Characterization of Soils of Two Village of Maniyar Block, Ballia District, Uttar Pradesh

Two pedons exposed each in Badagaon and Rampur villages of Maniyar bock,Ballia district to study the layer-wise distribution of some physical and chemical properties.-1 The sand, silt and clay pedon were varied from 25 to 55 %, 30 to 60 %, clay 8 to 16 % while itwas 40 to 65 %, 25 to 45 % and clay 10 to 17 % respectively in pedon 2. Bulk density increasedwith depth upto 90 cm, water holding capacity decreased with increasing depth in both thepedon, and it ranged from 43.35% to 34.02% through depth. The pH ranged from 6.2 to 7.4 inboth the pedons but its distribution with depth different in these pedons. The electrical-1 conductivity of soils in both the soils was above to 1ds . The organic carbon content was highin upper layer of depth in soils. Calcium carbonate ranged from 2.5 to 0.4% and 3.9 to 0.4 withdepth in soils. Available N, Pand S were higher in surface layer and decreased with depths buttheir values were in higher side in pedon 2 barring few exceptions with soil depth amount ofavailable Pcontent in surface and sub-surface soil. However, it was slightly medium in soilsof pedon 2. The medium available K content was found in surface layer (0-15 cm) anddecreased with depth in both the pedons. The S content in surface soil was found to be higherthan sub-surface soil. The amount of available S was found in surface horizons (0-15 cm) 13.5-1 -1 mg kg in pedon 1, and 14.2 mg kg in pedon 2. The surface layer of pedon 1 had 13.4 cmol+ -1 + -1 (p ) kg exchangeable Ca while it was 6.4 cmol (p ) kg in P2. The exchangeable magnesium+ -1 in pedon 1 was 8.2 cmol (p ) kg at 0-15 cm and 3.2 at 135-150 cm while in pedon 2 had+ -1 exchangeable magnesium 7.3 cmol (p ) kg at 0-15 cm and 3.0 at 135-150 cm soil depth.