Soil Suitability Tarlac
Soil Suitability Tarlac
Soil Suitability Tarlac
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Author(s)
Citation
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URL
1982-12
http://hdl.handle.net/2433/56110
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Kyoto University
Hermenegildo C.
GINES*
and Yoshihiro
KAIDA**
environment.
The adoption
patterns.
cultural resources.
Over the past few years The International
east Asia.
cropping
is,
however,
complex,
water enrichment.
The depen-
soil-related factors.
to location.
for implementation.
The most basic set of factors relating to the
do not provide sufficient criteria for landsuitability classification with respect to po-
ping systems.
2.
properties.
Materials
Materials used
10
( 1)
(2)
(3)
LAN DSAT
imageries
(4)
of
purpose
is
the use
(5)
cropping systems.
to 1979.
(6)
management groupings.
inces.
The
These
3.
Study Area
1.
suitability
groups
cropping
patterns.
the whole
plain,
while
land-management
Soil
Texture
for
rainfed
These
rice-based
properties
Because
soil
are:
texture
H. C.
GINES
and Y.
KAIDA:
Medium-heavy: Soils
(4)
Heavy:
Soils with a
Texture is,
Tarlac-Pampanga Area
lQ
moreover, per-
directly
Aside
determining
10
20 km
the
these
Fig. 1
rice.
establishment of
upland
crops
after
in better
production
than
fine-textured soils.
in
in
medium-textured
A medium-
sand (LFS).
(1)
Light:
In fine-textured
(2)
437
Table 1
Soil
Texture
Textural
Class
Sand
Fine Sand
Loamy
Fine Sand
Landuse
>.1'"
>.'0
=-g
~o..
Light
Suitability
for Rice
(4)
Very poor:
Soils with
Less Suitable
'"
8I-<s::l
I
and
00
ZZ
Sandy Loam
Loam
Silty Loam
Medium-light
Silty Clay
Loam
Clay Loam
Medium-heavy
Silty Clay
Clay
Heavy
pedologically
The
More Suitable
Nitrogen response,
Organic Matter
cation-exchange
Drainage
formed
capacity
organic matter.
and
moistureby soil
age
Drainexchange
Soils
Soils with no
(2)
(3)
High:
are:
(1)
(2)
(1)
Good to excessive:
Moderately good:
intern
drainage
restriction
due
to
the
grouped
are
soils).
conditions.
Poor:
(2)
into
five
soil-suitability classes:
Suitability Group I:
(1)
over2%
excessively
well
drained
(non-paddy
Medium-light,
well-drained soils.
(3)
Medium-light,
Suitability
Group
IV:
Medium-
(5) Suitability Group V: Heavy-textured, very poorly drained soils. They are
shown in Table 2.
438
Table 2 Description and Analytical Data of Soils in the Central Plain of Luzon
Soil Type
Code
Number
Color
Texture
Mottles
Surface
Dominant
Surface
Drainage
pH
OM
(%)
B-horizon
Angeles FSL
73
FSL
SiL
Gray Brown
Gray
Few
Good to Exc.
7.9
0.2
La Paz FS
77
FS
Gray Brown
Gray
Few
Good
6.2
0.1
Luisita FS
83
SL
Dk. Brown
None
Excessive
Luisita SL
84
SCL
Few
Moderate
5.5
1.2
La Paz FSL
81
SL
Dk. Gr.
Few
Good
6.0
1.0
Luisita FSL
85
SL
SiL
V. Dk. Gray
95
FSL
LFS
Brown
Tarlac SCL
89
SL
SCL
0.2
None
Good
6.9
1.8
None
Good
6.0
1.8
Few
Moderate
6.5
1.2
Bantog SiL
390
CL
CL
Few
Poor
6.0
1.5
Maligaya SiL
116
CL
SiCL
Few
Poor
7.0
1.8
Umingan SiL
99
SiL
SiL
Ok. Gray
Brown
Abundant
V. Poor
6.5
2.0
82
SiL
Gr. Brown
Few
V. Poor
7.0
1.2
SiL
SiL
Dk. Gr.
Light Brown to
Few
Good
5.8
2.5
Quingua SiL
Quingua SiCL
94
SiCL
SiCL
Abundant
V. Poor
6.0
1.6
285
SiCL
SiCL
Few
Moderate
6.3
1.7
Annam CL
98
CL
SiC
Brown
Gray
Abundant
Poor
6.5
1.8
Bantog CL
16
V. Dk. Gr.
Grayish Br.
Abundant
Poor
6.2
2.0
t!l
III
::l
CL
:<
;r;:
tl
)-
"d
III
c..
c..
'<
t'"'
III
::l
c..
117
CL
Few
Poor
5.6
1.8
Sn. Fabian CL
102
SiCL
CL
Gray
Brown
Few
Poor
5.0
2.0
Sn. Manuel CL
236
CL
V. Dk. Gr.
Few
Moderate
7.3
1.2
Tarlac CL
86
CL
CL
Ok. Gr.
Grayish Br.
Few
Poor
6.3
1.5
Sn. Fernando C
68
Ok. Gr.
Dk. Br.
Abundant
V. Poor
6.8
1.5
Zaragoza C
90
Dk. Gr.
Grayish Br.
Abundant
V. Poor
5.4
2.4
F AO-PBS [1972a] and NIA soil survey reports (mimeo descriptions plus working maps)
S.
;
-<
(')
5-i
('l
Maligaya CL
Sources:
~
~
~
0z
[Jl
UJ
o'
::l
(d)
(e)
Ribbons - meandering,
elon-
meandering river.
(5)
land-management
groups
(LMG)
described later.
areas.
Water regimes
1.
standardize
the
description
of
presented in Table 2.
(l)
Matrix/mosaic:
Matrix
was
used
For
(2)
Vegetation:
surface
Shape of elements:
(a)
boundary.
(b)
(c)
Large spots -
2 to
3 mm in
Further-
scale.
Cloudy spots -
round or oval
found.
An example of soil-suitability groupings for
(4)
Similarly, light-
H. C.
GINES
and Y.
KAIDA:
10
20 km
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I
Fig. 2
lONon-paddy soils:
clay (102)
II
III
[i]
IV
EZTI
In addition,
more
Rice
than
100 mm,
rice-based
cropping
Production
Training
and
Forschung
designed.
Philippine Bureau
of Agricultural Exten-
sion (BAEx).
These
included
are
therefore
Group II.
with
light
soil
_SSG I
materials is extensive.
.. SSG II
SSG III
l2J SSG IV
~
IDlJ SSG V
for
(1)
Towards
Fig. 3
patterns advocated
for
The
further
peanuts can
be
planted
Suitability Group I
These
are not
surface.
442
H. C.
GINES
and Y.
KAIDA:
are
The
rice crop
less
subject
m SSG IILMG I
SSG II/LMG II
should be
to
soil
moisture
Suitability Group I V
Soils of this group are the
most extensive
in
north-
this group.
40 days later.
GROUP I
GROUP II
tm GROUP HI
CJ
GROUPS IV & V
o NONARABLE LAND
5 0
Fig.5
Suitability
G roup ll
I
II
III
IV
Suggested PatternsZ }
Soils
San Manuel S (97), Luisita FS (83),
Angeles S (72), Angeles FSL (73)
Quingua SiL (5), L (109), La Paz FSL (81),
FS (77), S (76)
Luisita SL (84), FSL (85), Tarlac SCL (89),
Quingua SiCL (285), Umingan SL (100), FS (101),
San Manuel SL (96)
Tarlac CL (86), San Manuel SiCL (94), CL (236),
SiL (82), San Fernando CL (67), Annam CL (98),
Maligaya SiL (116), CL (117), Bantog SiL (390),
Bigaa CL (3), Prensa SiCL (7), Candaba SiL (69),
La Paz SiL (78), Umingan SiL (99)
Bantog CL (16), San Fernando C (68), Zaragoza C
(90), Prensa SiL (66), CL (6), Buenavista SiL (9),
CL (8), Novaliches CL (12), Sibul C (14)
Upland Crops
DSR-Peanut
GC-TPR-Mung
DSR-Peanut
GC-TPR-Mung
DSR-Mung
DSR-Ratoon-Mung
DSR-TPR
2)
20km
Comparison of the Three Classification Schemes: SSG (a), LMG (b), and NIA Classification (c)
Table 3
1)
5 10
Transplanted Rice
H. C.
GINES
and Y.
KAIDA:
Management Group I
Areas included
lands.
A variety of
used.
Suitability Group V
A reconnaissance
of Bulacan.
plantations.
Provinces.
Management
Group JI
This group
It is sug-
these soils.
40-dayold seedlings.
(coconut trees).
In
2.
Land-l'vtanagement Groupings
identified
similar.
C in Fig. 1).
Land-management
groupings
445
Management Group I V
In general,
Pangasinan.
water
before the main rice crop, followed by a shortduration upland crop, preferably mungbean.
The August
Owing
to
favorable
Except for
(Tarlac-Pampanga areas).
in
Tarlac-
the
Tarlac-Nueva
Ecija
and
conut trees).
in
micro-relief.
In
the
Tarlac-Pampanga
and
rice
in
the
[ibid.].
depressional
have expanded.
3.
446
H. C.
GINES
and Y.
KAIDA:
season.
emerge:
estates.
(1)
(2)
(4)
The general
De-
One difference
(3)
(5)
imageries,
Signifi-
its
usefulness
for
evaluating
In most of these
A land-
were compared.
the
Land-manage-
LANDSAT
imageries.
447
Five soil-
identified:
suitability
IV,
groups
(SSG)
medium-heavy,
were
drained soils.
In the other case, LANDSAT imageries
taken at different stages of the cropping
season were used to construct land-management groupings, because LANDSAT imageries have been proven to reflect directly water
regimes and actual landuse, the most important factors in evaluating rice-based multiple-
cropping potentials.
The land-management groups (LMO) correspond more or less to the various soilsuitability groups (SSG), i.e.,
SSG I
has
groups
are
more
oder
less
production
during
the
wet
season.
448
investigate multiple-cropping
potential.
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GINES
and Y.
KAlDA:
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