Kc_Vegetables_Cucumber_Family {FAO56}

Crop Coefficients (Kc) of Cucumber Family Vegetables

Description

A dataset containing the crop coefficients (Kc) of the cucumber family vegetables extracted from Table 12 in "Crop evapotranspiration - Guidelines for computing crop water requirements - FAO Irrigation and drainage paper 56". It is a source to assign a suitable value to the argument Kc of the function ET_c.

Format

A data frame with 7 rows and 4 variables:

Crop

name of the crop

Kc_ini

the crop coefficient in the growth initial stage

Kc_mid

the crop coefficient in the growth mid-season stage

Kc_end

the crop coefficient in the growth late-season stage

Source

https://www.fao.org/3/x0490E/x0490e00.htm