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LAPSE:2023.36528
Determination of Soil Agricultural Aptitude for Sugar Cane Production in Vertisols with Machine Learning
August 3, 2023
Sugarcane is one of the main agro-industrial products consumed worldwide, and, therefore, the use of suitable soils is a key factor to maximize its production. As a result, the need to evaluate soil matrices, including many physical, chemical, and biological parameters, to determine the soil’s aptitude for growing food crops increases. Machine learning techniques were used to perform an in-depth analysis of the physicochemical indicators of vertisol-type soils used in sugarcane production. The importance of the relationship between each of the indicators was studied. Furthermore, and the main objective of the present work, was the determination of the minimum number of the most important physicochemical indicators necessary to evaluate the agricultural suitability of the soils, with a view to reducing the number of analyses in terms of physicochemical indicators required for the evaluation. The results obtained relating to the estimation of agricultural capability using different numbers of parameters showed accuracy results of up to 91% when implementing three parameters: Potassium (K), Calcium (Ca) and Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC). The reported results, relating to the estimation of the physicochemical parameters, indicated that it was possible to estimate eleven physicochemical parameters with an average accuracy of 73% using only the data of K, Ca and CEC as input parameters in the Machine Learning models. Knowledge of these three parameters enables determination of the values of soil potential in regard to Hydrogen (pH), organic matter (OM), Phosphorus (P), Magnesium (Mg), Sulfur (S), Boron (B), Copper (Cu), Manganese (Mn), and Zinc (Zn), the Calcium/Magnesium ratio (Ca/Mg), and also the texture of the soil.
Keywords
land use, Machine Learning, soil agricultural aptitude, sugar cane, vertisols
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Landeta-Escamilla O, Alvarado-Lassman A, Sandoval-González OO, Flores-Cuautle JDJA, Rosas-Mendoza ES, Martínez-Sibaja A, Vallejo Cantú NA, Méndez Contreras JM. Determination of Soil Agricultural Aptitude for Sugar Cane Production in Vertisols with Machine Learning. (2023). LAPSE:2023.36528
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Landeta-Escamilla O: Tecnológico Nacional de México, Instituto Tecnológico de Orizaba, Av. Oriente 9, 852, Col. Emiliano Zapata, Orizaba 94320, Mexico [ORCID]
Alvarado-Lassman A: Tecnológico Nacional de México, Instituto Tecnológico de Orizaba, Av. Oriente 9, 852, Col. Emiliano Zapata, Orizaba 94320, Mexico [ORCID]
Sandoval-González OO: Tecnológico Nacional de México, Instituto Tecnológico de Orizaba, Av. Oriente 9, 852, Col. Emiliano Zapata, Orizaba 94320, Mexico [ORCID]
Flores-Cuautle JDJA: Programa de Investigadoras e Investigadores por México del CONACYT, Av. Insurgentes Sur 1582, Ciudad de México 03940, Mexico [ORCID]
Rosas-Mendoza ES: Programa de Investigadoras e Investigadores por México del CONACYT, Av. Insurgentes Sur 1582, Ciudad de México 03940, Mexico [ORCID]
Martínez-Sibaja A: Tecnológico Nacional de México, Instituto Tecnológico de Orizaba, Av. Oriente 9, 852, Col. Emiliano Zapata, Orizaba 94320, Mexico [ORCID]
Vallejo Cantú NA: Tecnológico Nacional de México, Instituto Tecnológico de Orizaba, Av. Oriente 9, 852, Col. Emiliano Zapata, Orizaba 94320, Mexico [ORCID]
Méndez Contreras JM: Tecnológico Nacional de México, Instituto Tecnológico de Orizaba, Av. Oriente 9, 852, Col. Emiliano Zapata, Orizaba 94320, Mexico [ORCID]
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Processes
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11
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7
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1985
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2023
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2023-06-30
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2227-9717
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