-Major plantation crops grown on nitisols include cocoa, coffee, rubber and pineapple.
-High P sorption calls for application of P fertilizers.
-Nitisols are deep, well-drained, red, tropical soils with diffuse horizon boundaries
-A subsurface horizon with at least 30 percent clay and moderate to strong angular blocky structure elements.
-Weathering is relatively advanced but Nitisols are far more productive than most other red, tropical soils.
-Nitisols correlate with kandic Great Groups of Alfisols and Ultisols under US Soil Taxonomy.
-Widely used for food crop production under smallholding farming systems.
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