|
Crop |
Rooting depth (m)* |
|
Banana |
0.5 |
|
Barley |
1.0 |
|
Cassava |
0.6 |
|
Citrus |
1.1 |
|
Cocoa |
0.7 |
|
Coconut |
1.0 |
|
Coffee |
0.9 |
|
Cotton |
1.0 |
|
Fallow |
0.5 |
|
Fibres |
0.8 |
|
Fodder |
0.8 |
|
Groundnut |
0.5 |
|
Maize |
0.9 |
|
Millet |
1.0 |
|
Oil-palm |
1.0 |
|
Other cereals |
1.0 |
|
Other fruits |
1.0 |
|
Other oil crops |
1.0 |
|
Other roots |
0.5 |
|
Plantains |
0.5 |
|
Potato |
0.4 |
|
Pulses |
0.6 |
|
Rice |
0.5 |
|
Rubber |
1.0 |
|
Sesame |
1.0 |
|
Sorghum |
1.0 |
|
Soybeans |
0.6 |
|
Sugar cane |
1.2 |
|
Sunflower |
0.8 |
|
Sweet potato |
1.0 |
|
Tea |
0.9 |
|
Tobacco |
0.7 |
|
Vegetables |
0.4 |
|
Wheat |
1.0 |
* Minimum value of maximum rooting depth used in order to prevent overestimation.
Source: FAO (1998b).
