Major soil chemical properties of the major tea-growing areas in india

Pedosphere

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 316-328

  Karak, Tanmoy ^a   Paul, Ranjit Kumar ^b   Boruah, Romesh Kumar ^a   Sonar, Indira ^a   Bordoloi, Biswajyoti ^a,c   Dutta, Amrit Kumar ^a   Borkotoky, Borsha ^a  

^a Upper Assam Advisory Centre Tea Research Association   (India)

^b ICAR INDIAN AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^c Arunachal Advisory Centre   (India)

Author keywords

Organic carbon; Plant available potassium; Plant available sulfur; Probability distribution; Soil pH; Tea estates; Total nitrogen

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIOAVAILABILITY; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; ORGANIC CARBON; POTASSIUM; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SULFUR; TEA;

ASSAM; DIBRUGARH; INDIA; TINSUKIA;

CAMELLIA SINENSIS;

EID: 84924962441     PISSN: 10020160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1002-0160(15)60016-9     Document Type: Article

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