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An experiment was conducted during the kharif seasons of 2014-15 under All India Coordinated Research Project for Dry land Agriculture at College of Agriculture, Indore Madhya Pradesh to study the major nutrient and other chemical properties of sampled vertisols and associated soils of Ralyawan village of Jhabua district of western Madhya Pradesh. Results showed that the Soils of Ralyawan village in Jhabua district of Madhya Pradesh were available sulphur varied from 8.77 to 29.7 kg ha-1 with a mean value of 18.3 kg ha^-1.The 76.36% village soil samples under the study were classified as low fertility class, 23.63% as medium fertility class and available iron varied from 2.36 to 10.9 mg kg^-1 with a mean value of 5.91 mg kg^-1. The status of available manganese and Copper varied from 1.34 to 4.02 mg kg^-1 and 0.08 to 0.89 mg kg^-1with a mean value of 2.7 and 0.37 mg kg^-1, respectively. Similarly, the status of available zinc varied from 0.2 to 1.94 mg kg-1 with a mean value of 0.645 mgkg^-1.
Keyword: Sulphur, iron, manganese, zinc, copper nutrient index, and soil