Question

Alluvial soils provide food for more than half of the total population of India. Give reasons in support of this statement.

Answer 1

Alluvial is most fertile and suitable soil for rice,wheat and sugarcane and also it is abudantly availabe in India specially in Northern Plains So this is the reason

Answer 2

Alluvial soils in India is created primarily due to the sit deposits with the help of the Indo-Gangetic-Brahmaputra river line.

Due to the wave actions, these coastal regions receive a lot of alluvial deposits.

The soil is porous thus making a way for drainage.

It is hence applicable to agricultural uses.

They are found in many places making it the best-suited soil for agriculture.

Hence population is more and dependent on food from agriculture supported by Alluvial soil.