SOIL FETILITY OF Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal

Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal

Soils in 47 districts are low in available N, forty one districts have low in available P status and fourteen districts are medium in available P (Bareilly, Moradabad, Bijnor, Farukabad, Faizabad, Bahraich, Gond, Hardoi, Lakhimpur and Sitapur). Available K is low in twenty nine districts. Seventeen percent soils are medium in available K status, and four percent soils high K. Soils of recent alluvium, Ganga plains and uplands, central lowlands, Yamuna uplands and Kanpur districts are rated medium to high in available S. The available Zn status in Basti, Deoria, Azamgarh, Ballia, Ghazipur and Jaunpur are low. However, the soils in Ghazipur, Jaunpur, Varanasi, Deoria and Gorakhpur districts rated high in Zn status. Soils of Bulandshar, Meerut, Muzaffarpur, Hamirpur and Banda districts are highly deficient in available Zn. Availability of Fe in the soils varied in the following order Hill > Alluvial >Vindhyan > Bundelkhand >Tarai. Soils of Unnao, Hardoi, and Farukhabad are low in available Fe status.

In Uttaranchal low to very low soil available N and P status have been reported in the districts of Sahranpur, Haridwar, and Pilibhit while available P is low in in th Tarai and lower Himalayan hill soils.