Soil moisture content is an important factor for the proper development of crops, due to the close relationship that exists in the soil-plant-atmosphere system. Water is the component that participates in the interaction of the system, being the main constituent of plants (75-85% of plant tissue) and indispensable for the development of life processes. There is a potential difference between the leaf tissue and the atmosphere that generates water loss in the plant, a process better known as transpiration. The soil has the function of anchoring and storing water, air and nutrients, but it depends on the physical characteristics of the soil.
