stoneSuit: A function for assessing stoniness suitability requirements...

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

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

Description

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

Usage

stoneSuit(value, crop)

Arguments

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

Details

The input value can be map or just a numerical entry of stoniness in percent

Value

The output is stoniness 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

Note

Output raster map of stoniness for the crop of interest is given if the input value is raster map

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

tempSuit, PHSuit, rainSuit

Examples

stoneSuit(15,"grape")

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