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-Vertisols can be used for extensive grazing, through smallholder post-rainy season crop production for example cotton and chickpeas to large-scale irrigated agriculture sucha as rice and sugar cane.
-Management practices for crop production should be directed primarily at water control in combination with conservation or improvement of soil fertility.
-Have comparatively good chemical fertility and their occurrence on extensive level plains make them suitable for reclamation and mechanical cultivation.
-Vertisols can only be worked on under moderate moisture conditions.
-When completely wet they are sticky and of low mechanical strength and when dry they are too hard.
-Vertisols are churning, heavy clay soils with a high proportion of swelling clays.
-These soils form deep wide cracks from the surface downward when they dry out, which happens in most years.
-Vertisols have considerable agricultural potential, but adapted management is a precondition for sustained production.
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