| S.No. |
Soil
Group |
Extent
(km2) |
Distribution
(States) |
| 1 |
Red
loamy soils |
2,13,271 |
Andhra
Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Karala, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa |
| 2 |
Red
Sandy Soils |
3,30,590 |
Tamil
Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh |
| 3 |
Laterite
Soils |
1,30,066 |
Tamil
Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, Maharashtra, Goa, Assam |
| 4 |
Red
and Yellow Soils |
4,03,651 |
Madhya
Pradesh, Orissa |
| 5 |
Shallow
Black Soils |
31,532 |
Maharashtra |
| 6 |
Medium
Black Soils |
4,30,383 |
Maharashtra,
Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat |
| 7 |
Deep
Black Soils |
1,12,060 |
Maharashtra,
Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat |
| 8 |
Mixed
Red and Balcak Soils |
1,62,255 |
Karnataka,
Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh |
| 9 |
Coastal
Alluvium Soils |
54,403 |
Tamil
Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Orissa |
| 10 |
Coastal
Sands |
4,534 |
Orissa |
| 11 |
Deltaic
Alluvium Soils |
87,045 |
Tamil
Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, West Bengal |
| 12 |
Alluvial
Soils Khadar (recent alluvium) Bhangar (old Alluvium) |
3,56,720 |
Uttar
pradesh, Punjab, Bihar, West Bengal, Assam |
| 13 |
Alluvium
Soils (highly calcareous) |
13,611 |
North-eastern
states, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar |
| 14 |
Calcareous
sierozemic soils |
45,080 |
Punjab |
| 15 |
Grey
Brown Soils |
1,01,572 |
Gujarat,
Rajasthan |
| 16 |
Desert
Soils Rhegosolic |
1,54,423 |
Rajasthan |
| 17 |
Desert
Soils Lithosolic |
|
|
| 18 |
Terai
Soils |
28,919 |
Uttar
Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal |
| 19 |
Brown
Hill Soils (over sandstones and shales) |
81,242 |
Uttar
Pradesh, Bhutan Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh |
| 20 |
Sub-montane
Soils (Podsolic) |
76,695 |
Uttar
Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir |
| 21 |
Mountain
Meadow Soils |
59,790 |
Kashmir
including Ladakh |
| 22 |
Saline
and Alkali Soils |
17,377 |
Uttar
Pradesh, Punjab, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu |
| 23 |
Peaty
and Saline Peaty Soils |
2,720 |
Kerala |
| 24 |
Skeletal
Soils |
79,151 |
Madhya
Pradesh |
| 25 |
Glaciers
and Eternal Snow |
29,335 |
Uttar
Pradesh, Kashmir |