tempSuit: A function for assessing temperature suitability requirements...

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

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

Description

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

Usage

tempSuit(value, crop)

Arguments

value	Input temperature in degrees Celsius.
crop	The crop of interest for which temperature suitability class is sought.

Details

The input value can be map or just a numerical entry of temperature in degrees Celsius

Value

The output is temperature 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

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

carbonSuit, depthSuite, fertilitySuit

Examples

tempgrape=tempSuit(23.5,"grape")
summary(tempgrape)

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