Definition of Crop root zone

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Crop root zone

The term 'Crop root zone' as it applies to the area of reclamation can be defined as ' The soil depth from which a mature crop extracts most of the water needed for evapotranspiration. The crop root zone is equal to effective rooting depth and is expressed as a depth in inches or feet. This soil depth may be considered as the rooting depth of a subsequent crop, when accounting for soil moisture storage in efficiency calculations'.

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