Soil Macronutrient Status and Fruit Quality of Orange Orchard in Kalmeashwar Tahsil District Nagpur

Twelve Nagpur mandarin orchards representing most of the area of Kalmeshwar tahsil of Nagpur district were selected for its fertility status. The soils were silty clay loam to clay in texture, moderate to strongly alkaline, non-saline, calcarious with high free CaCO₃ content (0.6 to 20.7%) and exchangeable Ca and Mg ranges 27.0 to 32.2 (cmol(p⁺)kg⁻¹ The yield of Nagpur mandarin i.e. 22.0 to 28.3 tons ha⁻¹ found to be optimum to high. The available N 322.8–376.5 kg ha¹, available P 22.3–34.2 kg ha⁻¹, available K 345.0–460.0 kg ha⁻¹