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  • Soils for Turmeric cultivation should be rich and friable. Soils with a little higher sand content (Loams and sandy loams) are well suited.
  • It is grown in different types of soils from light black, sandy loam and red soils to clay loams.
  • It grows on light black, ashy loam and red soils to stiff loams in irrigated and rainfed areas.
  • It thrives well in a well-drained sandy loam soil rich in humus content or clayey-loam soil.
  • The crop cannot stand water logging or alkalinity.
  • Gravelly, stony and heavy clay soils are unsuitable for the development of rhizomes.In Andhra pradesh Turmeric cultivation is largely confined to five Agro Climatic zones,
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