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soilassessment (version 1.3.1)

physicalSuit: A function for assessing soil physical condition suitability requirements for certain crops and trees

Description

This function determines the suitability classes for soil physical condition requirements for selected agricultural crops and forest trees

Usage

physicalSuit(value, crop)

Value

The output is soil physical condition 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

Arguments

value

Input soil physical condition index.

crop

The crop of interest for which soil physical condition suitability class is sought.

Author

Christian Thine Omuto

Details

The input value can be map or just a numerical entry of soil physical condition index

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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physicalSuit(1.78,"cotton")

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