GG International School, Pune

Tabular data on different types of Soil

Types
States/ regions Rich Lacks
of Formation where found
Crops Features
in: in:
Soils
Mainly found in the
Deposition by Large variety of Old Alluvial
plains of Gujarat, (Bangar), New
three important Potash, Nitrogen rabi and kharif
Punjab, Haryana, Alluvial
Himalayan river lime and and crops such as
Alluvial UP, Bihar, (Khadar),
systems- Indus, phosphori phosphorou wheat, rice, foothills- duar,
Jharkhand, eastern
Ganga, c acid s sugarcane, cotton, chos, terai, sand,
coastal plains, river
Brahmaputra jute etc. silt and clay
basins
Deccan plateau-
Maharashtra, Lime, Well known
Black
Climatic Madhya Pradesh, Iron, Phosphorou Cotton, for their
(Regur
conditions and Gujarat, Andhra Magnesia s, Nitrogen sugarcane, jowar, capacity to
soil, black
parent rock Pradesh, Tamil and and organic tobacco, wheat, hold moisture,
cotton
material Nadu, Valleys of Alumina, matter rice etc. clayey
soil)
Krishna and Potash material
Godavari.
Eastern and
southern part of the
Nitrogen, It looks
Red and Develops on deccan plateau, Wheat, rice,
Iron and Phosphorou Yellow when
Yellow crystalline Orissa, Chattisgarh cotton, sugarcane
Potash s and it occurs in
soil igneous rocks and southern parts and pulses
humus. hydrated form
of the middle
Ganga plain.
Karnataka, Kerala, Organic It is humus
It is the result of
Tamilnadu, matter, rich, prone to
intense leaching Iron oxide Cashewnuts, tea,
Laterite Madhya Pradesh, Nitrogen, erosion and
due to heavy and potash coffee, rubber
Assam and Orissa Phosphate degradation,
rain
hills, western ghats and Calcium ph<6
Only drought
lower horizons resistant and salt
Red to Brown
are occupied by Western Rajasthan, Soluble tolerant crops
Arid and Humus, in colour,
Kankar, north Gujarat and salts, such as barley,
Desert Nitrogen lacks humus
increasing southern Punjab phosphate rape, cotton,
and moisture
calcium content millets maize and
pulses
Hilly and Valleys/
Presence due to mountainous areas, river Unfit for
Forest Humus
rainforest Jammu and terraces- agriculture
Kashmir fertile