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Contents: 1. Soils as the Medium for Crop Production. 2.  Historical Aspects of Soil Fertility. 3. Essential and Beneficial Plant Nutrients. 4. Carbon, Soil Organic Matter (SOM) and Carbon-Sequestration. 5. Soil Hydrogen, Oxygen and Water. 6.  Soil Nitrogen and Nitrogen Cycle. 7.  Fertilizer Nitrogen Management and its Environmental Implications. 8. Soil and Fertilizer P. 9.  Soil and Fertilizer K. 10.  Secondary Nutrients. 11.  Micronutrients. 12. Zinc. 13.  Boron. 14. Organic Manures. 15. Legumes and Soil Fertility. 16. Making Fertilizer Recommendations Based on Soil Tests and Plant Tissue Testing. 17. Integrated Nutrient Management. 18. Environmental Implications of Fertilizers.

The narrative in the book is brief and to the point in a simple and easy to understand language, demanding least possible time of students. Also at the end of each chapter a few questions of varying kind are provided to recapitulate the main points.  The present book discusses the fundamentals of soil fertility conditions and the reactions that various plant nutrients undergo in Indian environmental conditions and fulfill the plant need.