Agriculture
Resource Management :: Soil Related Constraints

TREES AND CROPS SUITED FOR PROBLEM SOILS

Soils

Tree sp.

Crops

 

Saline soils

Casuarina , Prosopis juliflora,
Acacia nilotica, Terminalia arjuna,
Butea monosperma, Eucalyptus,
Achres sapota and
Glyricidia

Paddy, Ragi, Sunflower, Sorghum, Green manure.

 

Alkaline soils

Sesbania. Dalbergia, Prosopis, Albizzia,
Neem, Pongamia, Glyricidia.

Rice, Cotton, Millets, Medicgo, Berseem,
and Sugar cane

 

Acid soils

Eucalyptus, Teriticornis,
Mango, Guava,
and Anilotica sp.,

Paddy, Wheat, Sorghum, Cotton, Vegetables and Sugarcane

 
 

Water Logged Soils
 

Terminalia arjuna,
jamun,
bamboo

Spontaneum,
Vetiver

 

 

Calcareous soils

Acacia
Leucopholea,
Swietenia sp. Tamarind,

Paddy, Sorghum, Sugar cane and Castor

 

Gravel soils

Acacia planifrons,
A.lebbeck and Dalbergia sp.

Sorghum,
Castor and
other millets

 


Tolerance of Crops to Salinity and Sodicity

Saline Soils

Sodic Soils

Tolerant

Semi - tolerant

Sensitive

Tolerant

Semi - tolerant

Sensitive

Barley
Sugar beet
Rape
Cotton

Pomegranate
Wheat
Rice
Sorghum
Maize
Sunflower
Potato

Citrus
Gram
Peas
Groundnut
Lentil
Cowpea

Rice
Sugar beet
Paragrass
Sugarcane
Cotton
Millets

Wheat
Barley
Oats
Peas
Maize
Gram
      

Groundnut
Cowpea
Lentil