| PHSuit {soilassessment} | R Documentation |
A function for assessing pH suitability requirements for certain crops and trees
Description
This function determines the suitability classes for soil pH requirements for selected agricultural crops and forest trees
Usage
PHSuit(value, crop)
Arguments
value |
Input soil pH. |
crop |
The crop of interest for which soil pH suitability class is sought. |
Details
The input value can be map or just a numerical entry of soil pH of a saturated paste extract
Value
The output is pH suitability class for the crop. The output is integer value of suitability class: 1- highly suitable; 2 - moderately suitable; 3 - marginally suitable; 4 - currently not suitable; 5 - not suitable
Note
If the input value is raster map, then the output will also be a raster map of pH suitability for the crop of interest
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
suitability, ECSuit, fertilitySuit
Examples
PHSuit(8.4,"cauliflower")