Discuss Plinthisols as a soil commonly found in East Africa.

      

Discuss Plinthisols as a soil commonly found in East Africa.

  

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Jim
-Many plinthosols are shallow with limited rooting depth hence not suitable for arable farming but can support low-volume grazing
-Plinthosols present considerable management problems.
-Poor natural soil fertility caused by strong weathering, waterlogging in bottomlands and drought in arid and semi arid areas.
-Plinthosols with petroplinthite, pisoliths or gravels have serious limitations.
-Plinthosols are soils with plinthite, petroplinthite or pisoliths
-Plinthite is an Fe-rich (also Mn-rich), humus-poor mixture of kaolinitic clay with quartz and other constituents that changes irreversibly to a layer with hard nodules.

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