write a short note on black soil
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Black soils, locally called regard or black cotton soils, and internationally known as 'tropical black earths' or 'tropical chernozems' have been developed by the weathering of the Deccan lava in majorparts of Maharashtra, western MadhyaPrades (Hoshangabad, Narsinghpur, Damoh, Jabalpur, Raisen and Shahdol districts), Gujarat (Surat, Bharuch, Vadodara, Kheda, Sabarkantha and Dang districts), Andhra Pradesh (Adilabad, Warangal, Khammam, Mahbubnagar, Kurnool, Guntur and Karimnagar districts), Karnataka (Bijapur, Dharwar, Gulbarga, Bidar, Belgaum, Raichur, Bellari and Chitradurga districts), Rajasthan (Kota, Bundi, Sawai Madhopur, Bharatpur and Banswara districts), Tamil Nadu (Ramnathpuram, Tirunelvelli, Coimbatore, Madurai and South Arcot districts) and Uttar Pradesh (Jalaun, Hamirpur, Banda and Jhansi districts).
fine textures , clayey in nature , highly retentive of water,. black since it is formed from lava rocks