Soil resource inventerization of Harangul Village, Latur District, Maharashtra

Abstract

The study was aimed at to characterize the soils of the study area by analysing their morphological, physical and chemical properties of the soils. Four sites from various micro topographic levels were selected by using satellite data along with forty surface sample sites adjusting the topography and the soil profiles samples were collected, processed and analyzed for characterization. The soils of Harangul village were very shallow to very deep (0 to 150 cm), black (10YR 3/1) to very pale brown (10YR 7/2) in colour, silty clay loam to clayey in texture, granular to angular blocky in structure. The soils were slightly to moderately alkaline, non-saline, low to moderate in organic carbon content and calcareous in nature. The soils were well fertile.Taxonomically, these soils were classified into Inceptisols, Entisols and Vertisols and at family level these soils classified as Loamy skeletal, mixed, isohyperthermic, Typic Haplustepts; Loamy skeletal, mixed, isohyperthermic, Typic Ustorthents; Fine clayey, smectitic, isohyperthermic, Calcic Haplusterts; clayey, mixed, isohyperthermic, Lithic Ustorthents. The soils were very low to moderate in available nitrogen and phosphorus, moderate to very high in available potassium and sufficient in available Fe, Mn and Cu and deficient to sufficient in available Zn content