About the Book: Soil Suitability for Crop Productivity
Successful crop management relies on selecting suitable crops to the type of
soil present in that region. Most of crops prefer well drained medium textured
soils with optimum physical properties and neutral pH. Alluvial soils prevails
in river basins and deltas suits well for cultivation of rice, maize, groundnut,
sugarcane, sunflower, cotton etc. Crops such as cotton, sorghum, millets,
pulses, are predominantly grown in black soils which are having workability
limitations. The Land Suitability Classification is a soil evaluation method,
developed by FAO. FAO stated that Land suitability is the fitness of a given
type of land for a