India is an agriculture-based country. Most of its people depend on agriculture for their livelihood. Soils play an important role in agriculture.
The contribution of soil in India can be described in the following way:
1. The soils decide the nature of agriculture.
2. Soils provide the basic ground for different types of crops.
3. Alluvial soils have been proved very useful for the growth of crops such as rice, wheat, sugarcane etc.
4. Indian soils show the distribution of different type of minerals. For example: There is enough quantity of monozite mineral in the coastal soil of Kerala.
5. Soils provide the basis for the cultivation of various types of vegetation.