porositySuit: Assessing soil porosity suitability requirements for certain...

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Assessing soil porosity suitability requirements for certain crops and trees

Description

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

Usage

porositySuit(value, crop)

Arguments

value	Input porosity in percent.
crop	The crop of interest for which porosity suitability class is sought.

Details

The input value can be map or just a numerical entry of porosity (percent)

Value

The output is porosity suitability 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 porosity 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

porositySuit(40,"okra")

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