitability for the crop of interest

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, ECSuit, fertilitySuit

Examples

PHSuit(8.4,"cauliflower")

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