Vol. 11, Special Issue 9 (2022)

Author(s):
Vibha Tigga, Anjna Xalxo, Vinay Bachkaiya, Rajesh Chouksey and Vinod Nayak

Abstract:
One of the most crucial and essential components of contemporary agriculture is the careful management of nutrients. We must be aware of the geographical variations in soil fertility for this to occur. To ascertain this a study was conducted to assess the fertility status of soils of KVK farm Ambikapur and research farm, College of Agriculture, Ambikapur under Surguja district of Chhattisgarh. The soil physico-chemical characteristics (pH, EC, OC), available macronutrient (N, P, K,) and secondary nutrient S were analyzed in soil. Based on the results, soil fertility status for the various nutrients were created. Total 101 soil samples were analyzed out of which 50 soil samples of KVK farm and 51 samples were from research farm, college of Agriculture, Ambikapur. For all of the samples that were taken, the study area's soil reaction was found to be in the acidic range with an EC below 1.0 dS/m. The soil's organic carbon content was low, nitrogen was low, in both the farms whereas phosphorus was medium and potassium has medium to high fertility category in KVK farm. However in soils of KVK farm most of the samples falls under medium category for available S, whereas most of the samples of research farm of College of Agriculture, Ambikapur comes under low category.