Soil, plant and water are the major ingredients of agriculture system. Analysis of Soil and plant as natural resources is of utmost importance for conservation strategies. To make things easy for students, we have attempted to bring all pertinent information together in this handbook. It has been compiled to give students through training the principles and methods of soil and plant analysis along with calculations and conservations of the values. The handbook is equipped with the estimation of mechanical and chemical analysis of soil and plant samples. The principles involved in various determinations have been explained and substantiated with modern concepts, giving chemical equations, wherever necessary. The handbook contains simple and reliable procedure which can be useful to students, teachers and scientists of agricultural science.
Dr. C. Seenappa – Associate Professor, Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, GKVK, Bengaluru – 560065.
Dr. K.N. Kalyanamurthy – Professor and Head, Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, GKVK, Bengaluru – 560065.
Dr. M.R. Anand – Assistant Professor, Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, GKVK, Bengaluru – 560065.
Mr. Madam Vikramarjun – Sr. M.Sc. (Agri.), Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, GKVK, Bengaluru – 560065.
