describe five features of red and yellow soil
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1) This soil is red and brown in color. It has red colour because of high percentage of iron contest.
2) They consists of loose gravel and highly coarse materials.
3) This soil can cultivated with the use of pesticides and fertilizers.
4) They extend northward in the West along with the link konkan coast.
5) Contains soluble salts in small quantities.
6) Deficient in nitrogen, lime, phosphate, magnesia and humus.
2) They consists of loose gravel and highly coarse materials.
3) This soil can cultivated with the use of pesticides and fertilizers.
4) They extend northward in the West along with the link konkan coast.
5) Contains soluble salts in small quantities.
6) Deficient in nitrogen, lime, phosphate, magnesia and humus.
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Features of Red and Yellow soil :-
1) The colour of these soils is generally brown and yellow. Red colour is due to the percentage of iron content in it.
2) These soils are a type of soil which develops in a warm, temperate, moist climate under deciduous or mixed forests and they have thin type organic and inorganic-mineral layers overlying a yellowish-brown leached layer resting on an red layer.
3) These soils are poor growing soils, low in nutrients and humus and difficult to cultivate because of its lower water holding capacity.
4) These soils denote the third largest soil group of India covering an area of 3.5 lakhs square kilometer which is 10.6 % of India's total area.
5) These soils are found in the large tracts of Western Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Southern Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Chhota Nagpur plateau of Jharkhand. Scattered patches are also seen in Birbhum (West Bengal), Mirzapur, Jhansi, Banda, Hamirpur (Uttar Pradesh), Udaipur, Chittaurgarh, Dungarpur, Banswara and Bhilwara districs (Rajasthan).
1) The colour of these soils is generally brown and yellow. Red colour is due to the percentage of iron content in it.
2) These soils are a type of soil which develops in a warm, temperate, moist climate under deciduous or mixed forests and they have thin type organic and inorganic-mineral layers overlying a yellowish-brown leached layer resting on an red layer.
3) These soils are poor growing soils, low in nutrients and humus and difficult to cultivate because of its lower water holding capacity.
4) These soils denote the third largest soil group of India covering an area of 3.5 lakhs square kilometer which is 10.6 % of India's total area.
5) These soils are found in the large tracts of Western Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Southern Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Chhota Nagpur plateau of Jharkhand. Scattered patches are also seen in Birbhum (West Bengal), Mirzapur, Jhansi, Banda, Hamirpur (Uttar Pradesh), Udaipur, Chittaurgarh, Dungarpur, Banswara and Bhilwara districs (Rajasthan).
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