Red and Laterite soils

Red Soils:

•  Red soils develop on granite and geneses rocks under low rainfall condition i.e. due to weathering of the metamorphic rocks.
• These soils are red in colour due to high concentration of Iron Oxide.
•  These soils are friable and medium fertile and found mainly in almost whole of Tamil Nadu, South-eastern Karnataka, North-eastern and South-eastern Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand the major parts of Orissa, and the Hills and Plateaus of North-east India.
• These soils are deficient in Phosphoric acid, organic matter and nitrogenous material.
• Crops Grown: Wheat, Rice, Millet's, Pulses.

Laterite Soils:

•  Laterite is a kind of clayey rock or soil formed under high temperature and high rainfall and with alternate dry and wet period,.
• Laterite and lateritic soils are found in South Maharashtra, the Western Ghats in Kerala and Karnataka, at places in Odisha, small parts of Chottanagpur and  in some parts of Assam, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and in western West Bengal (particularly in Birbhum district).
• Crops Grown:
• This type of soil is unsuitable for agriculture due to high content of acidity and inability to retain moisture.