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My Notes-Pranav Sontakke
My Notes-Pranav Sontakke
My Notes-Pranav Sontakke
My Notes-Pranav Sontakke
My Notes-Pranav Sontakke
My Notes-Pranav Sontakke
My Notes-Pranav Sontakke
My Notes-Pranav Sontakke
My Notes-Pranav Sontakke
Soil type
Alluvial
(45.6%)
REGIONS
Indo-Gigantic plains
Coastal areas-sea waves
PNJ to WB
Deltaic Alluvium-Mahanadi,
Godavari, Krishna, Cauvery
Coastal Alluvium
Some in Narmada and Tapi
valleys
ORIGIN/FORMATION
River sediments
Parent materialTransported rock
weathering
Rice, wheat, sugarcane,
Jute, Soyabeans
South India
Lava spreading
Black
(Regur/Cotton) In the region of High Temp
and low rainfall
Mostly derived from 2
-16.6%
types of rocks-Decaan
and Rajmahal trap
Red -10.6%
PECULARITY /
CONTENTS
Immature
Weak profiles
Low nitrogen,
Adequate Potash,
phosphoric acid and
alkalies
Varying lime and Iron
oxide
INFO
Largest occurring
One of the most fertile in the world
Good drainage
Recurrent river floods
Older-Bhangar soil-dark,kankary
Younger Khadar soil-every year
flood-less kankary-rich
Bhabar
Tarai-Nitrogen rich, high organic
matter, Phosphate deficient Cracks in hot season. Hence
Titaniferous Magnetite,
oxygenated till great depth,
Iron-so Black colour
extraordinary fertility, so less
Low Phospate, Nitrogen
fertilizers needed
and humus
Sticky in rainy season
Cotton, wheat, Jowar, Linseed,
Tobacco, Millets, Sunflower
Red colour due to Wide Cotton, Wheat, rice, pulses,
diffusion rather than higher
millets, tobacco, oilseeds, fruits
% of Iron content
Upland-poor, thin, stony, porous
Poor in lime, magnesia, Lowlands-rich, fertile
phosphate, nitrogen and
humus
Rich in Potash
My Notes-Pranav Sontakke
Laterite and
Lateritic soil
Forest and
Mountain soil
8.67%
RJ
Some areas of Punjab,
Haryana i.e. between Indus
and Arawalis
Covered by mantle of
sands which inhibit soil
growth
Originated from
disintegration of ground
rocks or is blown from
Indus Basin and coast by
prevailing S-W Monsoon
winds
Lack fertility
Little useful for crops
If manure+Irrigation->plantation
crops
Tea coffee, rubber, Chinchona,
Coconut
wheat,
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Saline and
Alkaline
AP, Krntk
Dry part of Bihar,
Haryana, PNJ, RJ, MH
UP,
Peaty and
Marshy
Sundarban (WB)
Coastal Orissa and TN
Bihar
Originate in Humid
region as a result of
accumulation of large
amount of organic matter
in the soil
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