Evaluation of soil fertility status in Chikkmaskal village of Ramanagara district in eastern dry zone of Karnataka

Abstract

Soil fertility reaction were acidic to neutral in soil reaction (4.41 to 8.33), low in electrical conductivity (0.10 to 1.21dS m-1), low to medium in organic carbon content (0.12 to 0.82 per cent), low to medium in available nitrogen (77.77to 421.47 kg ha-1), low in available phosphorus (5.04 to 22.67 kg ha-1) and low to medium in available potassium (39.60 to 302.40 kg ha-1) in almost samples. Whereas, among the micronutrients manganese (2.92 to 25.24 ppm), iron (1.34 to 17.26 ppm) and copper content (0.10 to 0.88 ppm) were higher compared to zinc (0.16 to 0.88 ppm) and boron (0.20 to 1.54 ppm) which were low in soil.