Nutritional survey of Mosambi orchards at Jamsar and Lunkaransar soil series of Bikaner district of arid Rajasthan

The present study was aimed at evaluating the fertility status of mosambi orchards at Jamsar and Lunkaransar series of Bikaner district in irrigated area of arid Rajasthan. All mosambi orchards soils were found alkaline to saline in nature, EC2of all the orchard soil samples was normal. The CaCO3 content in soils showed increasing trend with depth, low in organic carbon and available N, Low to medium in available P2O5, Medium to high in available K2O content, Majority of samples were found low in available Fe and Zn content, low to sufficient in available Cu and high in available Mn content.