Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyaiaya, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, 482004
*Present addresses: Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, College of Agriculture, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, 452001
**Present addresses: Agriculture Department, Lalmandi, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, 190001
A reconnaissance soil survey was carried out of the saffron growing and non-growing adjoining tracts in Jammu and Kashmir. The soils of the two areas have some similarity in the morphological and several other characteristics, but the saffron growing ones possess somewhat higher value of colour, a more alkaline reaction and a strikingly higher amount of free alkaline-earth carbonates. These have been classified as fine, mixed, mesic, calcareous family of Vertic Hapludalfs and Typic Eutrochrepts, whereas soils of the adjoining areas not under saffron are fine mixed, mesic family of Typic Hapludalfs and Fluventic Eutrochrepts
Saffron growing soils, soil classification, soils of Jammu and Kashmir
