rainSuit: A function for assessing rainfall suitability requirements...

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

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

Description

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

Usage

rainSuit(value, crop)

Arguments

value	Input rainfall amounts in mm.
crop	The crop of interest for which rainfall suitability class is sought.

Details

The input value can be map or just numerical entry of annual rainfall amount in mm

Value

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

Note

This function assumes rainfall as the source of water for crop development

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, ESPSuit, fertilitySuit

Examples

library(sp)
rain=(suitabinput["rain"])
rain$rainmiaz=rainSuit(rain$rain,"wheat")
summary(rain$rainmiaz)
spplot(rain["rainmiaz"])

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