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Maize soil requirement for land evaluation
Description
A dataset containing the soil characteristics of the crop requirements for farming Maize.
Format
A data frame with 15 rows and 8 columns
Details
The following are the factors for evaluation:
CFragm - Coarse fragment (Vol.%)
SoilDpt - Soil depth (cm)
CaCO3 - CaCO3 (%)
Gyps - Gypsum (%)
CECc - Apparent CEC Clay (cmol (+)/kg clay)
BS - Base Saturation (%)
SumBCs - Sum of basic caions (cmol (+)/kg soil)
pHH2O - pH H2O
OC6 - Organic carbon (%) - Kaolinitic materials
OC7 - Organic carbon (%) - Non Kaolinitic, Non calcareous materials
OC8 - Organic carbon (%) - Calcareous materials
ECedS - ECe (dS/m)
ESP - ESP (%)
OC - Organic carbon (%)
SoilTe - 12 classes of soil texture (Soil Taxonomy)
See Also
Yen, B. T., Pheng, K. S., and Hoanh, C. T. (2006). LUSET: Land Use Suitability Evaluation Tool User's Guide. International Rice Research Institute.