Most fertile farmlands consist of
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Alluvial soils as a whole are very fertile. Mostly these soils contain adequate proportion of potash, phosphoric acid and lime which are ideal for the growth of sugarcane, paddy, wheat and other cereal and pulse crops. Due to its high fertility, regions of alluvial soils are intensively cultivated and densely populated.
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World 15,749,300
Rank Country Land km2 % Of World
1 United States 1,650,062 10.48%
2 India 1,451,810 9.22%
3 China 1,385,905 8.80%
4 Russia 1,174,284 7.46%
5 Brazil 586,036 3.72%
6 Australia 468,503 2.97%
7 Canada 415,573 2.64%
8 Ukraine 324,791 2.06%
9 Nigeria 300,736 1.91%
10 Argentina 274,490 1.74%
11 Mexico 243,457 1.55%
12 Turkey 229,764 1.46%
13 Kazakhstan 221,059 1.40%
14 France 214,162 1.36%
15 Indonesia 201,456 1.28%
16 Iran 195,600 1.24%
17 Pakistan 190,319 1.21%
18 South Africa 147,609 0.94%
19 Niger 144,784 0.92%
20 Thailand 140,941 0.89%
21 Spain 135,776 0.86%
22 Sudan 135,600 0.86%
23 Poland 122,545 0.78%
24 Germany 115,698 0.73%
25 Ethiopia 112,080 0.71%
26 Burma 98,135 0.62%
27 Romania 90,961 0.58%
28 Morocco 84,797 0.54%
29 Kyrgyzstan 78,542 0.50%
30 Italy 77,651 0.49%
31 Bangladesh 75,690 0.48%
32 Algeria 75,501 0.48%
33 Vietnam 65,528 0.42%
34 Congo 64,853 0.41%
35 Cameroon 58,868 0.37%
36 Iraq 56,700 0.36%
37 Philippines 56,652 0.36%
38 United Kingdom 56,121 0.36%
39 Belarus 55,575 0.35%
40 Zambia 51,777 0.33%
41 Burkina Faso 48,353 0.31%
42 Hungary 45,782 0.29%
43 Syria 45,644 0.29%
44 Kenya 45,597 0.29%
45 Uzbekistan 44,710 0.28%
46 Japan 43,620 0.28%
47 Uganda 43,077 0.27%
48 Mozambique 42,576 0.27%
49 Ghana 40,507 0.26%
50 Mali 37,600 0.24%