Quality indicator of a Vertisol dedicated to rice in the Holguín province, Cuba
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Rice is a product of high national demand and its production needs to be increased. In the province of Holguín, Cuba, a transfer is currently being built that will make it possible to have the water necessary for the cultivation of rice in an area of around 2000 hectares. When there are large areas of soil whose suitability must be evaluated for a crop, indicators are required that are feasible to determine without large costs and experimental campaigns, and that can be estimated indirectly. In this research, a soil quality indicator (SQI) is introduced. The procedure followed is explained for which an experimental campaign was carried out in an area of the aforementioned region in which a total of 14 soil properties commonly used to characterize soil quality were determined. A factor analysis was done in order to determine which of the properties contributed the most to the common variability and, based on their weights and the values of the scoring functions that evaluate the good or bad influence of their values, the values were finally calculated. SQI values that allowed us to find that only 31% of the studied area has moderate to very good suitability, located in the northern part of the studied area. The properties that were most important in the study were total nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium, sodium, organic matter and electrical conductivity.
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