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Contributions of the so called inert fractions of the soil towards the release of the nutrients

Volume : 40
Issue: Apr-apr
Pages: 159 - 166
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Abstract


The earlier concepts on the activity of soil were for the most part based upon analyses of (or experiments with) the whole soil. It has long been considered that besides organic matter, the only other important fraction which assists crop growth is the clay which takes part in the exchange capacity and the fertility of the soil. The coarser silt and sand fractions were considered until recently as almost inert.

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159 - 166
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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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