physicalSuit: A function for assessing soil physical condition suitability...

In soilassessment: Soil Health Assessment Models for Assessing Soil Conditions and Suitability

A function for assessing soil physical condition suitability requirements for certain crops and trees

Description

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

Usage

physicalSuit(value, crop)

Arguments

value	Input soil physical condition index.
crop	The crop of interest for which soil physical condition suitability class is sought.

Details

The input value can be map or just a numerical entry of soil physical condition index

Value

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

Note

Should the input value be raster map, then the output will also be a raster map of soil physical condition 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, PHSuit, fertilitySuit

Examples

physicalSuit(1.78,"cotton")

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