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SOIL TEXTURE: PANACEA FOR AGRICULTURE

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Jai PrakashSahu, A. K. Shrivastava
» doi: 10.31838/ecb/2023.12.1.077

Abstract

The authors have made an intrinsic start in this paper to review soil texture as a panacea for agriculture. There are a lot of influencing factors to affect desired production of agriculture. Textural analysis is just like nucleus in relation to upgradation in agriculture. Soil texture is very-very important for production of agriculture. Soil texture consists of generally sand, silt and clay. It specifically refers to the proportion of clay, silt, and sand with diameters less than 2 mm. Sand, loamy sand, and gravel are the textural classes listed from coarsest to finest. Loam, sandy loam, clay loam, silty clay, loam Sandy clay, silty clay, and clay are all types of clay. Clayey soil has a high water holding capacity, as well as high plasticity, stickiness, and swelling, whereas sandy soil lacks these properties. Water, along with nutrient supply, is the most important way in which soil texture affects plant growth. There are so many important soil physical property which are discussed as: mass volume relationship of soil constituents, dry bulk density, total weight bulk density, dry specific volume, porosity, void ratio, soil wetness, mass wetness, volume wetness, water volume ratio, degree of saturation, air filled porosity, total porosity, particle size distribution, Stoke’s law, soil structure and aggregation, soil structure management, soil color, soil consistency, soil plasticity, plasticity indices, soil compaction, soil crusting, hydration, swelling, specific surface, soil tilth and tillage, soil conditioners, soil water, total soil water potential, gravitational potential, pressure potential, matric potential, pneumatic potential, osmotic potential, soil moisture, water capacity, hysteresis, Darcy's law, hydraulic conductivity, hydraulic fluidity, Reynold number, soil water diffusivity, infiltration, redistribution of soil moisture, soil water balance, evaporation, groundwater drainage, solute transport, diffusion, hydrodynamic dispersion, soil air, soil aeration, thermal properties of soil, soil temperature, soil rheology. Further it has been elaborated in detail about influencing factors which affect the production of agriculture.

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