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DISTRIBUTION OF SOILS IN INDIA

Soils and Regions in India

Alluvial Soil
Indo-gangetic plains, deltas of eastern coast and in the river valleys.
Also plains of Gujarat and parts of Rajasthan.

Black Soil
Deccan Plateau i.e. parts of Maharashtra, M.P., Gujarat, A.P. and some
parts of Tamil Nadu.

Red and Yellow Soil

Areas of low rainfall in the eastern and southern part of the Deccan
Plateau, slopes of Western Ghats, parts of Odisha, Chattisgarh and in
the southern parts of the middle Ganga plain.
Laterite Soil

Areas with high temperature and high rainfall in Karnataka, Kerala,
Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh and the hilly areas of Odisha and Assam.
Arid Soil

Western Rajasthan
Saline Soil

Western Gujarat (Rann of Kutch, deltas of the eastern coast and in
Sunderban areas of West Bengal.

Peaty Soil
Northern part of Bihar, southern part of Uttaranchal and the coastal
areas of West Bengal, Orissa and Tamil Nadu.