From the point of view of soils, India can be called a land of paradoxes. A girdle of high mountains, snow fields, glaciers and high altitude forests in the North and seas washing both sides of the lengthy coast-line in the peninsular south: variety of geological formations; diversified climate, topography and relief give India a variety of dissimilar physiographic areas. Its lofty mountains are the highest in the world and its some river levels are raised only a few centimeters above the sea level. Temperature varies from Arctic cold to equatorial heat and rainfall from aridity with barely a few cm per annum to heavy of 3000 to 4000 mm rainfall in the North Eastern parts. Such varied natural environments have resulted in a great variety of diverse soil types compared to any other country of similar size in the world. It is no wonder that with such a soil formation, and topography, the Indian farmer took up multiple crop cultivation in one and the same agro-ecosystems....
India, the land of Soil and Agro system diversity
From the point of view of soils, India can be called a land of paradoxes. A girdle of high mountains, snow fields, glaciers and high altitude forests in the North and seas washing both sides of the lengthy coast-line in the peninsular south: variety of geological formations; diversified climate, topography and relief give India a variety of di
