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erosionSuit: Assessing erosion risk for certain crops and trees

Description

This function determines risk classes for erosion tolerance for selected agricultural crops and forest trees

Usage

erosionSuit(value, crop)

Value

The output is erosion risk class for the crop. The output is integer value for suitability class: 1- high; 2 - moderate; 3 - low; 4 - very low

Arguments

value

Input erosion risk in ton/ha.

crop

The crop of interest for which erosion risk class is sought.

Author

Christian Thine Omuto

Details

The input value can be map or just a numerical entry of erosion risk in g/cm3

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

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erosionSuit(1.78,"cotton")

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