Being one of the most important natural resources, soil
plays a crucial role in the sustenance of life. Based on the productivity
perspective, the alluvial soils have a preference for growing a large variety
of agricultural and horticultural crops. Thus, soils developed from alluvium
deposited by different rivers flowing in Eastern India exhibited different soil
characteristics as influenced by various factors in the river basin. The
present study has been conducted in Malda district, West Bengal having alluvial
soils developed under the Ganga, Mahananda, Tangon and Punarbhaba rivers. The
detailed soil study and characterization revealed that soils under the Ganga
and Punarbhaba basins are fine-silty type with silty loam to silty clay loam
surface texture, whereas the soils under the Mahananda and Tangon river basin
are fine to very fine soils with silty loam to clayey surface texture. All the
soils were calcareous in nature. Genesis study discovered that the Ganga basin
developed Entisols, whereas soils in other river basins (Mahananda, Tangon and
Punarbhaba) are comparatively more matured Inceptisols with vertic and
non-vertic properties, respectively.
Author(s) Details
Shreyasi Gupta
Choudhury
ICAR- National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning,
Regional Centre, Kolkata-700091, West Bengal, India.
Tapati Banerjee
ICAR- National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning,
Regional Centre, Kolkata-700091, West Bengal, India.
B. N. Ghosh
ICAR- National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning,
Regional Centre, Kolkata-700091, West Bengal, India.
F. H. Rahman
ICAR- National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning,
Regional Centre, Kolkata-700091, West Bengal, India.
Please see the book here:- https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/raeges/v5/525
