Hello friends!
How are you? I hope you all are doing good! I'm good tooo. I'm an agriculture student, currently studying is.c agriculture. Usually I bring informative content as Today also I'm here with a informative content but it is based on what we have done! Before yesterday we have done soil testing in college lab by collecting samples from own field. I will explain you briefly through this article that we have done and the way we carryout this operation!
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At first let's know, What is soil testing and why it is done??
Soil testing refers to the testing of the soil capabilities to grow a certain type of a crops. Generally it is done to know about the pH of soil. pH of soil determines does desire crop can be grown or not. As through soil testing we will known about the deficiency of nutrient in the soil and by knowing it, we will consider which nutrients to apply in it.
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Now let's come to the soil testing day!
It was a sunny day,We all came to the college. One of my friend from My team, he started saying "Let's do the soil testing practical in the field". My all team members agreed with his saying and we started doing soil testing practical.Firstly, we have taken soil sub samples in zigzag method from the field.Then removing of weeds and destroying of clods is done manually and mixed all sub samples, we just required little samples for testing so, we removed soil diagonally....for 2 times. Finally, soil samples got ready and we moved to the chemistry lab, we made a solution of a soil by mixing with a distilled water in a beaker. Then we dissolved pH paper in it. After 5 sec got reading that our soils has 8pH it means it is alkaline soil.. So we have given suggestions to apply gypsum to our lower batch to make a slightly acidic because not all but mass number of plant require pH range of 6.5 slightly acidic!
Thankyou so much for giving your valuable time to read my article!