It is very important to test the soil before pruning the vineyard in October, it can understand the amount of different elements in the soil, the first element in the soil test report is the pH of the soil. It should be, but recently many vineyard soils are found to be suffering from high pH, in some places vineyards have been planted even in soils with high limestone content. is up to nine, grape vine growth in such soil is not satisfactory and further expansion is not expected, grape roots with too much lime or too much calcium have a low negative charge (from the beginning), naturally, with more nutrients in such soil, grape vines grow taller. Can't, even if elements like sulphur, magnesium, potassium, ferrous are given in excess, these elements are not uptaken. The pH of the soil in which the amount of limestone is not at all or very little is found to increase, the reason is because of highly alkaline water and excessive use of chemicals, sodium, chloride, fluorides, lead, arsenic, mercury, bromide, calcium and Many elements like Nitrate are found to be in excess, but in both these types of soil, the pH keeps increasing, (in a vineyard in Indapur taluka, even though the soil type is good (non-limestone), the pH of the soil was found to be 10 in a soil test? , due to the excess of salts in such soil, the negative charge on the roots of the oil grape vines increases more than necessary and the soil becomes sticky and hard, the pH also goes beyond 7.5 and the overall health of the soil deteriorates. Due to excess salinity in the soil not leaching out of the soil, pH levels are increasing in areas where direct river or canal water is used for agriculture, many major rivers in Maharashtra are polluted. Many types of chemical salts are coming from this water, many lands have become saline (ruined), grapes are getting stuck in this entanglement, but no matter how complicated the entanglement is, there is no other way except to solve the entanglement. If a highway is damaged and there are a lot of potholes on it, then moving to another route becomes a temporary option, but if the same highway is made new without changing the location, it becomes a permanent solution. No solution, of course we can change our way of farming. That's why we are going to start the campaign "Rich Soil Only Farming" in the next episodes.
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Mr. Subhash Chandra Karale Sir
Director, SV Agro Solutions