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CLASSIFICATION OF INDIAN SOILS PDF

Bharani· 2 min read08 Dec 2019Updated: 26 Oct 2023

CLASSIFICATION OF INDIAN SOILS

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Alluvial soil [43%]

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Red soil [18.5%]

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Black / regur soil [15%]

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Arid / desert soil

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Laterite soil

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Peaty Soil

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Forest soil

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mountain soil

Types of Soils	States where found	Rich in	Lacks in	Crops grown
Alluvial	Mainly found in the plains of Gujarat, Punjab, Haryana, UP, Bihar, Jharkhand etc.	Potash and Lime	LimeNitrogen and Phosphorous	Large variety of rabi and kharif crops such as wheat, rice, sugarcane, cotton, jute etc
Black (Regur soil)	Deccan plateau- Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh,Tamil Nadu, Valleys of Krishna and Godavari.Lime	Lime, Iron, Magnesia and Alumina, Potash	Phosphorous, Nitrogen and organic matter	Cotton, sugarcane, jowar, tobacco, wheat, rice etc.
Red	Eastern and southern part of the deccan plateau, Orissa, Chattisgarh and southern parts of the middle Ganga plain.	Iron and Potash	Nitrogen, Phosphorous and humus.	Wheat, rice, cotton, sugarcane and pulses
Laterite	Karnataka, Kerala, Tamilnadu, Madhya Pradesh, Assam and Orissa hills.	Western Rajastan, north Gujarat and southern Punjab	Organic matter, Nitrogen, Phosphate and Calcium	Cashewnuts, tea, coffee, rubber
Arid and Desert	Western Rajastan, north Gujarat and southern Punjab	Soluble salts, phosphate	Humus, Nitrogen	Only drought resistant and salt tolerant crops such as barley, rape, cotton, millets maize and pulses
Saline and Alkaline	Western Gujarat, deltas of eastern coast, Sunderban areas of West Bengal, Punjab and Haryana	Sodium, Potassium, Magnesium	Nitrogen and Calcium	Unfit for agriculture