SOCSuit: A function for assessing soil carbon suitability requirements...

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

A function for assessing soil carbon suitability requirements for certain crops and trees

Description

This function determines the suitability classes for soil organic carbon requirements of selected agricultural crops and forest trees

Usage

SOCSuit(value, crop)

Arguments

value	Input soil organic carbon content in percent.
crop	The crop of interest for which soil organic carbon suitability class is sought.

Details

The input value can be map or just a numerical entry of soil organic carbon in percent

Value

The output is SOC 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

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

depthSuit, carbonateSuit, suitability

Examples

library(sp)
soc1=nutrindicator["soc"]
soc1$pyrethrum=SOCSuit(soc1$soc,"pyrethrum")
summary(soc1$pyrethrum)
spplot(soc1["pyrethrum"])

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