Geographical analysis

Department of Geography & GIS

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Geographical analysis

Year: 2020, Volume: 9, Issue: 2, Pages: 51-55

Original Article

CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTIC OF SOIL: SPECIAL REFERENCE IN HEMAVATHI WATERSHED

Received Date:12 June 2020, Accepted Date:07 November 2020

Abstract

Soil is the important element for the crops or plants. Crop yield is depends on soil quality and climatic condition of the region or area. Quality of the soil can be judge through the physical and chemical parameters. The present study is concentrate on chemical condition of the soils in study region. The chemical parameters are Organic carbon (OC), Phosphorus (P), Potash (K), soil reaction (pH) and Electrical conductivity (EC). Hemavathi watershed is one of the important tributary of river Cauvery. From this study it has been revealed the soil quality in the agriculture land, through these farmers can use suitable quality of fertilizer for particular crops.

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Copyright

© 2020 Bindumathi. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Published By Bangalore University, Bengaluru, Karnataka

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