The main characteristics of black soil are:
1. Black soil has the capacity of holding moisture for a long time.
2. These soils are the same as the Charnosam soil found in the Prairies areas of North America and in Ukraine of Russia.
3. Black soils have sufficient quantity of iron, aluminium etc. minerals and sulphur and calcium.
4. Black soils are highly fertile.
5. These types of soils need very little irrigation and manure.
6. They develop deep cracks on being dried up and become hard.
7. They lack in phosphorous content.
