Abstract

The increasing land use intensity without adequate and balanced use of chemical fertilizers Little or no use of organic manure have caused severe fertility deterioration of soil Resulting in declining of crop productivity Study was carried out in the belts namely sample sites 1 to20 which is a green belt of indapur Tahsil in pune district Maharashtra To investigate the fertility status of soil during 2010 and 2011 Present study show that the soil were acidic and alkaline in nature in all season Available nitrogen phosphorous and potash show low soils were not sufficiently fertile for crop production