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Agro Climate Zone

Middle Gujarat

Area
(Districts &Talukas)

Area between rivers Narmada &Vishwamitri including Panchmahals district

(1)	Whole of Panchmahals districts
(2)	Whole of Vadodara district
(3)	Part of Bharuch district (Bharuch, Amod and Jambusar talukas) and
(4)	Borsad taluka of Kheda district.

Rainfall (mm)

800-1000.

Type of soil

Deep black, medium black to loamy sand (Goradu) soils.

Soil Characteristices & Landuse classification

Most of the area cultivated some area non-Cultivated under fallow and pasture forest.

Surface colour

Reddish brown to insity soil of East dark Brown to dark yellowish brown and grey in alluvial.

Depthofthe soil

0.25 cm. in hilly area insity 90 to 180 cm

Predominent Texture

Alluvial soil. Sandy loam to loam (Hilly area), clay loam to clay in midland, floodplain and coastal saline area

Soil Slope

3.5 % in hill plateus and 0-1% and 1-3% in mid-land flood plains.

General fertility

N-low, P-Medium, K-High

Cation Exchange Capacity

30-50 me/100gm, in Baroda and Panchmahals70 me / 100 gms of soil in Broach district.

Electrical conductivity

More than 10 mmhos / cms most of the area.

Exchangeable Sodium %

Traces to more than 50% in Major area.

Order

Inceptisols; Entisols.

Sub Order

Ochrepts, Orthents, Usterts, Psamments, Fluvents.

Crops

Cotton, Bajra, Tobacco, Pulses, Wheat, Paddy, Maize, Jowarand Sugarcane.

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