Sulphur Distribution in Acidic Soil Profiles of Himachal Pradesh
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soil profile, sulphur, acidic soils, sulphur fractions.Abstract
Acidic soils of Northwestern Himalayas are showing deficiency of sulphur and this is emerging as major limitation to grow quality crops. The vertical distribution of sulphur fractions down the soil profile was studied in the major cropping system; maize-wheat, rice–wheat, maize-potato and vegetable based cropping system. Five soil profiles were selected randomly in the acidic region of Himachal Pradesh, the pH of particular soil profile and mobilization of sulphur down the soil profiles in different layers was studied by analyzing different fractions of sulphur viz., sulphate-S, water soluble-S, heat soluble S, organic-S, and total-S. All soil profiles have sufficient to deficient level of available sulphur at surface level (8.3-27.6 mg kg-1). All the sulphur fractions decreased with increase in the depth and soil profiles under vegetable cropping system have comparatively higher levels of all forms of sulphur. Among different forms of sulphur organic sulphur is predominantDownloads
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