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Professor of Soil Physics
SOIL FORMATION
Soil is formed from the weathering of rocks and minerals
Factor Pedogenic
1. Climate Processes
2. Vegetation Weathering
3. Relief
Addition of
4. Parent Material
Organic
5. Time matter
Leaching
Soil Texture
and Structure
formation
Upland Crops
Lowland Crops
Upland rice
Paddy Rice
Corn
peanut
vegetables
Plant need of a Soil
The soil should be able to provide the plants:
Soil Solid
mineral matter and
organic matter
45%
30%
5%
Pore Space (50 %) Soil Solids (50%)
45%
30%
5%
Soil Structure - The pattern of arrangement of individual soil particles into aggregate
and the aggregate into a soil mass.
an indicator of soil structure