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• High content salt.

Crops – Date palm, barley, maize, groundnut, seasame and chillies.

Mountain Soil

Areas – Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim and Arunachal
Pradesh.

• Features-rich in humus.

• Crops – wheat, maize, barley, tea and coffee.

• Fruits like apples, pears, peaches and plums also grow.

Soil Erosion

• Soil erosion is the displacement of the upper layer of soil; it is a form of soil

degradation.

• This natural process is caused by the dynamic activity of erosive agents, that is,
water, ice, snow, air, plants, animals and humans.

Prevention:

• We should not cut trees.

• We should plant more trees.