Problem Soils: Constraints and Management

✍ Scribed by K. C. Manorama Thampatti

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 172
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This is a unique book that deals with the problem soils, their constraints and management in the Indian context. The book starts with the introduction on problem soils and the classification of these soils are included there under. In India, there is wide spread occurrence of soils with different types of constraints for crop production. Such soils are popularly called as “Problem Soils”. Cultivation in these soils is not so easy as several problems have to be tackled during cultivation. It may be either soil droughtiness or acidity or salinity etc. An attempt has been made in this book to cover most of the problematic soils in India. The classification of problem soils has been done based on the limitations they possess and the most dominant limitation is taken into consideration for grouping it under a particular class. Here five broader classes have been identified viz., soils with climatic problems; soils with physical problems; soils with chemical problems; soils with biological problems and soils with problems due to anthropogenic reasons.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Problem Soils: An Introduction
2. Soils with Climatic Problems
1. Cold soils (Frozen soils)
2. Dry soils / arid soils
3. Soils with Physical Problems
1. Steep soils
2. Shallow soils
3. Poorly or imperfectly drained or slowly permeable soils / submerged soils
4. Surface crusted soil
5. Soils with subsoil hardpan
6. Highly permeable soils
7. Heavy clay soils / heavy cracking soils (Vertisols)
8. Fluffy paddy soils
9. Organic soils
4. Soils with Chemical Problems
1. Acid soils
2. Acid sulphate soils (Cat clays)
3. Laterite and associated soils
4. Red Soils
5. Salt affected soils
5. Soils with Biological Problems
1. Soils with low organic matter
2. Soils with low biological activity
6. Soils with Problems Due to Anthropogenic Reasons (Degraded Soils)
1. Eroded Soils
2. Nutritionally poor soils
3. Waterlogged soils
4. Contaminated soils
5. Mined degraded soils (Mine soils)
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