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ESPSuit: A function for assessing Exchangeable Sodium Percent (ESP) suitability requirements for certain crops and trees

Description

This function determines the suitability classes for ESP requirements of selected agricultural crops and forest trees

Usage

ESPSuit(value, crop)

Value

The output is ESP suitability 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 Exchangeable Sodium Percent (ESP)

crop

crop of interest for which ESP suitability class is sought

Author

Christian Thine Omuto

Details

The input value can be map or just a numerical value of Exchangeable Sodium Percent (ESP)

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, rainSuit, fertilitySuit

Examples

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ESPSuit(8.6,"broccoli")

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