Effect of Altitude On Some Chemical Properties  of Soils of Certain Locally Available Medicinal  Plants of Bandipora District of Jammu and  Kashmir, India.

Parvaiz Ahmad Lone; Ajay Kumar Bhardwaj; Fayaz Ahmad Bahar; Kunwar Wajahat Shah

Volume : II, Issue : VI, June - 2013

Effect of Altitude On Some Chemical Properties of Soils of Certain Locally Available Medicinal Plants of Bandipora District of Jammu and Kashmir, India.

Parvaiz Ahmad Lone, Ajay Kumar Bhardwaj, Fayaz Ahmad Bahar, Kunwar Wajahat Shah

Abstract :

Bandipora district is a newly created district of Jammu and Kashmir state that was carved out from the erstwhile Baramulla district on 02-04-2007. In terms of various properties, the soils of this district have not been explored so far. To study the effect of altitude on some chemical properties of soils of certain locally available medicinal plants, three physiographic zones with their altitudinal ranges of 1500-1700, 1701-1800 and 1801-above, meters above mean sea level (AMSL) respectively were selected. In total, 131 soil samples of respective medicinal plants were collected from these three altitudinal zones, analysed for the properties such as pH, organic carbon, available nitrogen, available phosphorus and available potassium, and found to vary significantly in such properties with altitude.