Red and Yellow Soil
If you are travelling in a remote location, then you can surely see red soil. Known for it's texture and colour, it has 90.47% of non soluble materials, 3.6% of iron content and 0.7% of magnesium. But it is lacking in Calcium Carbonate. It is distributed over an area of 3.5 lakh sq.km and are frequently found in the states of Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand, Orissa and Andhra Pradesh. In Andhra Pradesh, it is commonly seen in Seeshachalam, on the way to Tirupati Hills. If you are planning to cultivate using a part of red soil, then oil seeds, potatoes and some varieties of fruits maybe the right choice to grow with. It has an excellent response to it's nutrients especially fertilizers and provides the cultivator with enormous yield of millet. This is also the kind of soil used in movies, especially in action kind of scenes.
MY FIRST POST Hello, my dear friends and relatives, This is my first post about the same resources. I hope you may understand some knowledge about resources and conserving resources and few of my simple ideas of conserving resources. Now let us move onto the ideas. ALLUVIAL SOIL So, one of the most widely used soils in India is alluvium. It is spread over an area of 15 lakh sq.km, across India. It is rich in necessary nutrients like Zinc, Magnesium and phosphorus but is devoid of urea and plant residue. It is most commonly found in the Northern plain region along the River Ganges and covers almost 40% of the land surface in that region. One of the special qualities that add to it's use is that it is well suited for canal and tube well irrigation that helps in cultivating necessary crops like rice, potatoes, wheat which is the staple diet for most of the people in Northern part of India. On the other hand, the main threat to it's quality is deforestation and s
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