Cotton,

Rice, wheat,
- Loamy - Clayey cereals,
sugarcane,
- Coarse - Black citrus fruits,
cotton,
- Dry - Very fertile vegetables,
gram
tobacco

Alluvial Black
Inland Residual soil
Deposition Deccan lava
alluvium in
formed by tract,
Punjab, of
Hariyana, UP, weathering Maharashtra,
sediments
Bihar, West
Bengal
by river Soil Soil of lava
rocks
Madhya
Pradesh

Minerals
Minerals Minerals absent-
Minerals
absent- present- phosphorous,
present- nitrogen,
nitrogen & lime,
potash, lime organic
humus magnesium
matter

Soil
Resources

Minerals Minerals
Minerals Minerals absent-
absent-
present- present- nitrogen,
lime, phosphorous,
iron oxide, iron oxide,
magnesium, organic
potash soluble salts
nitrogen matter

Laterite
Highland areas Plateau region
Prolonged
of Peninsular Due to of Peninsular
weathering
Red Soil
plateau, patches
leaching in India extending
in Madhya of
areas of
Soil
Pradesh, northwards
crystalline along Konkan
Odisha, heavy rain
Maharashtra rocks coast

Tapioca, Vegetables,
- Sandy or
cashew - Coarse rice, ragi,
Clayey
nuts, ragi, - Porous tobacco,
- Red
rice, - Red groundnut,
- Fertile
sugarcane potatoes