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Fundamentals of Soil Science

R.L. Arya & Khalil Khan

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Soil science is a specialized branch of agriculture which associated with the different areas of soil pedology, soil physics, soil chemistry, soil biology, soil fertility, plant nutrition etc. It is, therefore, worthwhile to understand the nature and behavior of natural resources for sustainable agricultural production. Fundamentals of Soil Science assembles and summatizes pertinent available information for the students of agriculture in general and soil science in particular. This text book is a comprehensive more and will meet the growing need of soil science of graduate and post graduate students at university level agricultural education. This book covers the course contents of competitive examinations like IAS, IFS, PCS, ARS, banking services, B.Sc./M.Sc./Ph D. (Ag) admission, states and national levels of different competitive examinations in agriculture. The entire book is prepared in most simple, clear, talking language, comprehensive and short descriptive type of questions so that the concept could be easily understand by the readers in short times.

1. Introduction

2. Soils

3. Nutrient cycle

4. Soil organic matter

5. Soil water

6. Physical properties of soil

7. Chemical properties of soil

8 Biological properties of soil

9. Soil formation

10. Plant nutrition

11. Mixed fertilizers

12. Organic fertilizers

13. Green manuring

14. Method  and time of fertilizer application

15. Enhancing fertilizer use efficiency

16. Classification of fertilizers

17. Functions of essential plant nutrients

18. Deficiency symptoms of plant nutrients

19. Fate of plant nutrients

20. Soil erosion

21. Soil reaction

22. Soils of India

23. Classification of soil groups

24. Saline and alkali soils

25. Acid soils

26. Land capability classification

27. Soil nutrients transformation

28. Integrated plant nutrients management

29. Biofertilizers

30. Important definitions of soil science

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