Question

What types of soils are mostly found in the Penamakuru village?
A) Loamy soil
B) Laterite soil
C) Alluvial soil
D) Red soil

Answer 1

Hint: The village of Penamakuru can be found on a path between a river and a canal. The river is River Krishna (its movement is some kilometers far to the village’s West direction), and the canal is Bandar canal. The place is extremely fertile due to regular availability of river waters for irrigation purposes. Keeping this in mind we can also note down that the soil abundantly present here would be created by that of the rivers. The soils here have huge capacity for water.

Complete answer:
Let us understand that this village is placed right next to a flowing river the Krishna River. As a result of which, the river is responsible for deposition of soil at this village. They have highly fertile soils which are extremely capable of retaining large amounts of water. The soils here are naturally healthy with many nutrients within it.

Remember that this area has a lot of clayey as well as fine ‘black soils’, now taking a look at the options we can easily pick out the right soil type present here:
Option(A) Loamy soil is incorrect because this is sandy and clayey in equal proportions but this is commonly not found in regions near Andhra Pradesh where this village is situated, so we can omit this option.
Option (B) Laterite soil is incorrect because this is a rocky type of soil that has more aluminium or iron so it cannot be considered here, it is infertile. This can be eliminated.
Option (C) Alluvial soil is correct because this is mostly found at the southern part of India, and this is where Andhra Pradesh is situated. This soil is fertile as well as retains a lot of water as required, and crops are easily cultivated by this soil. So here alluvial soil is a correct answer.
Option (D) Red soil is incorrect because this soil is present in Andhra Pradesh but this soil has a porous texture and nature on its upper part, it only becomes fertile on the lower end. So this is again irrelevant.

Thus the correct answer is option ‘C’.

Note: The village of Penamakuru gets the South West monsoon and so the period of rain here is during the months of June to the month of October. They have less rain at the time of November to around May. Agriculture is favored here through the entire year and during the time after October when rainfall is less, they generate ground water through irrigation methods and continue to water the fields when needed.